Word: virtualization
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...more than half the viewing audience when the BBC aired it last fall, are pure computer animation and animatronic puppetry. But unlike Jurassic Park's behemoths, Walking's dinos spend most of their time eating, mating and migrating in between the odd Allosaurus attack. Beastly but bucolic, they're virtual animals, not monsters...
Indeed, everyone is. The violent swings of the NASDAQ over the past month have overshadowed the virtual collapse of many battered online companies--e-tailers such as grocer Peapod and music seller CDNow and information-and-advice sites like drkoop.com--that a year ago were among Wall Street's highflyers but now may be down for the count. Stock prices of these hemorrhaging havenot.coms have plunged 50% to 75% below their 12-month highs, and many trade below their initial offering price. Case in point: shares of TheStreet.com a financial-news-and-advice site, peaked...
...Virtual news anchor: reads news aloud on your computer...
...Virtual model, does runway and pitches stuff...
...Napster software connects you with a virtual community where you can trade MP3 files with other users transferring files directly from their hard drive to yours. And you don't have to worry about security because Napster recognizes only MP3 files. As far as we know, there's no way for other Napster users to look inside your computer and grab other types of files...