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...invention for you. According to Settles, the human body produces a column of warm air that rises from the feet to the top of one's head, catching constantly shedding skin cells. Settles even has a catchy name for this phenomenon: the human thermal plume. He has created a portal, similar to a walk-through metal detector, that can detect the presence of microscopic amounts of explosive material in the plume...
...other problem is that no voice portal has it all. Audiopoint has book reviews and TV listings but no restaurant reviews. Tellme has Zagat but no business listings. And BeVocal has the Fed Ex office locator but lacks basics like news updates...
GIVE ME YOUR WIRED The Ellis Island Experience ($39.99) is a new CD-ROM that documents the immigrant experience of that famous portal to America, from the chalk marks put on the coats of those with health problems to the Austrian woman who thought the Statue of Liberty was a statue of Columbus. It's a story that deserves to be retold in every medium, and it's told well in this...
...Among the new companies that are becoming household names in France: Fi System, a consulting firm that constructs websites and develops Internet strategies for traditional firms as well as start-ups; Tocamak, a so-called start-up accelerator that invests in and advises fledgling Internet companies; and the Web portal MultiMania...
...veterans. Take Janice Crotty, a San Francisco Web consultant. In the space of a single year, she helped give birth to two online ventures--and watched both of them pass away. In early 1999 Crotty quit her job and went without pay for five months to found a Web portal called iAuthentic.com That failed to attract venture funding, so she joined health site wholepeople.com which, in turn, was recently rescued by, and merged with, rival site Gaiam.com...