WEBLIOGRAPHY ON MULTIMEDIA SECTORS

by

Daniel Arthur Laprès


last updated June 30, 2000

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TABLE OF CONTENTS



TELECOM
General
Wireless
EU telecom
France Telecom
NAFTA telecom
MCI Worldcom
Lucent
ATT
Iridium
Asian telecom
SATELLITE

AUDIOVISUAL

COMPUTER SECTOR

ELECTRONICS AND TECHNO-CONVERGENCE

Telecom - general

Telecom - useful links

Telecommunication-related web sites
Basic Telecoms background
Telecom Sites in the World
Telecom Web Resources
Telecom Information Resources
Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
TeleGeography Announces New Guide for Buyers of International Telecom Bandwidth
International Bureau Issues Annual Report on Developments in International Telecommunications Markets to Senator Hollings
Communications Policy and Practice
telecoms country profiles
Telecom Research and Consulting

Telecom news

Phone companies sue AT&T, Sprint
Nortel drops billions on optics
CopperCom cuts deals to push voice-over-DSL technology
Guide des indicateurs pour les télécommunications
AT&T, BT Move Closer To Alliance Launch
Vodafone Has Vivendi on the Line
New Phones Connect You to Everything
Motorola Profits Soar
Story: Capitalism's Failure: How America is Falling Behind in Race for Fast Access
Microsoft Forays Into Net Phone Apps
Telecom Merger Conditions Cause Stir
Qwest's bid for US West shakes Wall Street
Microsoft touts telecom ties
New powerhouse in telecom
TeleCompetition Report - May 13, 1999
Tele.Com Online Home Page
Startups - Optical networking
Talk is cheap: 6 Net phones make phone calls for free
Microsoft enters phone market
Birth of a telecom giant
Net telephony race is on
Net telephony race is on
Deregulating Telecommunications - Heritage
Net phones boom, unregulated
Confusion reigns in wireless market

Wireless

Wireless Phones Will Rule
Italy Dialed in to Wireless Net
WAP Can Untether the Web
Wireless deals put pressure on competitors to grow
Stepping from the office into a wireless world
Amazon opens Web portal for wireless users
Make Way for M-Commerce
The race to rule mobile
Intel invests $100 million in wireless firm
Profit squabble mars wireless Web future
Lucent Goes The Wireless Last-Mile
Wireless carriers struggle to meet demand
MCI WorldCom acquiert SkyTel pour $1.8 billion
Wiring a global playground
C&W struggles to establish U.S. presence
EarthLink to sell high-speed access with MCI WorldCom
Wars in the wireless world
MCI makes new wireless cable move
MCI WorldCom raises CAI Wireless bid
Sprint to acquire broadband and wireless company
Technology - The Internet from anywhere
SBC extends wireless reach
Wireless giants ink $56 billion deal
ATT gets excited too
Companies - Wireless wonderland
Wireless internet
MSF makes wireless leap 11/98
Lucent invests in wireless chips 11/98
ATT ups wireless investment 10/9
Wireless ISPs go to multipoint 9/98
Web delivery over wireless 9/98
IBM goes wireless 7/98
MCI Deal Makes C&W An International Player
IBM goes wireless 7/98
C&W preemptive strike against MCI 6/98
Sprint's big bang 6/98
EU blasts MCI-Wordlcom merger
GTE sues to stop World Com - MCI merger 5/98
MCI loises $391 m - 2/1/98

EU telecom

Institut fÙr Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht - ITM
Deutsche Telekom gets dumped
Coming to Europe: phone wars 11/98
I*M Information Market Europe
EU on-line content rules
EU Telco deregulation on track 8/97

France Telecom

France Telecom Plays IP-Telephony Catch-Up
Bienvenue sur le site de France Telecom
France Telecom at a Glance
France Telecom: What's New
Minitel and Audiotel still have a bright future
Minitel Home Page
France's Minitel Heads Toward The Web
Wanadoo | Tout Minitel
France Telecom Worldwide | Asia

NAFTA telecom

Japan giant NTT eyes U.S. expansion
AT&T Profits Fall
Lucent income quadruples on sales, chip demand
NAFTA: Case Study - Telecommunications
Bell Atlantic CEO calls for greater deregulation
Bells argue for long distance business
ATT buys into local markets
Are local US phone markets open 5/98
Pac Bell to hike fees, cap access
Sprint's big bang 6/98
Bells argue for long distance business
Are local US phone markets open 5/98
Pac Bell to hike fees, cap access
Cisco buys more phone expertise 11/98
US West to charge for net calls
3Com Down, But Not Out
EarthLink gets boost from CompUSA deal
FCC opens US market to global competition 27/11/97
MCI Worldcom
Judge clears MCI asset sale
GTE sues to stop World Com - MCI merger 5/98
EU blasts MCI-Wordlcom merger
MCI Deal Makes C&W An International Player
MCI loises $391 m - 2/1/98
MCI WorldCom revenues surge
MCI Worldcom digs Europe 10/98
MCI WorldCom Unveils On-Net
Layoffs at MCI Worldcom 12/98
C&W begins global push with MCI
Worldcom builds on MCI 11/98

