Newspapers are not the first victims of such shenanigans. More newspapers enter the community game. Internet companies eye print promotion. As a second deluge of video and text hit the Internet on Sept. 21, newspapers and their suppliers take efforts to conserve bandwidth. InfiNet offers transcripts and other material from affiliate The Washington Times in a central location and urges other affiliates to link rather than copy the material to save bandwidth.
Portal promotion intensifies.
Microsoft's Sidewalk readies its transformation from local city guide to national consumer-buying and entertainment guide. While the service prepares to move into 50 U.S. cities, it will only sell advertising in the top 25 markets. Following last week's hacking incident at The New York Times on the Web , company officials declined to reveal how the intrusion occurred. The nonpartisan service, which debuts Oct. 7, offers newspapers a way to promote their online-election coverage. Enterprise NewsMedia Inc. , which publishes the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and 10 other newspapers, will have Thomson Interactive Media publish its classifieds online.