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...former heir presumptive at Cisco Systems, Listwin, now 44, was tapped in August 2000 to head up Openwave, a company formed by the merger of Phone.com and Software.com Initially, it was expected to profit from a coming wave of interest in browsing the Internet on the small screens of cell phones. At its peak a year later, Openwave boasted $500 million in annual revenue and a share price of $125. But by mid-2002, Openwave shares had plunged to 43¢--freighted by the telecom bust and by the firm's particular missteps. "This was not a trusted company," says Listwin...
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...into play for millions across Europe: families piling into station wagons with the kids and the dog, teens squeezing onto trains with bulky backpacks, buckling into airplanes in their shorts and baseball caps. "Holy days" transformed into the sacred institution of the Great European Vacation, the massive July through August exodus during which Europeans escape to seek rest and recreation in friendlier climes. The summer holiday is going through some hard times, though. It has become a political battlefield with the recent spat between Italy and Germany, and at least some would-be travelers have been deterred by fears...
...used to. Roberto Perrone, of Rome's Turicam agency, says: "Maybe a two- or three-hour flight, but no more." This could be due to money and safety jitters, but they are not the only reasons the Great European Vacation is changing. The traditional months off are July and August, but more people now seem to be breaking their time down into smaller chunks instead of taking one three- to four-week lump. Travel agents even have an ugly neologism for the shift. "It's called deseasonalization," says Maura Chicarella, of Realize Tour in Rome. She says many Italians...
...side effect of fragmenting vacations is that many of Europe's big cities are no longer summer deserts. Madrid and Barcelona, for instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone...