Word: infobahn
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...stock, AOL gets all of Netscape, right down to the last cappuccino machine. These are indeed dark days for the Mountain View, Calif., start-up. The company whose trailblazing browser jump-started the World Wide Web back in 1994 was supposed to become the fastest hot rod on the Infobahn. Instead, Bill Gates sideswiped it into a ditch and left AOL to strip the wreck for parts: a browser, a website and a treasure chest of software. How well AOL exploits its new toys will determine whether its latest mantra, "AOL Everywhere," looks prescient or ironic a few dozen business...
Location, location, location. Microsoft's plan to charge merchants for MSFDC on a per-transaction basis is a first for the company--and just the sort of Infobahn-tollbooth scenario that Gates spent years swearing he wouldn't pursue. Then there's Windows DNA FS (Distributed Internet Applications for Financial Services, for those keeping score at home), Microsoft's bid for the banking industry's long-term back-office software business, which looks like one of the biggest cash cows high-tech capitalism has yet to offer...
...that you could write to and it would write back?" asked my brilliant eight-year-old, Zoe. Thus began another Mr. Peabody Night in the Quittner household, with me, Zoe and Ella, 6, cruising the Web in search of infotainment. We piled into the Mac, slipped out onto the Infobahn and, faster than you can say, "Open the pod doors, Hal," found ourselves in the company of Julia...
...partners alike, abusing the leverage its Windows monopoly gives over a critical industry. It's a mushrooming p.r. cloud that threatens to damage Microsoft both explicitly (if Justice decides to monkey-wrench Gates' Windows 98 plans) and implicitly, by hampering his ability to influence future legislation on such crucial Infobahn issues as copyright protection and encryption...
...solidly black summer. Profits, the company said, rose ahead of expectations; hot new IBM computers such as the ThinkPad 560 were rocketing off the shelves for the first time in decades; and the company's services business, which helps firms get up to the warp speed of the infobahn, had booked a mind-blowing $11 billion in business in the first nine months...