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METRICOM RICOCHET $220, plus $60 to $100 a month; available in August Cruising at 128 Kbps, the Ricochet network will turbo-charge the wireless...
...voyeur shows by The Real World in 1992 (Season 9, in New Orleans, airs this summer). "We're seeing Real World copied, but we're not getting any royalties," jokes co-creator Jonathan Murray of Bunim/Murray Productions, which is currently developing reality programs for ABC. In one, the network plans to create an online magazine and "cast" journalists both to write for the magazine and to star in the show...
...shed the rubber, paper and other businesses in favor of a new focus: wireless telecom. As a junior exec in charge of the mobile-phones division, Ollila, a former banker with a master's degree from the London School of Economics, had thrown his support behind an emerging digital network standard known as GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), a gamble that has paid off handsomely. Today GSM rules more than half the wireless world, and Nokia's sales of GSM phones account for most of its 30% global market share. Nokia's big coup came in 1998 when...
FOURTH The Web. Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler announce a rare hookup. They will link all their tens of thousands of suppliers into a single, Internet-based network. This entity will encompass $250 billion annually of suppliers' products (and perhaps an additional $500 billion of those suppliers' suppliers' products). In short, every penny of waste will be wrung from the mammoth procurement system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically. Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medical supplies, DigitalThink in training, CarStation in the auto-body-shop world. This is the white-hot world of B2B (business to business...
...Bradys and, by extension, TV. In one scene the Brady boys explore the Paramount lot, racing a cart through a gangster shootout and playing with phasers on the set of Star Trek. It's a big, slobbery kiss to TV past, and an ironic one coming from the network that vaporized the original Trek...