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...Rajiv Dutta, eBay's chief financial officer, did not exactly clarify matters by posing the rhetorical question, "How do we make 1+1 equal to greater than 2?" Tech blogs are atwitter trying to figure out what's really behind this. Internet telecom pioneer Jeff Pulver hailed it as a new frontier in marrying e-commerce with communications. But longtime Web observer and Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, suggests that the deal is a desperate attempt by eBay to find new subscribers and to stem fraud. EBay is not alone on the internet phone bandwagon. In the past few weeks...
...born to the role: son of a Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he'd race through phrases, then put a twist on the crucial word. Unlike most other Hollywood actors, who relax and seem to bathe in their star quality, Lemmon worked hard. He let you read his reading of the character. His acting was less about being than about doing...
...even painful heights is of course proof of his actorly genius, which certainly seemed to spring from some deep sense of haplessness in the man himself. Lemmon liked to tell the story of the night he won his first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor as the unforgettable Ensign Pulver in 1955's "Mister Roberts...
...your business is on the Net, ask your system administrator if you could list its servers as the hosts. Since this costs the hosting site nothing--it's strictly a routing and administrative function that allows people to find your site--it's worth a try. My friend Jeff Pulver, who has a T1 line that connects his home to the Internet at 1.5 million bits per second, agreed to host quittner.com And now it's mine. Of course, I'd be happy to sell it to you--consider it a steal at $1 million...
...Susan Wynn, an allergist who practices in Fort Worth, Texas, first noticed the problem at the beginning of February. Dr. William Berger of Mission Viejo, Calif., picked up on it two weeks later. That was just about when Dr. Donald Pulver of Rochester, N.Y., realized, as he puts it, that "everybody, including my wife, was complaining about itchy eyes, stuffy nose, dry cough--the classic signs of an allergy attack." Classic, except that the allergy season wasn't due to begin for at least a month...