Word: hype
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years, the securities industry in the U.S. and elsewhere has been host to fast-buck brokerage firms that have ridden the back of the bull market like so many parasites. Typically, they hype penny stocks in tiny companies that are all promise and no delivery and then close up shop when the market hiccups or the regulators catch on, leaving gullible investors to count their losses...
There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...
...that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...Internet-TV terminals, PDAs and cell phones, we've settled our prize for best machine on the new Nintendo 64, which has done to video-gaming what the 707 did to air travel. Since arriving on American shores in late September, the 64 has set records for sales, hype and, most important, slack jaws. The pure mix of art and technology implicit in the machine's design and the games that run on it help it transcend the category of mere amusement. It sets, our editors found, a whole new standard in electronic entertainment, smashing barriers that the bug-filled...
...beginning of the meeting, Hyman announced his decision to the council regarding the $1000 agent fee the council racked up in a botched search for band to play at HYPE. This had previously been a source of controversy on the council...