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...Wired Workers Affluent ($55,000 to $80,000 a year) information workers in the computer, Internet and communications fields, they have profited from the new economy and want it to grow. They're up for grabs. The tech-loving, Palm Pilot-wearing Gore should have an advantage with them, but his anticorporate message has turned some of them off. And since many of them use their web browsers to buy and sell stock, they like Bush's idea of investing some of their payroll taxes in the markets. They're pro-choice and anti-regulation. In the end, they...
Today Kozmo serves 300,000 customers in 11 cities, rushing to their doorsteps with everything from Palm computers and MP3 players to snack food and video games. The only pothole in Kozmo's bike path is the same one that has upset so many Web ventures: the money drain. While it nabbed $250 million in capital from investors, including $60 million from Amazon and an additional $25 million from Starbucks, Kozmo posted a loss of $26 million last year and laid off 10% of its 3,300 employees this summer. Analysts point to the high cost of operating a "last...
...LOUIS, Mo. - The morning began with rats over omelets at the grand Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida...
BEWARE GEEKS BEARING GIFTS O.K., the Love Bug struck 10 million computers worldwide, but at least your little Palm Pilot is safe, right? No longer. Last week saw the first-ever outbreak of a Trojan horse--a precursor of computer viruses--on PDAs running the popular Palm operating system. Liberty Crack, as the bug is known, masquerades as a game program, but when you install it and run it, it immediately erases all other programs on your Palm. Security experts say this is just the beginning. The smarter our appliances get, the more vulnerable they are to viruses. The next...
...Abuja skyline. The capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...