Word: apps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOSERS] BILL GATES Contradicted and embarrassed by his e-mail. Gives a whole new meaning to the term killer app...
...killer app is Microsoft's MSFDC, a software suite created with data-processing giant First Data Corp., that lets consumers pay bills directly on their bank's Website. MSFDC rolls out this fall. It's a big deal. Mike Dusche, Microsoft's manager for worldwide financial services, says MSFDC will help banks navigate the coming online-commerce maelstrom by building closer customer ties. He's right: a product like MSFDC--with, say, Money and Investor along for the ride--will surely help your banker retain your allegiance. "The financial industry is based on transaction processing," says Cliff Condon, a senior...
...sleeping giant that hadn't yet awakened to the Internet blooming all around it. So Zawinski and his compadres put in 120-hour weeks. They had no lives. They coded until the sun rose, then slept under their desks. And in October 1994 they launched their killer app, known initially--forgive the hubris--as Mozilla. It was a play on Godzilla, as in "Mozilla will rule...
With $81 million in sales and 600 employees, Netscape had enjoyed a comfortable dominance of the infant Internet world. Its killer app was a program that made navigating the Net as simple as pointing at what you wanted to see and clicking on it. Browsers brought order to the chaos of the World Wide Web, a corner of the Net stuffed with text, sounds and pictures. Netscape's Navigator browser was the best on the market, and it had propelled the company through a wildly successful initial public offering in August. Some analysts were saying Netscape had an invincible lead...
Online gambling may be the Internet's first true "killer app"-a reason to log on that could also make somebody rich, very rich. The Internet reaches tens of millions of people around the world, and it's growing faster than a Las Vegas bar tab. Many of the folks who roam the networks may like to place a wager from time to time, especially from the comfort of home or an office computer. The smell of all those suckers with money to burn has attracted dozens of would-be Bugsy Siegels, all of them racing to set up Internet...