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DROP TILL THEY SHOP Sony just cut the price of its popular PlayStation 2 game console from $299 to $199. Microsoft quickly followed suit, lest its struggling Xbox system get dusted by the industry leader. Nintendo, which released its GameCube at $199, says it's standing pat, at least...
...analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave of the future by pledging $2 billion to develop an online game network and the Xbox. Family Corrections H A judge ordered the return of a $1 billion stake in Gazprom that former managers sold to their relatives' firm for a mere $2.5 million. The state will now have a 55.6% share in Russia's biggest company...
Frontier's families spend more than five months farming, cooking, tending livestock and felling trees--an especially hard life for the Xbox-deprived kids. But the real drama is psychological. Competitive Tennesseans Karen and Mark Glenn squabble with each other and with the Clunes--well-off, whiny Californians who sneak in food and gear, rationalizing that pioneers would have cheated to survive if they could have. (The Brookses, a young interracial couple, are neighborly and mellow, and thus get relatively little screen time.) The couples clash over purity of lifestyle, rules and personalities, all within a context of earnest communitarianism...
...instead of routers and hubs near the computers in the den, you had a souped-up TV set-top box equipped with its own broadband Internet connection and networking capabilities--and that this "gateway" connected not just the family PCs and printers but also the stereo, dvd player and Xbox video console, even the house alarm and central air conditioning...
...demand has come mostly from manufacturers of PCs, next-generation cell phones and consumer electronics, including ever more sophisticated game consoles such as Xbox and GameCube. But telecom companies have stepped up their pace too. "Later in the year, we could see a real surprise," says analyst Chris Chaney at A.G. EDWARDS. "Someone like Intel could come in with a big order for new equipment." Chaney favors the equipment makers, which he views as better values than the chipmakers. The equipment companies' shares also tend to be earlier movers, because chipmakers must buy more equipment before they can produce more...