Word: networker
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...household. That means more sites visited, banners clicked and e-commerce transacted--and AT&T (as well as Microsoft) wants a piece of all that fast-growing action. The company already has a wide array of Internet products and e-commerce applications ready to deploy over the nascent network. Gradually, through television advertisements, mailings and those annoying phone calls, AT&T's AtHome could become an online brand to rival AOL. "They are going to hit you on ESPN, on CNN, on NBC, saying AtHome is now available," says Tom Henderson, analyst at Janco Partners Inc. "I think AtHome wins...
...time that Null's book, the 1,000-plus-page Get Healthy Now!, is exploding onto the best-seller list, questions are being raised about just what brand of medicine it is that he's out there peddling. In recent months there was vocal resistance within the public broadcasting network to showing Null's videos during pledge drives, in part because of concerns about the sensational claims he was making and the somewhat shaky science with which he backed them up. Other critics are uneasy about Null's shoot-from-the-hip style, his edgy tone and his conspicuous lack...
...that dawned on BRYANT GUMBEL'S career at CBS last week looked a lot like the old days, only with a few more clouds. The network announced that Gumbel, who in 1997 pulled up anchor at NBC's top-rated Today show, would return to morning television as host of ratings bottom dweller CBS This Morning. This is despite the fact that CBS president Leslie Moonves said last year that Gumbel would "rather be shot in the head than move back to mornings." Gumbel, who has a $5 million contract with CBS, has been relatively dormant since his prime-time...
...never been part of the good old boys' network. I think you'll see much more effective experimentation on many issues," O'Connor said...
America Online announced new venues Tuesday for connecting customers to the Internet, focusing on set-top boxes that sometime next year should bring online access through the television. The partnerships with TV and computer equipments makers such as DirectTV, Hughes Network Systems, Philips Electronics and Network Computer come a week after AOL's dominance seemed threatened by AT&T's growing cable empire and deals with At Home and Microsoft. The set-top box is supposed to hold special appeal for the half of U.S. households that don't have a computer, a market that AOL must tap in order...