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...makes you worry less about mortgage payments. There are a lot of people freaking out on bad DSL trips right now. I can be thankful I haven't had my phone service knocked out, or lost days of work waiting for the technician to show up, or paid a premium for service that ended up being slower than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In DSL Hell | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Today, accuracy is at a premium...

Author: By Beau A.J. Briese, | Title: Polling for Truth | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

...charge between $40 and $120 per thousand names, a premium over the cost of lists of the general public...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You've Got Mail! | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...Adams' own sense of humor and irony. Unlike the motivations of sites that attempt to build forums and communities as a way of getting people to stay on their sites and buy more products, creating the guide is h2g2's raison d'etre. Soon h2g2 plans to introduce a premium service allowing users to receive a "smarticle," a text-based phone message summarizing sightseeing tips for a particular area, saving mobile users search time and reducing phone charges. h2g2 will make money through subscription charges and by taking a cut of mobile operators' airtime revenues, says the firm's chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Sci-Fi Meets The Net | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...Dropping the Firestone name altogether would be the most drastic measure, but many observers think it is the only viable way to keep the company's beachhead in the U.S. Bridgestone has an established, albeit smaller, place in the North American market as a high-end, premium tire brand, and most consumers don't seem to think of it as falling from the same rubber tree. "Probably the best thing Bridgestone can do with the Firestone name is put it under a rock and forget about it," says Art Spinella, who runs automotive-market researcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firestone's Rough Road | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

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