Word: internetted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make a living hunched over a computer terminal, betting on the daily gyrations of individual stocks (see accompanying story). By this year Barton was a full-time day trader. But things turned bad this summer. Barton had lost about $105,000 since June, almost all of it on volatile Internet stocks, according to Momentum Securities, where he traded most recently. Some reports said his account there had been closed on Tuesday after he was unable to meet a margin call--a brokerage firm's demand that a customer put up cash to cover a debt caused by falling stock prices...
...solely to play digital audio files encoded with a form of compression called MP3. MP3 can reduce the storage needs of CD songs to roughly one tenth their original size without significantly sacrificing sound quality, and it has rapidly emerged as an open standard for transmitting music over the Internet. Songs, which can be downloaded from the Internet or "ripped" from CDs, are loaded into the Rio from a personal computer. MORE...
What may matter most, though, is where the stock settles after the inevitable post-IPO run-up. I'd love to own UPS as a back-door Internet play, much like profitable equipment makers Lucent and IBM. But if Netniks drive the stock too high too fast, FDX, sliding lately, may be the better stock. Attention from the UPS offering and a repeat breakout holiday season for online shopping could send it on another...
...Ranking of "mp3" among Internet searches last month, unseating...
UNCENSORED The Internet has hardly been obscenity free. But in the past, using what George Carlin once called the "seven dirty words" in a domain name was taboo. No more. Now that domain registry is no longer a monopoly, some registrars are apparently winking at four-letter words. Indeed, one of those new custodians of Web domains, Net Wizards, claims that those former no-nos "account for 75% of our business." Blanketyblank.com...