Word: internetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cross the line into cheating. "Counseling helps you explain away the difficulties in your record and highlight your best features," defines Andy Rosen, CEO of Kaplan. But when does "editing" become writing a student's essays for him? Achieva insists that it only gives guidance and makes students do Internet and college-guide research and their own writing. Still, Andy Lutz, a vice president at the Princeton Review, admits the distinction is tricky. "There's a line between suggesting and rewriting," he says. "But it's a gray area...
...dot.coms are going to be DOA before the frenzy is over. Within a few years, the windfall could end for old media too. Dot.com spending is expected to plateau once the winning companies are in command and more consumers shift to the Net. It could result in an Internet take on an old Marxist theme: When new media arrived to hang old media, the networks sold them the rope...
Call it the Blair God Project. Like the witchy summer hit, The Omega Code, starring Michael York and Casper Van Dien, was made on a modest budget--$7.2 million. And like Blair, it ran a remarkable under-the-radar promotion campaign. But where Blair used the Internet, Omega employed an even more unusual grass roots: it was sold almost exclusively through--and to--the Evangelical Christian community. Crowed producer Matthew Crouch: "I feel we've identified a new consumer group that Hollywood, Wall Street and Madison Avenue don't know exists. We've primed the pump, and there will...
...strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along at 56K get moved to a different IP address every time we log on. We may be slower, but we're harder to find...
Ebbel, who is one of the founders of Collegebeans.com, an Internet company that allows users to personalize on-line resources, says having a cell phone allows him to stay connected at all times...