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...history. Three French companies produce more than two-thirds of the world's smart cards, a $12 billion business set to explode as companies discover the limits of the familiar magnetic-strip card, which can hold relatively little information and is not nearly as secure for e-commerce. Jean-Marc Giry, vice president for strategic marketing at Gemplus, one of three French firms that dominate the world market for smart-card banking applications, expects most U.S. banks and credit-card companies to begin issuing smart cards this year...
...Marc Eery expects to earn about $1 million this year selling seed for high-octane marijuana and books on how to grow it. Most of his customers live in Vancouver, not far from his illegal mail-order business, which is largely ignored by Canadian authorities. It's not a place widely regarded as a hotbed of pot cultivation, but that's changing fast, and Emery, 42, steps to his office window to demonstrate...
...This is by no means over," says Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who helped lead the fight. In fact, DoubleClick has not called off its plans but only shelved them until the government and industry can agree on a set of privacy standards. Surfer, beware...
...There have been a couple of added privacy features," said Marc M. Pollack, UHS assistant director for finance. Among the new measures is an improved system for mental health appointments...
...grown more interested in her cultural heritage. Now that she's a mainstream star, she wants to be a Latin star too, and she's recording a Latin version of her debut CD. Says Rudy Perez, who is producing the project: "She sees Ricky [Martin] and Jennifer [Lopez] and Marc [Anthony] and in her own way, she has come to realize she wants to connect with her roots...