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...most people, the cost and confusion of a PC is no bargain. Their wired future lies in the emergence of low-cost, easy-to-use consumer electronics devices--Net-linked TVs, phones or game machines projected to be a $1 billion market by the turn of the century. Microsoft placed a bet on the "info appliance" business in April when it bought WebTV for $425 million. Last week Sun Microsystems joined the party. The giant server firm acquired Diba, an appliance start-up in search of deep pockets...
...changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy to epidemiology to archaeology, more and more professionals are finding that when you're looking for lab assistants to collect good data at a bargain price, you can't beat the amateurs on the Internet...
...shirts, dumplings, breathing-fresh chicken, leather-goods, perfumes and CD's. Occasionally, the wandering, by-now-confused pedestrian can stumble onto an improvised, rousing performance of traditional Chinese opera, an experience never to be forgotten. At the side of the street, uninterested in the trafficking of shoppers and bargain-hunters, locals and off-duty taxi-drivers pause at an open-air restaurant, where they can taste the array of local flavors in the midst of strong, all-pervading effusions of sauces and the ever-present dumpling steam...
...closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill have deeper designs in the Mac's operating system? Discuss...
...chairman, mentioned in the closer on his opening address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill have deeper designs in Mac's operating system? Discuss...