Asia - December 1999 press
Friday, December 17,
1999
Sending time with the
press is always a pleasure. I always feel like I learn more than
they do! Hearing their questions, interacting with them, and
especially reading the stories they write really refines my
thinking. Follwing is some of the coverage that resulted and a
list of the publications and reporters I met with. My discussion
with them focused on IBM's vision of the next generation of the
Internet which you can learn more about at http://www.ibm.com/NGi.
Commercial
Times, Taiwan: IBM Helps Set Up Next Generation Net Standard
Asia
Computer Weekly, Singapore: Internet Access to Become Ubiquitous
Economic
Daily News, Taiwan: IBM's New Generation E-Business Solution Leader
HK
Economic Journal, Hong Kong: IBM Internet Expert Thinks All-Purpose
Web Site Still has Room to Survive
Lianhe
Zaobao, Singapore: Net Man from IBM Predicts Future Web Sites
will be Filled with Sound and Pictures
Liberty
Times, Taiwan: IBM Internet Vice-President..Development of Future
Enterprises will Speed Up
United
Daily News: Success in e-business depends on initiative
Computerworld,
Hong Kong: Some portals may come unhinged in 2000
The
Straits Times, Singapore: Life will be easier, says IBM's chief
dreamer
Computer
Times, Singapore: Browse the Web from your mobile phone
Eight
billion webpages will be on the World Wide Web in two years - an
eightfold increase from today, according to Internet expert John
Patrick's estimate. Yet two developments will make the Internet
easier to use: a new webpage construction language called XML
(eXtended Markup Language), and a diversity of Web-access
mechanisms.
Unlike the
incumbent HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XML labels virtually
any item on a webpage - text, graphics and transaction data like
shipping codes, customer information and price catalogues. This
paves the way for e-merchants to monitor and manage the flow of
Web-based transactions which will function like a database. With
XML, the Web will be better organised. "Searching for the desired
information will be much easier in future," said Mr
Patrick.
He is also
confident there will be enough bandwidth to cater to the deluge of
Web traffic in the future. "In fact, I consider Internet bandwidth
to be a given in the next few years," he added. This is because
the ways of receiving Web content will proliferate, relieving the
dial-up modem. These different Web access mechanisms including
wireless, satellite and cable technologies, will spread the costs
and induce competition.
"The best part is that the different delivery channels will
compete with each other resulting in cheaper rates for consumers,"
he said. The increased variety of delivery channels will also be
complemented by the diversity of access devices. "Today more than
95 per cent of Internet access is through the PC. In a few years,
that will drop to 50 per cent," said Mr Patrick. Competing with
the PC will be mobile phones, set-top boxes, Web kiosks and
handheld devices. "If you ask me two years from now who makes Web
browsers, I will probably have to say Nokia, Ericsson and
Motorola," he said.
Press activities...
CNBC TV (02/12/99): Next Generation Internet (program:
dot.com)
Summary: "If you
think the Internet is slow now, it won't be for much longer with
the Next Generation Internet..." Three minute feature on NGi and
what trends, technologies and aps will come with it. Interview
with Keith Liu
Singapore:
Press
roundtable
Date: Wednesday,
Dec 1, 1999
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Anna Yap |
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Priya Khiatani |
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Anthony Rozario |
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Ong Boon Kiat |
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Wong Souk Yee |
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Gerald Wee |
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Victor Ng |
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Jorina Choy |
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Jean Chua |
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Teng Fang Yih |
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Leong Khay Mun |
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Maurice Chia |
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Mohd Daud |
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Zhang Xiaozhong |
Hong Kong: Press Roundtable
Date: December 3, 1999
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Taiwan: Press Roundtable
Date: December 6, 1999
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