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...owned by Microsoft) that displays fares provided by all carriers, Orbitz is owned by American Airlines, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United, which alone account for more than three quarters of the total U.S. air travel market. While Orbitz, which is already serving customers ahead of its scheduled launch in June, also includes fares from other airlines, Southwest claims it being treated unfairly on the site, saying that Orbitz is using airline information without Southwest's permission and is posting flights that don't actually exist. They say that while Orbitz's home page cheerily claims to offer the lowest fares...
...Real should know this better than anyone. The company owns 40% of MusicNet, the brand-new AOL-Time Warner/Bertelsmann/EMI collaboration that will supposedly open the floodgates to mass-market, legal music downloads. With that service set to launch this summer, it's high time RJP set itself up for the deluge. No one else is in such a good position, with millions of users and with MusicNet working just down the corridor. Yet the only update planned to the service is to allow users to burn special MP3 CDs as well as the regular...
...Rudenstine—a president who once had large pizza-box signs in the Yard proclaiming students’ love for him—now departs a College in which he has seen as remote, in which student protesters launch their anger at him, Harvard’s most visible leader. At a University whose reach is so vast and whose population so large, connecting with students—once his forte—became an impossibility...
Though Leahy denies the figure, launch customers such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin and Qantas are reportedly buying the A380 for as much as 40% off the original list price of $235 million--compared with $215 million for the biggest version of the 747. To recoup the $10.7 billion it will expend to birth the A380, Airbus must sell 250 of them in five years. "The company has an awful lot of eggs in that basket," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I. "The A380 will live or die on its own sales...
...Europe and Asia have paid dearly for 3G licenses, the whole mobile revolution looks further off than once seemed likely. The Financial Times recently reported that only two of the 11 manufacturers with whom NTT DoCoMo had signed contracts for 3G handsets would be ready for a scheduled launch of the service in May. Meanwhile, manufacturers like Ericsson, Motorola and Siemens are scaling back their projections for today's mobile phones, never mind tomorrow's; Ericsson's shares tumbled to a 17-month low after the company said that it expected handset sales to be considerably lower in 2001 than...