New & Noteworthy: New Apple Store; AT&T email switch;
New & Noteworthy: New Apple Store; AT&T email switch;
Apple Store opening still draws a crowd This quote from the Herald-Sun is from the new Apple Store's assistant manager: "'When the store’s doors opened at 10 a.m., about 200 people were waiting in line,' Edwards said. He added that those same early birds returned at 3 p.m., wearing their Apple Store T-shirts given to the first 1,000 visitors." More.
AT&T Broadband braces for last-minute e-mail switch From the Boston Globe: "With four days to go before more than 150,000 New England e-mail subscribers have to switch their mediaone.net e-mail addresses, AT&T Broadband said Friday only 60 percent of its ''active users'' have completed the move to attbi.com, and it is bracing for a busy week handling customer switch-overs. As part of a settlement of a lawsuit against AT&T predecessor MediaOne Group by a South Dakota advertising firm called Media One, AT&T agreed to shut down the old mediaone.net domain name by Friday." More.
Cable Internet subscribers up, FCC to label service From Reuters: "The number of subscribers to high-speed Internet service via cable rose almost 13 percent to 7.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2001, a trade group said on Monday, days before federal regulators begin shaping the framework for what rules apply to the service. More than 800,000 new customers signed up for cable-modem service during the last three months of 2001, up from 6.4 million subscribers at the end of the third quarter, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA)." More.
Sun Micro unveils digital identifcation offering From Reuters: "The Sun Open Net Environment Platform for Network Identity will allow organizations to provide single sign-on to disparate applications, as well as authenticate users and services and authorize transactions." More.
infoUSA buys DoubleClick's Email List Services Division From BusinessWire (press release): "The deal gives infoUSA, parent of Walter Karl, one of the most respected names in the direct marketing field, an entree to the growing email list brokerage and management business, and allows DoubleClick to focus on, and continue to grow, its email technology business." More.