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Meanwhile, Dreamcast refuses to lie down and die. Not only is Sega about to start offering the hardware for free--provided you sign up for the $20-a-month online gaming zone Sega Net--but its catalog of games keeps going from strength to strength. Joining must-haves like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi at the show was the epic role-playing Shenmue, whose lovingly rendered hyper-realistic environment surpasses anything yet available for PlayStation 2. Throw in positive feedback for the Microsoft X-box and early buzz about the Nintendo Dolphin, and there is good reason for Sony...
...wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew how to get out of the two-year, $60,000-a-month lease. That didn't matter, Gore said; they had to move and shed staff on the way. He was ready with a biblical allusion, the admonition of God's messenger to Gideon as he prepared for battle: Your army is too big, so send two-thirds of it home...
Henry Ford wanted everyone to have a cheap car; his corporate descendants want a computer in every home. The Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that every one of its 350,000 employees would be eligible to receive a free Hewlett Packard computer, a color printer and $5-a-month Internet access via UUNet in a worldwide program beginning in April. The program will be reviewed after three years. "Ford has had very good labor relations over the past decade, and this remarkable initiative is certainly going to help maintain the loyalty of their workforce," says TIME business correspondent Frank Gibney...
Microsoft, surprisingly, did not immediately cancel the deal. Spokesperson Tom Pilla said that he expected few customers to cancel the $21.95-a-month Internet service "because we think the value that we're offering customers, as we've seen from the many sign-ups, is tremendous." However, one ungrateful shopper told the Mercury News, "I really don't like Bill Gates." He bought a $407 set of two-way radios...
Omidyar wrote some code and over Labor Day weekend of 1995 launched what he called AuctionWeb, which was supported on the $30-a-month Internet service provider he was hooked up to from home. (The site's domain name was www.ebay.com and eBay was the name that stuck.) There were no Pez dispensers--that came later--but there were listings for a whole lot of computer hardware. eBay started out free, but it quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided...