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...InterFraternity Council met in an emergency meeting late yesterday to discuss the incident, said Jennifer E. Lee, the editor-in-chief of the Tech, MIT's student paper...
Nonetheless, Fisher readily admits that Kodak botched the launch last year of its 24-mm Advantix camera (price range: $50 to $250), the company's other major new high-tech consumer product. Kodak figured that shoppers would snap up a camera that loaded film in snafu-proof cassettes and produced high-quality photos that could be captured on film, filed easily and transferred to computers. But the launch, estimated to have cost $100 million, faltered for a lack of sufficient cameras in stores and a shortage of processors equipped with gear to develop the images. Now, for a fresh...
...WorldCom-CompuServe deal certified AOL as cyberspace's first true empire, a global online service that's adding 6,000 members a day and will soon be available in more than 100 countries. Revenues have pumped up with impressive speed, even for a high-tech firm, from $53 million in fiscal 1993 to nearly $2 billion this year. And, slowly, profits are emerging. The stock price, which traded at $22 a year ago, hit a high of $80.50 this week. Even at a perilous 80 times projected 1998 earnings, it will beat the market, think Wall Street pros...
...anchor for this success is a truism as relaxed as Case's laconic charm: easy is better. In a world of overfeatured, tech-heavy computers and Internet gadgets, Case built a business on the simple idea that the electronic world should be easy to use. "The geeks don't like us," Case said last week as he kicked back in his Dulles, Va., office, sporting a new green CompuServe shirt. "They want as much technology as possible, while AOL's entire objective is to simplify." It was Case, for instance, who introduced the first graphical interface to the online world...
...crushed metal, in the iconography of the crash, alongside James Dean, Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace. These other victims, however, died unpursued. They weren't fleeing the pointed end of their own celebrity: men on motorcycles with computerized cameras and satellite-linked mobile phones. The paparazzi are the high-tech dogs of fame. But it must be admitted that we sent them into that tunnel, to nourish our own mysterious needs...