Internet Commerce

Viewpoints Archive

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	2005	Download all 2005 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2005: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2006
November -		Real Commerce in Virtual Online Worlds
October -		Broadband Milestones and New Online-Delivery Services
September -		Recent Developments: eBay Buys Skype • Google Invests in Broadband
August -		Municipal Wireless Broadband Networks
July -		Downloadable Radio and Online Television
June -		Recent Developments: New Peer-to-Peer Services Emerge for Online Publishing and Content Delivery • Yahoo Announces New Service to Search Subscription Content • Wal-Mart Defers to Netflix
May -		Living in the Searchable World
April -		Start-Ups Create New Models for the Online Distribution of Creative Content "Clicks-and-Mortar" Retailers Begin to Click with Customers
March -		Google Identities Recent Developments: Google Replacing Your Computer's Operating System?
February -		Recent Developments: "Folksonomies" and the Art of Tagging • Google as the Next Microsoft?

	2004	Download all 2004 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2004: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2005
November -		Federated Identity and Internet Commerce
October -		More Peer-to-Peer Progress
September -		Online Searching Becomes Personal Recent Developments: Earthlink Tests Peer-to-Peer Networks
August -		Trading Television Programs Online Recent Developments: Further Progress in VoIP
July -		China, E-Commerce, and Online Trust
June -		The Future of E-Mail
May -		Challenges to Conventional Assumptions about Online Consumers
April -		Internet Commerce Has a Digital-Services Dynamic
March -		Web Logs Evolve
February -		Recent Developments: Maturation Milestones for Internet Commerce • Search Wars or Search Winners? • Stamping Out Spam with Goodmail

	2003	Download all 2003 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2003: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2004
November -		Recent Developments: Permanent U.S. Ban on Internet Access Taxes Is Temporarily Stuck in Congress • SIPphone and Skype Compete to Be the Future of Voice Over IP Announcement: Next Generation Technologies
October -		BitPass Attempts to Jump-Start Micropayments Recent Developments: PlanetLab Plans a Smarter Internet • Music Downloaders Swap Files in the Internet Underground
September -		A Tale of Two Social-Networking Services
August -		Internet Commerce and Unwanted E-Mails: Proposed Legal and Economic Solutions
July -		Internet Commerce and Unwanted E-Mails: Intensified Efforts to Filter and Block Spam
June -		The Promise of Wireless Broadband
May -		Apple's E-Music Service Hits the Right Note
April -		Online Privacy and the U.S. National Security Apparatus
March -		Recent Developments: Higher Prices for U.S. Broadband? • Sony's Embrace of Grid Computing • New Deals, and Likely New Revenue, for Google
February -		Despite Recent Digital Copyright Developments, Fair-Use Issues Remain Unsettled

	2002	Download Aug.–Dec. 2002 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2002: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2003
November -		Recent Developments: Google Finds Gains and Growing Pains • Will Consumers Take to Online Checks?
October -		Web-Based Payments: Credit Cards and E-Mail Payments in Retail Internet Commerce
September -		Recent Developments: Instant Messaging Develops as a Business Tool • More Online Content and Services Move from Free to Fee • U.S. Online Retail Sales Improve while Shipping War Escalates
August -		Local Laws and the Limits of Cyberspace
July -		Recent Developments: Content Distribution the Old-Fashioned Way • Wireless Broadband Breakthrough or Bunk?
June -		Online Bill Presentment and Payment Explorer Announcement
May -		Recent Developments: Brick-and-Mortar Stores Reinvent Online Groceries • News on the Web Moves from Free to Fee...Gradually • Microsoft's .NET Loses Its Identity
April -		Priceline.com and the Future of Dynamic Pricing on the Web
March -		eBay All the Way?
February -		Web Services: The Promise and the Hype

	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		E-Wallets for Internet Commerce: Boom or Bust?
October -		Digital Cash
September -		The Changing Face of Internet Travel
August -		Is Advertising on the Web Living Up to Its Promise?
July -		Internet Fraud
June -		The Accessible Internet
May -		After the Fall: Lessons from Failed Dot-Coms
April -		E-Commerce Revenues: Measurement and Reporting
March -		Business Models, Channels, and Consolidation in the B2B Space
February -		Regulating Online Privacy: Help or Hindrance to Internet Commerce?

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		E-Books: Products and Business Models
October -		Who's Online and Why
September -		Peer-to-Peer Computing: E-Commerce Opportunity or Threat?
August -		Electronic-Signatures Act
July -		Health Care and Information Technology Converge
June -		XML: Implications for Internet Commerce
May -		Mobile Internet Commerce
April -		eLearning: An Emerging Part of the Digital Economy
March -		Investment in E-Business
February -		Home Delivery: The Other Last Mile

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
November -		Internet Commerce in Europe
October -		Models for Business-to-Business Internet Commerce
September -		Update on Internet Retail Sales
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
*Before August 1999, the Explorer service was called TechMonitoring, and Viewpoints* were TechLinks.**
July -		Internet Auctions: The Seller's Advantage
June -		Hybrid Online/On-Land Strategies
May -		Internet Distribution in the Auto Industry
April -		Airlines Online: The Future of Internet Travel
March -		Internet Commerce and Consolidation
February -		Internet Commerce in Real Estate and Construction

	1998
Dec/Jan -		Europe and E-Commerce Look for These Developments in 1999