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[Any bets how long before PNG is supported in Netscape? Under 3 months
is my guess.]
Apogee Software and Mpath Interactive announced an LOI to publish
3D action games on an Internet multiplayer game service being
developed by Mpath for launch in early 96; Domark Software Inc.
announced the upcoming release of "Confirmed Kill," a WWII flight
simulation game allowing up to 500 players at a time on the
Internet; Domark plans to release several on-line games for the
Internet this year.
[The URL for Apogee is <http://cyberspace.org/u/rhfactor/www/apogee.html>.
It's under construction, of course. A FAQ is at <http://pubpages.unh.edu/
~ss1/apogeefaq.html>. Mpath is at <http://www.mpath.com/>.]]
Microsoft Corp., Netscape Communications Corp. and Progressive
Networks (RealAudio) announced the Information Highway Parental
Empowerment Group, which plans to lead industry efforts to enable
parents to "lock out" access to inappropriate content on the
Internet. The group welcomes industry participation, with info at
IHPEG@prognet.com. A report will be issued by year's end, with
plans to incorporate recommendations into software products in 96.
[This effort was the Great White hope to block the Exon amendment regu-
lating covering online indecency and obscenity, which passed in the
Senate last week by a margin greater than 5-1. Its chances in the House
this week are less certain.]
>>From Edupage:
[Or around MacOS, which IBM announced it will support in some yet-to-be-
determined fashion, probably in late 1996.]
HERE WE SHOULD HAVE LINKS TO "NEHRU JACKETS" AND "NEHRU"
Many of the marketers developing commercial sites on the World Wide Web
have unrealistic ideas of the costs and benefits of an effective Web site,
with at least one merchant expecting to pay less than $10K for an operation
which would realistically cost ten times that much. Web enthusiasts are
worried by the excessive hype, and one ad agency executive said:
"Everybody points to 1-800-Flowers, with 30,000 hits a day and 25 orders.
I fear the possibility that people are going to use the medium badly--as
they already are--and then the prevailing sentiment will send Web sites to
the Old Fad Graveyard to rub shoulders with the CB radio and the Nehru
jacket." (Internet Business Report, June'95 p.1)
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