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...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...
...have explicitly voiced aloud in a nation still silenced by censors. Produced by 17-year-old director Samira Makhmalbaf, The Apple suggested to the young masses of Iran--youth born after 1979 now comprise over two-thirds of Iran's population--that their generation must find a way to unlock the doors that muffle their voices...