Word: servicesal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, for the organizers of some of the millennium's most ambitious bacchanals, Dec. 31, 1999, may just have come a decade or so too late. There's something a bit retro, a shade Dynasty-esque, about such gilded offerings as the Chicago Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package...
Now I no longer have to choose between cyberlife and social life. Suddenly everybody is doing computer call waiting. This summer Actiontec became the first company to sell a call-waiting modem. And this fall software-only services are popping up everywhere. Callwave, Pagoo and Prodigy all offer programs you...
Next I tried Callwave, a "free" service that--big surprise--isn't. Like all the other software-only services, it requires you to sign up for a little-known option provided by most local phone companies called call forward on busy. This means that if your phone is busy, an...
Like many new high-tech firms, both were growing fast--but not fast enough to keep up with the demands of their customers. Personify, founded in San Francisco in 1996, builds software that lets an e-marketer keep track of visitors to its website, what pages they look at, and...
John Groves, 36, exemplifies both trends. He founded Open Microsystems, an Austin, Texas, electronic-software-and-services company, in 1991. Seven years later, he had built it into a $5 million business. But, he says, "we had to raise a lot more money or settle into a growth rate that...