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Another company, Kerbango, is planning to sell a stand-alone Net radio later this year that plugs directly into a phone line and requires no computer hookup, but it will cost three times as much, and you will have to have a broadband connection. (The Sonicbox system, by contrast, sounds great with a standard 56K modem...
...Saturday. Everything is not under control. By day's end Lehane still hasn't given me the hookup. I'm getting nervous; access to Gore himself has been virtually nonexistent so far; only daughter Karenna and her husband, Andrew, have been spending much time down below decks with the newsies. My editor's getting nervous; he wants this to work. Maybe I can ask Karenna to take up a note? Maybe pigs will fly. Lehane promises an answer by Sunday. I think about how to arrange an honorable death for myself...
...sweeping that they have smart people talking in ways that seem to be ripped from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Sun Microsystems' chief scientist, Bill Joy, recently said that in the future, virtually all inanimate objects--from front doors to light bulbs--will have a wireless Internet hookup. What does that mean for you? One day, when your dishwasher breaks down, the appliance will alert you via your cell phone or PDA. It may even call the repairman...
FOURTH The Web. Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler announce a rare hookup. They will link all their tens of thousands of suppliers into a single, Internet-based network. This entity will encompass $250 billion annually of suppliers' products (and perhaps an additional $500 billion of those suppliers' suppliers' products). In short, every penny of waste will be wrung from the mammoth procurement system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically. Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medical supplies, DigitalThink in training, CarStation in the auto-body-shop world. This is the white-hot world of B2B (business to business...
Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...