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Supermodel Claudia Schiffer drew reporters to a nondescript supermarket in her hometown of Rheinberg, Germany, last month, when she presided over its rechristening as a high-tech "Future Store" designed to showcase and test interactive shopping technology. She was the star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises...
...spins daily, Metro hopes the devices will catch on enough to justify mass production. Advantage on The Net Wimbledon may be one of sport's most old-fashioned events, but that hasn't stopped IBM from using this year's edition of the tennis tournament as a kind of tech lab. Equipment from IBM and Cisco is being used to turn the entire Wimbledon site into a wi-fi zone. Journalists will be able to file stories wirelessly from any location, and game statistics will be logged directly from courtside into the data-crunching network used by TV broadcasters. Perhaps...
...seem well positioned to broker a deal. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she has close ties with lawyers, who contributed almost $500,000 to her campaigns over the past five years, more than she received from any other group. Yet she sponsored a bill to protect high-tech firms from Y2K liability, which trial lawyers opposed. And she comes from a medical family. Her father was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of California Medical Center, and her second husband Dr. Bertram Feinstein, who died in 1978, was a neurosurgeon. He had eight malpractice suits...
...stock market in 1994 by joining an investment club. Over the last two years Lake has shoveled about €2,830 - or around j118 monthly - into equities. Yes, the holdings - including those of his clubs - are worth far less than their peak of €364,000 during the tech boom. "Maybe we were a little bit unwise not to sell up and put it into bonds," he sighs. But he's staying put. Diversify your investments Financial advisers say Lake's approach is just right. His regular payments - which allow him to buy fewer shares when prices are high...
...years. In the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the No. 40 Crimson upset No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth, 4-3, to advance to the round of 32 for the second consecutive year. Harvard takes ECAC fall championships for first time since 1999 with victory over top-seeded Virginia Tech...