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Wilson Rothman started writing about technology for TIME and its tech spinoff TIME Digital in 2000. Though his beat is technology, Rothman was nevertheless one of the first TIME reporters to file interviews of World Trade Center disaster witnesses on Sept. 11th...
...those endless touch-tone-phone menus with a computerized attendant that can connect you directly to the right person. The big users are banks and airlines, who use the software to let callers book flights automatically. About $240 million worth of speech software was sold in 2001, according to tech research firm IDC. It expects sales to surpass $1 billion...
...purity is the only acceptable option, the biggest polluters will have no incentive to clean up their acts. Says Dwight Evans, executive vice president of Southern Co., a major U.S. energy producer: "If tomorrow we announced we were shutting down 25% of our plants to put in new, high-tech scrubbing devices, the headline would be, WHY NOT THE OTHER 75%? We don't get credit for what we've done, or for what we're going...
...competition for a kid's leisure time, the low-tech radio may seem like a weak contender. It may not have the same hold over today's youngsters that IM, MTV, Game Boys and videos do. And it certainly doesn't dominate their lives the way it did their parents' in the old Top 40 days. But according to a 2000 study conducted by the marketing-research firm Arbitron, 90% of kids ages 6 to 11 listen to at least eight hours of radio each week, with that number increasing as they get older. Eager to keep them tuning...
...countries like Cambodia, high-tech gizmos stand little chance against a scourge that has become virtually an epidemic. Best estimates put the number of prostitutes in Cambodia at about 30,000, and as many as one-third of these are thought to be under 18 years old?many of them trafficked into the country illegally from neighboring Vietnam. These child prostitutes are highly profitable bait for well-heeled visitors. More than 65% of all tourists to Cambodia are men, and one-fifth of them are there for the sex industry, according to a survey of travel agents by World Vision...