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DIED. DANIEL CASE III, 44, who, as head of the high-tech banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, and later chairman of J.P. Morgan HQ, helped fuel the Internet explosion of the '90s; of brain cancer; in San Francisco. Case, brother of AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, financed such Silicon Valley pioneers as Apple Computer, Adobe Software and Netscape Communications...
...cinema - thus ending its central role in preserving the cultural exception he had declared dead. Messier certainly had reason to economize. In March Vivendi revealed 2001 losses of €13.6 - the largest in French history - mostly due to a €15.7 billion write-down of companies purchased before the high-tech bubble burst. And the financial news just kept getting worse. Despite asset sales and desperate accounting ploys, concerns over the servicing and payment of Vivendi's €30 billion group debt last week led Moody's to rate Vivendi Universal bonds as junk and sent share prices tumbling ever...
MUSCLE POWER Here's a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of the cell-phone battery that dies without a car or a wall plug in sight. Motorola's FreeCharge windup charger ($80; available this summer) lets you generate electricity with your upper-body strength. Just crank the handle for 30 sec., and the charger converts that mechanical energy into enough juice to power a cell phone for five minutes. Special adapters that fit other popular phones are sold separately...
While Silicon Valley boomed in the 1980s and 1990s, a corridor of high-tech industry that had grown up around Route 128 in Massachusetts petered...
...Market’s owner, Greg Carr, who made his fortune investing in high-tech companies in the late ’80s and early ’90s, said he is dedicated to keeping the company in Harvard Square. He had originally hoped to rent a temporary space while building the new theater, but when he found nothing available in the area, he decided to close the company for two years rather than move outside the Square...