Word: unlock
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...Monday Rosetta Books, a major player in the nascent e-book market, announced a "$1 for 10 hours of reading" deal. You pay a buck, download the book, then 10 hours later the text gets all scrambled up. Haven't finished? Tough luck; you have to pay again to unlock it. Right now this is just a trial deal attached to one tome - Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" - but you don't have to be Poirot to know that it won't end there, or that 10 hours' worth of reading won't stay that cheap forever...
...businesses, the reality is different. "Companies have spent billions of dollars on intranet infrastructures, knowledge management systems and customer relationship management systems, and the best return on investment they've had so far is e-mail," says Mahendra Vora, CEO of Intelliseek, one of several new companies aiming to unlock the potential of the invisible Web for their customers. Launched in Cincinnati in 1997, the firm (www.intelliseek.com) began providing deep search resources for individual researchers, but its real targets are the intranets of global corporations. Among its biggest clients are Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble. Also Nokia and Ford, which...
...their playful giggles are once more heard in the courtyard?we stood in silence, but then laughter erupts from one corner as a group of monks who had locked themselves out of the kitchen heave the smallest boy onto their shoulders to wiggle through an open window and unlock the door from the inside. Senior monks, too, have returned to their retreats, spending days, months and years in dark solitude, sustained only by food slipped into their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where you can visit the former private rooms of the Dalai Lama, tourists...
...range of services, starting with a basic safety option that for $199 a year gives drivers the comfort of knowing that Big Brother OnStar is up there watching: advisers are alerted and call in assistance when the air bags of an OnStar-equipped car deploy. They can also unlock doors when keys get lost, diagnose engine problems or even find a stolen car. Last fall an OnStar adviser tracked a GMC Yukon stolen from a Battle Creek, Mich., dealership, enabling police to arrest four men within 10 minutes of the call to OnStar requesting help...
...better alternative, the scenario which will unlock the discontinuous powers of the Internet for the distribution of all media, would have all music available through one site, for one low subscription cost. Napster, if it negotiates shrewdly with the music industry, is in the best position to provide this service. Yet, they already may have stumbled in this effort, as the Bertelsmann deal--in an arrangement typical of New Economy partnerships--includes provisions for Bertelsmann to make a significant investment in Napster. While on its face the investment option legitimizes Napster, it could create conflicts of interest for the company...