Columbia University and several other of the world's most prestigious academic centers are planning to capitalize on their wealth of scholarly talent and stores of knowledge by offering them on the Internet, for a price.
Identity theft, which occurs when an impostor uses a legitimate user's identifying information without his/her consent, is becoming one of the biggest security concerns both for users and for organisations offering services on the Internet.
Cellphone users are now often limited to the services offered by their carriers, but Wi-Fi phones could have access to a wider range of offerings on the Internet, in some cases at faster transmission speeds than on the carriers' networks.
Paid weather services are among a growing number of successful subscription offerings on the Internet, said Michael Zimbalist, executive director of the Online Publishers Association, a trade group.
The emerging conventional wisdom was that viewers were attracted to a more customized menu of viewing options tailored to their particular interests: specialized cable networks, like ESPN; interactive offerings on the Internet; and, of course, HBO.
In total, 1242 product offerings on the internet for suspicious food products were identified among the 8683 search results.
In response, IFilm, one of the leading companies offering streaming video on the Internet, scrambled and put together a deal with the AMC theater chain to allow some of Ifilm's shorts to be shown to paying audiences for three consecutive days in a Los Angeles cinema before being released on the Web.
Britain's leading supermarket chain, Tesco P.L.C., said it would create 7,000 new jobs this year as it expands the number of stores offering home shopping on the Internet to 300 from 100 and widen its online offerings of nonfood items like books, clothes, furniture and banking services.
MobShop Inc., one of a handful of companies offering group buying on the Internet, is closing its consumer operations, on the heels of the recent announcement that its chief competitor, Mercata Inc., was going out of business.
Stephen James Barry, a member of one of Moonshine's best-selling acts, Cirrus, said that offering free music on the Internet -- where many of its young fans gather -- had helped to generate bigger audiences for his group's concerts.
