Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked very intensely over the three weeks and had a lot more speed," co-captain Tom Fallows said. We tried several different combinations of people in the boat and, more importantly, front-loaded our race to attack the other teams...
...hear in the distance is two gigantic war machines rumbling into position for a battle over the future of the Internet, a turf war that's going to make the browser rivalry look like a schoolyard spat. The name of the game is broadband, the technical term for high-speed Internet access. It's complex stuff, so much so that even the big players sometimes get confused. (When asked a convoluted broadband question at his deposition, Case did a double take. "Am I in the wrong room?" he asked, to peals of laughter from Microsoft lawyers...
What it boils down to is this. Netizens are sick of the World Wide Wait. We know the Internet isn't living up to its potential. Most of us would junk our 56K modems in a Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they...
...just one-half of a digital double whammy. This summer AOL will start rolling out high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) access to more than 16 million Bell Atlantic customers. Expect a ton of those annoying pop-up ads trumpeting the fact, and a slew of stories on Case's ominous-sounding broadband strategy, known in the trade as "AOL Everywhere...
...giant Excursion utility truck. The Sierra Club dubbed it the Ford Valdez, after the ill-fated oil tanker. The company's new attitude toward the environment reflects a slow shift throughout the industry toward greener machines. Yet the challenge remains: how to balance consumers' craving for size and speed with the need for clean air. At least this time, Ford did both...