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...fast. The Net wonders aren't dead. They're just going to behave differently as this industry, like so many before it, enters the next phase of development. That phase will include the creation of tons of stock as new IPOs flood the market in search of easy money (yours). And it will include the inevitable shakeout as investors sort out the jewels from the junk. The only question is, How fast will all this happen...
...consider quepasa.com a Spanish-language search engine that has none of those qualities--plus a 26-year-old CEO. Despite having virtually no revenue and a $6.9 million loss last year, the company hopes to raise $44 million in an IPO next week...
...measure?s provisions. Though some resuscitation of gun control might still be possible in conference negotiations with the Senate, which last month passed gun-show and other controls, Friday?s House outcome left the issue a legislative corpse for the moment, and the two parties are in search of a culprit...
Anyway, setup was a snap, done wirelessly in minutes. The Palm's built-in 8,000-bits-per-second modem is way slower than today's 56-kbps standard, but 3Com made up for it by creating a low-bandwidth, mostly graphics-free way to search the Web. Indeed, on the VII you don't browse the Web, you "clip" it. Palm users can visit only participating websites (so far, a few hundred have signed up) rather than the entire Web. While I was at first offended at this idea--the Internet is meant to be open and free...
...search of a juicy beach book that you need not be embarrassed to be seen with at the most exclusive resort? Get your hands on City of Light, a full-to-the-brim first novel. Set in turn-of-the-century Buffalo, N.Y.--a city that's being electrified, literally, by the new turbines at Niagara Falls--the book is part mystery and part historical melodrama, fluently mixing fact and fiction, with the sort of Victorian plot devices that guarantee a straight-through, sleepless read. The novel is no Ragtime, but it's close--an operatic potboiler, fat with romance...