Word: warners
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...company pioneered such techniques as automatic transfers over the telephone, and is developing a slew of advanced phone and computer products to speed the transactions. Fidelity also sees new markets in the thousands of corporations for which it administers 401(k) plans (including this magazine's parent company, Time Warner). It wants to persuade those customers to let it handle data-dense departments such as medical insurance, human resources and payroll as well. The attraction for corporations is lower cost. The attraction for employees is one-stop shopping for everything from address changes to changing their pension contributions. The attraction...
...that men are "cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen," all that solo flying seems to be less than thrilling. That must be why self-help books on dating have at last evolved into The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right (Warner Books...
...fiber solution, though, comes only at dreadful expense. Time Warner, says Britt, spent close to $175 a home upgrading Akron for the Road Runner launch. At 300,000 homes, that comes to $52.5 million in fiber alone for one midsize market. At that rate, upgrading Time Warner's entire 11.8 million-home empire would cost more than $2 billion--and that doesn't include the cost of the modems ($400 a subscriber, but probably dropping fast) and other expenses...
...converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television. "Eventually this architecture will let us do what we've done in Orlando," says Britt, referring to Time Warner's famously costly interactive TV adventure. "We'd like to attach our cable to any video or telephone device you have in your house...
...course, deliver their own programming. Road Runner already offers its subscribers, among reams of Akron-related news and information, a catalog of brand names from the Time Warner entertainment cornucopia, including Time Inc. Magazines, TIME-LIFE Books and Warner Bros. Online. @Home takes a similar tack, signing up a rich roster of content partners and designing a user-friendly interface to guide users to them...