Lucent

Lucent to unveil new communications chip
Fortune.com: 2.15.99 Lucent vs. Cisco, Round One
ATT boosted by wireless
Lucent posts record profit
Lucent profit surges 10/98
Lucent's BLAST tech for wireless
CNET News.com - Motorola to buy Lucent's cellular unit

 

ATT

Will AT&T blot out AOL?
CNET News.com - AT&T bests forecasts, teams with NTT
Senator slams AT&T cable bid
CNET News.com - AT&T bests forecasts, teams with NTT
AT&T One Rate Online
AT&T merger deal questioned
CNET News.com - AT&T racing for the "last mile"
ATT exteds IP business 10/98
ATT chatting it up
ATT earnings excel
ATT buys IBM's global network 12/98
ATT buys $900m in cable gear to equip TCI 10/98

Iridium

Iridium beeps around the world 11/98
Iridium cuts jobs - stock falls
Iridium cuts its prices
Iridium won't go bankrupt yet
Iridium- Edsels in the sky
Motorola's problems in iridium
Can Iridium Satellite Service Achieve a Soft Landing?

Asian telecom

NTT breakup
Keidenran Telecommunications Policy Statement 4/98
Korea: Telecommunications Industry
HK Telecom loosens up licences 9/98
Financial Express: Hong Kong telecom market liberalisation urged

COMPUTER SECTOR

Microprocessors

Intel whacks Pentium III, Celeron prices
Story: Has Intel Fallen Behind in the Chip Race? What's Ahead for Personal Computers
AMD undercuts Intel with lower chip prices
TI Outlines Big Shipment Plans For ADSL Modem
Semiconductors Are Smokin'
56 a Bit Short of Secure
Chips aim to make passwords obsolete
Chip dip over in 99
Chipmakers: is the wrost over? 10/98
Taiwan chip plant halts 9/98
Fujitsu designs Sparc chip
Year 2000 Conversion
Intel ships new low-cost chip
Story: Beyond the Next Generation Internet: A Look at Computing's Future
Grove not practicing what he preached
Intel demos 700-MHz Pentium II
Intel's Grove steps down 4/4/9/98
Intel ad subsidies raising eyebrows
Grove turns Intel toward low-cost PCs
Intel gets serious about low-cost chips
Memory chip prices fall

Hardware

Dell Shifts Focus to 'Core' Web
Caldera Set to Ride Linux Wave
TI Chief: 'PCs Are History'
And the PC winner is: Dell Computer
Computer Helps Blind Man 'See'
What Dell Did Right. What Compaq Did Wrong (And What Your Industry Can Learn From It)
Compaq Holds its Ground
IBM: The PC is dead
FORTUNE.com: 12.21.98 Is the PC Dead? Not Even Close
Dell earnings squeeze by 11/98
NEC Chairman resigns in scandal 10/98
NEC sees hefty loss 9/98
The Year 2000 Information Center
Lab Tests Reveal the Best PC (and the Worst!)
Kiss Your Sweet PC Good-Bye: The End of the PC Era
Dell leads satisfaction survey
Dell, Compaq clean their clocks
*PC Magazine's* Products of the Year
Compaq, Dell beef up servers
Dell cuts notebook, PC prices
Dell bundling DSL modems
Dell gets down to business
Can Dell do it again?
'99 so so for computer makers
Net access for Dell 9/98
Big Blue To Offer Hacker Insurance Services
PC market grows by 14-15% 10/98
Dell sells $509 million in stock 10/98
Dell Tops Nasdaq Short List
Sky falling on PC industry? 28/10/98
PC sales in Europe skyrocket 10/98
Home PCs
COMPUTERS.COM - review of Home PCs
Compaq's big loss 2*q 98
Story: The Fastest PCs Yet: It's More Than the Megahertz
Story: Consumer PC Market Booms 3/4/98
Story: Corporate PC Demand Stays Strong Through February
Ingram to make PCs for Big 3
Online PC sales expand
HP passes Sun in workstations
Compaq to buy Digital for $9.6 billion
Compaq ousts IBM from RadioShack
Compaq and Radio Shack
Online PC sales look strong
PC sales up in Asia despite turmoil

