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...securities fraud. The defendants are said to have defrauded investors out of at least $50 million over five years, often using the Internet to hype falsified and/or inflated stocks. The charges, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, included 16 indictments and seven criminal complaints, and targeted a dazzling array of stockbrokers and fund managers; a former New York City police detective and various corporate insiders were also named...
Wearing all this stuff is the easy part of the aging game; what's harder is performing the various tasks Chutka demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile...
When I registered for my.harvard, I came across a wide array of services that came with the essential post forwarding address. There were bulletin boards, chat rooms, "professional connections"--I breathed a sigh of relief...
They may have little chance. "An independent site that focuses on beauty alone cannot survive," argues Jupiter Communications' Mike May, who notes that the cost of luring new customers to even a vast array of little-known brands will probably put Web-only players out of business. According to a study by Shop.org it costs Web-only ventures more than twice as much as clicks-and-bricks firms to win a new customer...
There's plenty more to come. Next year cell-phone service providers will begin offering an array of games you can play over their networks. Users will pay for them just as they do for a regular cell-phone call. In return, they'll get such options as playing poker with a friend in Fresno or entering the lottery on the fly. Nokia has even shown a text-based detective game. Rather than clicking on a picture as you would in Myst, say, you read a bit of the storyline, then choose what to do next from a list...