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...OLYMPICS Replaced by the AOL-Time Warner-Citibank-Wal-Mart-People's Republic of China Inc. Goodwill Games...
Looking like a cross between a phaser from Star Trek and a remote control from Wal-Mart, the input devices allow students to instantly "beam" their answers to a central terminal by pressing a corresponding numerical button. The terminal would then compile the answers and create final distribution statistics for how the class fared on each question...
There is another sizable chunk of the holiday market still left to be served--the procrastinators. E-commerce traffic began to taper off in mid-December as shoppers worried that online deliveries wouldn't arrive on time. Who could blame them? Wal-Mart and others warned Web shoppers as early as Dec. 12 that they couldn't guarantee delivery by Dec. 25. But with overnight delivery, Weiner says, "I don't see any reason why the Net couldn't serve that last-minute shopper." Better get cracking on that back end. --With reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano/Los Angeles
...loath to go to a site that makes them register. Thankfully, more and more sites seem to be paying attention to our gripes. Expedia.com just waived its registration page, which used to pop up before you could even use the site. Preview Travel nixed its, and the new Wal-Mart travel site never had one. Now you have to register only when you want to book a ticket. If only the rest of the Web would follow suit...
...dead, staff writer Karl Taro Greenfeld looks at clicks-and-mortar companies, which are integrating actual stores with online services, and concludes that they may be best positioned to own the future. Chris Taylor examines the food fight among online grocery services, and Maryanne Murray Buechner wonders how Wal-Mart will fare in an e-commerce world. "The Internet clearly has been one of the most dynamic forces in the history of capitalism," says business editor Bill Saporito, who produced the package with help from senior reporter Bernard Baumohl, deputy picture editor Rick Boeth and associate art director D.W. Pine...