Word: compaq
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When I heard that Compaq recently paid one fellow an astonishing $3.3 million to buy the Internet domain name altavista.com I panicked. How much longer could I wait to register quittner.com True, my family name is not (yet) a primary destination on the Web. But neither was altavista.com when Jack Marshall, a San Jose, Calif., electrical engineer registered it in January 1994. Happily for Marshall, Digital Computer Corp. (later bought by Compaq) launched a popular search engine in 1995 called AltaVista. By this year, some 500,000 people a day were typing altavista.com into their browsers--and going directly...
...about America Online? You use it constantly and love it, and it's down 12 points in the last 10 minutes. It just reported a great quarter. What's your excuse there?" Knowing she would persist, I grabbed 10,000 shares at 99. Then, emboldened, I bought some Compaq and IBM and Dell, all of which were similarly headed south...
James J. Cramer writes for thestreet.com an investment website. He holds investments in AOL, Compaq, Dell, IBM and Maytag. Nothing in this column should be construed as advice on whether to buy or sell stocks...
Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...
Fingerprint recognition has long been used in high-security places like FBI headquarters, but only now is it finding a place in the mainstream. In August, Compaq will offer a fingerprint-recognition system to its corporate customers. Its $99 Fingerprint Identification Technology requires users to place a fingertip on a miniature scanner attached to their monitor. Once the image has been verified with a master print on file, users can access the company network without having to remember an ever-changing password...