Software

Windows, Windows, Everywhere
The ASP Explosion: How to Avoid the Shrapnel
First year no honeymoon for Sun-Netscape venture
About open source
Microsoft taps Compaq to attract Net subscribers
Linux poses increasing threat to Windows 2000
Linux sales surge past competitors
What They're *Not* Telling You About Speech Recognition
Personal finance software evaluated 11/98
Comdex rumor mill 11/98
New internet protocol sees light 11/98
Lessons From Comdex: Five Dangerous Internet Legends
Jesse's Comdex Trend Spotter: 10 Products to Watch
How to Inoculate Yourself Against the Y2K Epidemic
How to Find the Best Products of '98 -- Fast
Smart Shopping Guides: Mac vs. Windows
Intuit falls as losses deepen
Live Picture out of focus?
Macromedia's comeback
Comdex '98: five top trends
Weak demand, low prices wreak havoc
Web portals play leapfrog 9/98
IBM Software e-Commerce
How a Little-Known Proposal Endangers Every Software Buyer. (And What to Do About It.)
HP opts for Java home brew
Story: Where Java Can Win. And Where It Is Certain to Lose
AUDIOVISUAL
Yahoo - AT&T, MediaOne offering cable Internet divestiture
Towards Digital eQuality
Digital Music for the Living Room
Digital Music via Satellite and Cable from DMX MUSIC
DIRECTV: America's Leader in Digital Home Entertainment!
Viewers take director's chair in interactive film
Net film firm taps Gnutella for video sales
gnutella: Welcome to gnutella
The MP3 of movies?
MuchMusic | Alternative Medium
MSF buys 60% of Japanese cable operator
MP3 Isn't Just For Music Anymore
RealNetworks, Sun expand technology relationship
TV firms push digital spectrum as high-speed network
Broadband Roadmap: How Fast, How Much, How Soon
True Consciousness of Stream
Broadcasters to send data over digital TV airwaves
MP3 Revolution: Rhetoric or Real?
AUX ÄTATS-UNIS, LES CŒBLO-OPÄRATEURS OUVRENT LEUR RÄSEAU, PAS EN France
He Wants His My.mp3.com
FreeDSL goes live
Internet Radio Homing In
Some MP3 artists scraping by without labels
WWW.COM - Welcome
Up-Close 'Digital Divide' Q&A
Bandwidth could be next auction gold mine, analysts say
La t élévision interactive redessine l'avenir du petit écran
How to choose a videocam?
EMI, TWX Making Merger Music
The Net - Film industry fights DVD decryption sites
War Ends and DVD Wins
In Europe, Media Companies Are Seeing Phones as the Future
Satellite Radio Makes Reception Problems Obsolete
It's the End of TV As We Know It
Dell topples Compaq in U.S. market share
WWW.COM - Welcome
Internet Radio Homing In
Do we need all this bandwidth
Convergence between Telecommunications and Audiovisual
Japan puts breaks on HD TV 6/98
Super-Fast Cable Modems Today?
The Industry Standard: Building a $9 Billion Network
Motorola debuts set-top computer
Lucent's new fibre waves 6/98
Amazing! Explosion of Internet Radio Brings the World to Your PC
Direct TV buys Prime Star
Murdoch to Buy Control of FX, Sports Networks
Murdoch: old media live on
Amazing! Explosion of Internet Radio Brings the World to Your PC
Direct TV buys Prime Star
Murdoch to Buy Control of FX, Sports Networks
Murdoch: old media live on
Media giants turn to e-commerce
Cable operators talking digital - finally / 11/98
Dishing out digital TV
Soccer kicks off digital TV wars
Politics of digital TV in US
Fuzzy reception for Euro digital tv 9/98
CNET News.com - Disney and Infoseek raise the curtain on Go
CNET News.com - Can Disney still be Disney online?
Trouble Deepens for Traditional Media. And it's Only Going to Get Worse. Here's Why

SATELLITE

Iridium, We Hardly Knew Ye
Satellite Breakthrough? MSN Launches Two-Way Access Service
Microsoft To Offer Satellite Web Service
Internet Satellites Going Cheap
EUTELSAT SERA PRIVATISÄE L'ANNÄE PROCHAINE
Iridium - pie in the sky
Huge net satellite deal 6/98
Global Star adds up damages from satellite loss 9/98
Japan Jump-Starts E-Books Via Satellite
Eye on BSkyB 9/98
CNET News.com - PanAmSat suffers satellite setback

