Word: apps
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...events. Care to watch brain surgery live online? Or a sex-change operation? Warshavsky's live-just-about-anything imagination has made IEG a dynamic growth company of somewhat dubious repute. "The Net is the natural medium for adult content," says Warshavsky, a geek who has found his killer app. "We're in the right place at the right time." This year IEG, which he co-owns with 4 Star Financial Services, an investment company, is on track to generate $100 million in revenue and $35 million in profit. "It'll be exciting to see what happens with...
Hardwaremakers are also being hurt because softwaremakers aren't producing the power- and memory-sucking innovations that made consumers and businesses race out to upgrade their machines. The next big app, Microsoft's Windows 2000, is likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place...
...more than one PC today, and that number is expected to jump to 31 million by 2003. Working at home is becoming increasingly popular as well: today's 37 million home offices are expected to balloon to 50 million in three years. Meantime, the Internet has become the "killer app" among all PC users, business or pleasure. And therein lies the most compelling reason to set up a network in the first place: to share a single modem and single Internet service...
Patent disputes are erupting over online auctions just as they emerge as a killer app for sites such as Ebay and Onsale. The latest conflict pits comer Priceline.com against a Virginia inventor who claims he got to the patent office a year and a half earlier. MORE...
NYLON STOCKINGS Nylon was created in 1938 DuPont found the killer app in 1940 when the first nylon stockings went on sale. Women gladly paid $1.15 a pair, twice the price of silk stockings...