The Second Hong Kong Web Symposium has been incorporated into this Asian event. The first part of the Conference will be held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, on 23 August, and the second part will be held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 26-28 August. Proposals for papers have been called for with a particular interest in papers which show how the pooling of resources and expertise have bridged national, geographical and sectorial boundaries. ON WEB Globalink's new Web Translator can translate Spanish, French and German Web pages into English at the click of a button. The range of material is impressive with current affairs, live radio, special events broadcasts and more that 300 CDs to listen to.
Speakers are from mainly commercially-based organisations reflecting the nature of the conference.
Advertising on the Web has to be information, not manipulation. But there's still a chance something quite new could happen. InfoWorld magazine columnist Bob Metcalfe, who invented the Ethernet networking system in 1973, is one of several analysts who predicts that the Internet is ready to collapse. It's not intended to be a major telecommunications infrastructure for the country. Though the Internet's bandwidth has grown by about 100 percent to 150 percent per year, traffic on the Net has grown as fast, if not faster.