ELECTRONICS AND TECHNO CONVERGENCE

- ViAlta Ships Smart Card Set-Top Boxes To PR
Story: Free DSL Set to Roll This Year
The Home of the Future
DSL could pull ahead in high-speed race
WebTV hit by Melissa-like bug
Fast Connection Sans Cables
Sony shifts gears to tap convergence trend
DSL et le respect de la vie privée
AOL's Nullsoft creates software for swapping MP3s
Nouvelles sur le DSL
Story: Why Bill G. is Barging Into *Your* Living Room (And Can He Be Stopped?)
PointCast sends its final push broadcast
Apple, AOL veterans making Linux easy
Free DSL takes step closer to market
AOLTV challenges Microsoft's WebTV
Can Microsoft's WebTV handle the new competition?
Web 'Pirates' Unearth Treasure: Hit Films (washingtonpost.com)
Music
eStart Global Entry Page
LikeTelevision - Broadband Streaming Movies Classic TV Music Videos, Comedy
Broadband Streaming Movies, television, films, and video at LikeTelevision
Microsoft WebTV Networks, Inc.
Net telephony industry goes to Washington
Everyone's a DJ
On the record
Television Site Says It Has Solutions to Copyright Problems
Did AOL eat Gnutella for lunch?
DSL - dslreports.com - the place for DSL, ADSL
Time Warner arm takes stake in Net book site
Don't Get Trapped in DSL Hell
AT&T to turn on interactive TV by year end
EDF réussit Internet sur les lignes électriques
Microsoft fine-tunes TV software strategy
Can AOL Save Interactive TV?
Internet Appliance Sales Will Soar
TV for Generations X and Y
The Laziest Way to Surf
WebTV, now in Naugahyde or real leather
21e
Free DSL
CO—T DE L'ACCES INTERNET : MOINS CHER EN FRANCE QU'AUX Etats-Unis
Making Sense of E-ntertainment
Microsoft Net moves keep AOL in crosshairs
Consumer Electronics Trends
WebTV Falters in Race for Surfers
Wall Street gets glimpse of AOL TV
A more efficient DSL?
DSL: Darn Stupid Line
Broadcasters launch online TV legal war
Les Coréens plus fort que l'ADSL?
So You Wanna Webcast?
WebTV co-founder resurfaces at head of new venture
Electronics Prices Expected to Rise
Open-Source TV/Broadcasters should jump on the open source bandwagon, pronto
WebTV To Patch Email Hole
Trouble Ahead for Cable Modems
Thomson Multimédia acccompagne son Lyra d'un "portail MP3"
New ISP Group: Beware of Cable
AOL goes interactive with OpenTV
AT&T finds itself trailing in cable-based phone service
A deal for pictures on the web
Super-Fast Cable Modems Today?
foreignTV.com | Home
THE REGISTER: Net/TV convergence myth exploded
Story: Why Interactive TV Won't Turn You On (Yet) -- Even for $50
CNET News.com - Sony refreshes WebTVs
BBC News | Sci/Tech | ADSL priced high for consumer
Une nouvelle offre Internet par le cSble en France
CNET News.com - MediaOne to offer cable modems in stores
CNET News.com - WebTV updates set-top boxes
Banyan Directory-Powered e-Business Consulting Services: CBS invests in Switchboard
CNET News.com - WebTV to add more entertainment options
CNET News.com - Acer coming out with set-tops, Net phone
Point cast firesale
Story: It's Baa-aack. How Interactive TV Is Sneaking Into Your Living Room (Whether You Want It or Not)
Net films to hit broadcast.com
CNET News.com - Broadcom may leave Lucent on sidelines
CNET News.com - Echostar, WebTV team on TV service
Bienvenue sur canalweb
AXE Digital Television Announces a Complete Solution for Full-Screen Broadband Television on the Internet
CNET News.com - Yahoo, Broadcast.com sizzle after deal
Webcasters send strong signals
GRE goes digital
Mac coming to the home networking party
The Industry Standard: TV-Web Convergence: Now? Ever?
TV-Net convergence dominates show
Sony's Stringer touts "invisible" technology
Comcast goes portal
Report questions interactive TV
BBC News | Business | Taking the Net from PC to TV
Telcos, tech unite 11/98
Set tops longest shot 11/98
Your PC as seen on TV 11/98
CNN - Interactive TV wars heat up - November 10, 1998
TV vs net not a zero sum game 11/98
Tickle me, Web TV 10/98
One chip, one modem
Infoseek, Web TV hook-up 13/9/98
CNET News.com - WebTV turnaround on Real Audio
CNET News.com - Set-top giants eye home networking
CNET News.com - Microsoft, others to buy Thomson stake
WebTV under pressure
Sega WebTV to run Windows CE
WebTV gets Sesame Street deal
Thomson unveils Divx player
Net TVs falling by the wayside
High-Bandwidth Hero! How Greedy Microsoft Will Rescue Us From Slow Internet Access
Story: Smart Shopping Guide: Is WebTV Right For You?
Software sends Web over TV
Set-top box winner? 15/1/98
Cable TV/internet
Sonic eyes interactive TV
U.K. Regulators Scrutinize Microsoft WebTV Pilot

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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