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...challenge was not just breaking into the owner's circle, however. It was also hard to convince investors that the urban minority market he was targeting was viable--that blacks and Latinos ages 18 to 34 are a potentially profitable online demographic. Even before the tech market tanked last March, it was rough going for most black dotcoms. In the general spring housecleaning, they were likely to be the first to get knocked off. "A lot have already gone out of business," says Lary Tuckett, director of ethnic marketing for Luminant Worldwide, a Dallas-based Internet-services provider. "Or they...
COOL PUPS INVENTOR: JO WIDNESS If dogs had thumbs, they would probably stop drinking out of the toilet. They also might turn on the air conditioning when their owner leaves them in a hot car. Until evolution, there's the Chilly Dog, a car system with a preprogrammed temperature setting that automatically starts a car's engine and turns on the AC when things get too hot. The vehicle runs for a programmed period of time and then shuts off. The process repeats whenever the threshold temperature is reached...
...Cambridge does street cleaning once a month on either side of the street at about 10 a.m.," writes Mary E. Bridges '01, a Quad car owner, in an e-mail message. "If you forget to move your car, it will be gone by about 9:30. You have to pay a visit to Phil of Phil's Towing and pay about $65 to get it back...
...Kells turns over 30 to 45 confiscated IDs to Allston/Brighton police every week, and, says owner Jerry M. Quinn, its bouncers receive $150 for every 10 fakes they collect...
Partington agreed, saying that when the occasional patron protests, she asks, "If this is really your ID, why can I peel it in two?...I've had people swear up and down that it's their license, but [when informed they can return when the owner is there to reclaim it], they never come back...