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...good to be true? Not necessarily. An intelligent, fully wired house like this still costs a bundle (anywhere from $15,000 and up), but the spectacular array of offerings, including low-cost devices for convenience on a smaller scale, is making home automation a more appealing choice for millions of Americans...
Global dominos is what the 1990s are all about. We live in an unusual period of low inflation, achieved in a big way by companies cutting costs to the bone to keep prices down. Executives have scanned the world in search of low-cost production and added sales, and the result is an intricately connected business world. You can bet that every big American company is doing a chunk of business in the hot Asia market...
James cited a neigborhood initiative in Roxbury and North Dorchester as an example of successful community organization and participation. The initiative sponsors low-cost housing, neighborhood clean-ups, youth activities and a "buy local" campaign in which 118 shops participate...
They don't have to. By gathering all that Net capacity, WorldCom is building a low-cost back road that can deliver E-mail and other data among corporate clients from Boston to Hong Kong. The company recently launched an Internet fax service in a bid for a chunk of the $92 billion fax market. "If you find a way to fax over the Internet, you are going to take a huge piece of what is pretty much the growth segment of the [phone] industry," says the frenetic John Sidgmore, vice chairman of WorldCom and CEO of UUNet...
Regaining traction will require what Jobs last week called "a new paradigm." Just what this might consist of, though, is unclear. Build low-cost network computers? Split up into hardware and software siblings? Or just rely on next year's expected release of the post-Mac operating system, Rhapsody, based on Jobs' NeXT technology, which Apple shelled out $424 million for last winter? True believers call Rhapsody the greatest OS ever and Apple's savior (Tim Berners-Lee did invent the Web on it); skeptics call NeXT a marketplace failure and an albatross Apple should have left around Steve Jobs...