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...Many individuals didn't participate in the stock market's rise, preferring the income streams of CDs," the report predicted of the '90s. That's what you call missing the dominant trend of our time. Half of all Americans came to own stocks in the '90s, an all-time high. Here's another gem: "The explosive coming of age of Japanese consumers, central European producers and Latin American governments lowered U.S. successes to second-tier status," the report reads. Well, whiff again. That scenario may develop in the next 10 years, but it doesn't come close to describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Vision, Big Gain | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...DRIVE'S THE THING Don't settle for less than a DVD-ROM, which can play your old CDs as well as dvd movies. Consider a built-in rewritable CD-ROM drive. It's great for making your own music discs and storing digital photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1999 Technology Buyer's Guide: Macs Are Back, PCs Power Up: Either Way, You Win | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...sans PC, still gives an occasional nod to the desktop computer. Its new Music Clip plays 2 hrs. of digital music on a single AA, but gets tunes, via USB cable, from a PC. Available in January, the Clip includes Sony's OpenMG Jukebox software to copy songs off CDs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the company is undergoing an internal privacy-policy review, and an outside auditor will be brought in for a final seal of good privacy housekeeping. But right now, there's a log file somewhere in Seattle that has my name in it, as well as the Allan Sherman CDs that I've been playing, and that ticks me off. If a good company like Glaser's can go astray, who knows what the bad guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Was Listening | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Laskey of Gray, Me., gets $25 a month deposited into her iCanBuy account in lieu of an allowance. So far Elisabeth has bought some CDs, pencils and shirts. "I've only been on for a couple months, so I don't have much money saved yet," Elisabeth says. "But I'm thinking about saving some more and maybe donating some to charity." Elisabeth has learned one major financial lesson from her online shopping account: "Once it's in there, it's my money, and I get to decide what I want to do with it. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Electronic Allowances | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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