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To: red_dog who wrote (11464)	6/18/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: Ted Resnick	Respond to of 29970

LA TIMES: "New Head of Technology Panel Quits After 1 Day" E@A won the round, but not without a fight. According to the Times, Arcatov, (who resigned yesterday) "runs a pair of Internet companies," but it was not clear whether they were ISP's or other kinds of firms. Ted (Longtime XCIT holder) The new president of Mayor Richard Riordan's Information Technology Commission quit the post after a single day in office Wednesday, a casualty, sources said, of the same brutal and widening Internet access fight that led to her predecessor's resignation. <SNIP> Emerson's departure is one of a slew of commission changes that have stirred controversy at City Hall this week. Hers is especially noteworthy because she inherited the presidency of the technology commission just one day earlier, upon the resignation of her predecessor, Alan Arkatov. Sources said Arkatov resigned because the commission was facing a major vote on high-speed Internet access, an issue on which he and Riordan disagreed. Rather than vote against the man who appointed him, Arkatov decided to quit, sources said. <SNIP> Arkatov and Emerson favor slightly different versions of so-called "open access" to the Internet, while Riordan backs a franchise system in which cable television firms are allowed to provide their customers with exclusive access to their Internet services. Billions of dollars hang in the balance of that debate, which is raging in cities across the country and which could chart the future of high-speed Internet use nationwide. rest of article at latimes.com

To: red_dog who wrote (11464)	6/18/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Ted Resnick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Also at LA Times: City Hall Split on Policy for High-Speed Internet Access latimes.com

To: red_dog who wrote (11464)	6/20/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Susan G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

News: "Excite, Yahoo give Voice to Web Chats" from Monday 6/21 issue of Investor's Business Daily Here'a a portion of it: Excite AtHome Corp. wants to become the voice of the Internet. On Monday, Web portal Excite plans to reveal an alliance with Lipstream Networks, Inc. a little-known, privately held company that provides live voice service over the Internet, without phones. Excite will become the second portal site to offer consumers a voice service over the Internet. Its chief rival, Yahoo Inc., began offering a similar service last month. Lipstream will provide live voice service for Excite's chat rooms - Web sites where surfers, until now, talked with one another via typed messages in real time. Now, chat room visitors will be able to , well, really chat. By year-end, the companies plan to expand the voice service into other areas, including electronic commerce. Excite's service is the latest in the battle for users, or eyeballs, on the web says Harley Manning, an analyst for Forrester Research Inc., a Cambridge Mass bases market researcher. "Portals are jockeying for position, trying to differentiate themselves from one another because the portal space is so competitive" he said. Excite hopes the new service will help it gain in the eyeball race, where it's slipped in the rankings of late. In exchange for the technology, Excite will give Lipstream a portion of ad revenue. (See the Monday issue of IBD for the rest of the article)