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Gore got to the Staples Center 15 minutes early, a ball of nervous energy. He embraced his college roommate Tommy Lee Jones, and the two men took their own quiet turn around backstage together, winding up at the side portal from which Gore was meant to make his entrance. The Secret Service had hung a blue curtain blocking the crowd's view through that doorway, but there was a gap at the top, and Gore could just make out his wife on the Jumbotron. Tipper was talking about her father-in-law Al Sr., and his kindly face appeared...
...Main sponsors like Lucent Technologies put up hospitality tents and flew small airplanes with banners that advertised the company. Lycos.com, an Internet portal company, thrilled fans with a plane that spelled out "LYCOS" in smoke letters...
...After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more reason...
...MAILIN' ME? Passengers in New York City taxis are generally too busy fearing for their life to get bored, but in that unlikely event, they can now pass the time by surfing the Internet. The Web portal Yahoo has mounted Palm VII handheld computers, which can access the Internet wirelessly, in the backseats of 10 New York cabs; it also painted and upholstered them in purple. Unfortunately, you still won't be able to hail one when it's raining...
...What this does is basically ensure that Africana will be the leading black portal on the Internet," Gates said. "We thought that would take years to realize...