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...anonymous Web-surfing days of yore may soon return if Brandon K. Guttman ’00-’02 has his way. Guttman and his business partner Dan Houston ’01 recently unveiled the first commercial version of Jimmy Surf, software that promises to keep an Internet user’s net history a secret between him, his god and, well, Jimmy Surf...
...stage and left their fans screaming for more. The quintet soon came back for their encore. After playing “Buddy Holly,” one of their most famous singles from their first album, they ended the show with a grand finale of “Surf Wax America.” Cuomo and Shriner left their guitar and bass in front of the amps in a wash of feedback as the band departed, this time for good. The crowd, on the other hand, was left breathlessly staring at the empty stage, mesmerised by the superb quality...
...helpful investment it would have been. For instance: Deutsche Telekom (whose network Malone was eyeing) now offers only 760-kilobit bandwidth to private users, whereas in the U.S. they can surf at the speed of 5 megabits. Again the basic mercantilist motto is this: "Don't help the consumer, protect the producer" - by keeping out foreign competition...
...what I wanted to do. It was at the Holy Family Church in Hicksville, N.Y. Five guys were in the band. We all had the same outfits--a royal blue jacket with a black velvet collar and black pants. And we played a mix of Beatles songs and surf instrumentals. There were probably 150 to 200 people in the audience. I played an organ and sang only incidentally. But I was one of the guys in the band who sang the best, so they gave me a microphone. I loved the noise we were making. It clicked...
When Michael O'Neil was hospitalized for 10 days in 1998, he and fellow patients suffered "isolation, boredom, confusion and anxiety." So O'Neil, 30, founded Get Well Network, based in Washington, to make hospital TV screens interactive. At the click of a remote, patients can surf the Web, access e-mail and instant messaging, and play music or video games. Or they can just watch TV: the network offers pay-per-view movies and more than 40 TV channels. "Since we implemented it, we've noticed improvement in patient satisfaction," says Les Donahue, CEO of Williamsburg Community Hospital...