Word: virtually
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...small problem: while there are thousands of online book clubs for discussing, not buying, books, I quickly learned that most have no focused topic to discuss. What's worse, many are virtual ghost towns long since abandoned by their participants. Unwilling to admit failure--or admit how little time I had spent "researching" this idea--I plowed through dozens of clubs until I found some winners...
...talking the virtual version of HIV here. There was no malicious intent. The greatest effect so far noted in Code Red's last go-round two weeks ago was that the White House website, the ultimate target of its initial attacks, had to change its IP address. Hands up anyone, even anyone who was surfing the White House website at that exact moment, who noticed...
...There is such a thing as white-hat hacking, where large corporations hire the most clever and mischievous of virtual raiders to probe their defenses for weaknesses. At its broadest definition, all hacking is white-hat hacking. Without it, the Internet would be like the Martians at the end of H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds: destroyed the moment we left our sterile, germ-free environment...
...should be, but too many e-banks have provided customer service that is virtual, as in virtually nonexistent. One ex-patron says he spent 40 minutes on hold every time he called NetBank. Jim Bruene, editor of Online Banking Report, agrees that virtual banks need faster service. "Now you're lucky to get an e-mail response in two days," he says. "At some point, that response at a good wired bank will be in two minutes...
...since low overhead enables virtual banks to offer checking accounts with an average of triple the interest and half the maintenance fees of off-line banks, according to Bankrate.com Now, with slow customer growth and high marketing costs, the e-field is narrowing. Bank One is grounding WingspanBank.com after a $150 million launch. CompuBank sold its accounts to NetBank in March, and Lighthousebank is looking for a buyer...