Technology finance plan is scuttled by university

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California State University has terminated the California Educational Technology Initiative (CETI), a controversial $300 million investment from high technology companies to boost the largest US college system's networks and other technology infrastructure. The deal unraveled in late Jun 1998 after lead company GTE withdrew, saying it failed to reach financial agreement with the university. Microsoft and General Motors's Hughes Electronics cited similar reasons for dropping out of the project in May 1998. Fujitsu America represented the fourth company in a partnership that was announced in fall 1997. CETI's terms positioned the four companies to draw revenue opportunities from selling services and products, such as software and pager accounts, to students and faculty. The plan drew praise from leading university officials. Some students and staff members blasted CETI as anti-competitive, saying its private investment threatened public higher education.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Usage, Universities and colleges, Telecommunications systems, California, Technology application, Technology, Technology in education, California State University and College System

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Wanted: Web-site addresses that won't twist the tongue

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Dave Yost is among the millions of Web users who have tired of the complicated, difficult-to-pronounce, addresses used for Web sites. Yost is particularly disenchanted with the www. portion of most uniform resource locators (URL). Most people already drop the http:// portion of a URL when they relate a Web address, but continue to use the www. portion. Yost is dissatisfied with the superfluous syllables in the letter W, and points out that WWW has three times as many syllables as the phrase it represents - World Wide Web. Yost is campaigning to replace the 'double-you-double-you-double-you dot' with 'Web-dot', thus eliminating eight syllables. The Webdot Campaign has a Web site (web.yost.com/misc/webdot.html) with around 60 examples of Web sites using Web-dot address. Users who wish to join the campaign can generally shift their URLs to the web-dot address style, as long as their ISP will allow it to function as an alias.

Telegraph & other communications, Specialized Telecom Services, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Internet services, Design and construction, Domain names, World Wide Web, Internet/Web technology, Internet address/domain name

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