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...Julie Foudy, the thoughtful, funny midfielder who leads the team in quotes. "Girls need role models." The goal of Women's World Cup is no less than the establishment of a women's professional league to create those role models, a strategy similar to one the men used to launch Major League Soccer after the phenomenally successful 1994 men's World Cup, also held...
...Europe, threatened by a no-fee rival called Freeserve that is now Britain's biggest Internet service provider, announced today that it will launch its own free service under the name Netscape Online. The move comes three weeks after America Online unveiled a promotion in the U.S. that effectively gives a free ? and perfectly good ? computer to anyone willing to commit to three years of monthly online service charges from subsidiary CompuServe...
...computer that appeals to both the high-end power user and the low-end, entry-level laymen? And retails for less than $200? That's the question the developers at EBIZ Enterprises asked themselves, and the answer they came up with may surprise you. In mid-August EBIZ will launch the Pia, the "Personal Internet Appliance," a user-friendly desktop machine that retails for $199 and runs pure, unadulterated Linux...
Iridium is falling to earth. The global satellite-telephone network that was supposed to let even jungle-trekking CEOs keep in touch has been bleeding money and racking up disappointments since its launch last fall. Now its investors are threatening to hang up. A day after Motorola, which owns an 18 percent stake, said that the company might have to declare bankruptcy unless its partners chip in more money, Lockheed Martin announced Thursday it wouldn?t be upping its 1 percent investment any time soon. Iridium will miss its next interest payment to bondholders, and its bankers have given...
...there, and every dollar that goes to [Bush] is a dollar that doesn't go anywhere else." Bush's money advantage is so great that his campaign advisers believe the only real threat they face comes from Steve Forbes, the self-financed tycoon, who has the resources to launch the kind of airwave assault against Bush that he waged against Bob Dole in 1996. Expect a war. Forbes has already started attacking Bush's record in Texas and last week labeled him a tool of special-interest lobbyists in Washington...