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- 'Packaged Internet' Will be Sold as Both Product and Service - As new ways of packaging the Web force packagers to rethink their business models, Michael Schrage rethinks WebTV. [Wired News]
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- 2-D Dream Job at a 3-D Studio - Superscape produces 3-D authoring tools, but finds itself lacking a 2-D specialist. [Wired News]
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- @Home May Throw Its Name in the IPO Hat - Sources say the company recently staged a "coming out party" for bankers. [Wired News]
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- Acrobat's Dream Job: Cirque du Soleil, Planet Earth - This nontraditional circus is hiring unconventional athletes [Wired News]
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- Adding Insult to Online Services' Injuries - Ned Brainard: MSN gets the bird while other online services get smaller. [Wired News]
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- All the Web's a Stage for Nonprofit Influence - The Web offers a chance to redefine what it means to be a museum. [Wired News]
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- AltaVista Breaks Ban on Selling Ad Space - AltaVista had shunned ads in the name of speed, but studies showing ads on search engines are increasingly profitable changed its mind. [Wired News]
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- An Advertorial License to Kill News Ethics? - New media journalism requires a new ethical model. [Wired News]
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- Another Tricky Day at Comdex - Amid the white noise, a little news trickled out at Comdex. [Wired News]
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- Apple Buyout of Be Appears Unlikely - Apple will cobble together an operating system. [Wired News]
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- Apple Enmeshed in OS Machinations - Power plays in the media mark the countdown to Apple's announcement of its next-generation operating system. [Wired News]
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- Atmosphere is Less Than Gay at PlanetOut - Is PlanetOut becoming Planet Wipeout? [Wired News]
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- Backlash against Foreign Media Mounts in India - Rupert Murdoch may not get his cable deal in India, as the Indian parliament prepares to limit private broadcasting and regulate content. [Wired News]
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- Be-FUDdlement in Redmond - Microsoft was definitely up to something last week. The media seems to have missed it - except for Ned Brainard. [Wired News]
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- Beat That Tap - It's PGP For Sale - Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy, a pioneer in free email encryption software, is set to launch three commercial encryption products on Monday. [Wired News]
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- Bells, Netscape Team to Swap Users and Browsers - Five ISPs pick Netscape for their default browser in return for a listing on Netscape's access page. [Wired News]
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- Biotech Dream Job: Geeks and Genes - An Oakland-based software company that produces research tools is hiring a 'bioinformaticist.' [Wired News]
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- Blockbuster Gets a Makeover, Broader Focus - CD-ROMs, toys, and candy are just a few of the items the chain is adding to its shelves. But analysts wonder whether the company can make the leap beyond videos and away from drooping revenue growth. [Wired News]
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- Bloomberg to Expand Its Web Presence - "You want to be there. You want to play with it," the financial service's CEO says of the Web, part of Bloomberg's aggressive growth plan. [Wired News]
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- Boston Dream Job: Senior Editor for Fast Company - The magazine is futuro-finance writing for the new suits: the entreprenerds. [Wired News]
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- Brokering for the Masses - Using speech-recognition software, Charles Schwab's system relates real-time stock quotes over the telephone. [Wired News]
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- BS Detector: Expiring a Credit-Card Scam - Will the 'Millennium Bug' bump credit cards offline in 2000? Don't bet on it. [Wired News]
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- Cablevision Plugs Into Net Access - With the capability to transmit high-speed data and offer full-time connectivity, new cable services allow users to remain logged on all the time without tying up the phone. But don't expect service in your area any time soon. [Wired News]
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- Cahners' Trade Site to Go Global - Now all the site needs for it to take off is for companies to understand its usefulness. [Wired News]
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- Christmas Shoppers Boost Net Stores Sales - Christmas shoppers are flocking to Internet stores for last-minute gifts, sending sales up significantly over 1995 totals, Net retailers say. [Wired News]
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- Comdex Keynotes Focus on Net - Barksdale brings Comdex back to Earth [Wired News]
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- Competitors Unite on Emerging-Markets Data - Three companies that usually compete are pooling online data on emerging markets. [Wired News]
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- CompuServe Fails to WOW! Consumers - It's been one rough week for the nation's oldest online service. [Wired News]
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- Contract Dream Job: Travel to India - A New York-based Web studio needs to send a producer to Udaipur, India, to develop a prototype site for the Ministry of Tourism in a bid for a palace. [Wired News]
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- Court Tells MCI to Stop Misleading Ads - MCI's claim that its rates "are always lower than Ameritech's" is bogus, a judge rules. [Wired News]
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- Crawling Comdex: Just Wait Till Next Year - Mark Frauenfelder takes one last look at the casinos, the giveaways, the soggy trash ... [Wired News]
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- Crawling Comdex: Mob Brownout - Gray skies, sore feet, the call of 'Adultex' and kindly casino girls: Comdex according to Mark Frauenfelder. [Wired News]
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- Crawling Comdex: MSN's New Deal - Mark Frauenfelder finds content-free MSN squeezing $400 million into a cramped Comdex corner. [Wired News]
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- Crypto Dream Job: Development Manager - Led by a true believer, C2Net has found a workaround for US cryptography export laws, and it's hiring. [Wired News]
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- Denmark Dream Job: Design For Araneum - A five-person Web studio in downtown Copenhagen wants to bring a high caliber of design to Danish Web sites. [Wired News]
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- Dream Job: Manage QA for Palladium Interactive - Become the superego for the programmers and testers of new CD-ROM projects [Wired News]
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- Excite Enrolls in Education Market - The search engine seeks to help kids learn and help its business earn. [Wired News]
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- FAA Contract Keeps InVision on the Radar Screen - The FAA taps a small California-based company to provide scanners for US airports. [Wired News]
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- Finance Dream Job: Dancers and Dollars - Theater production company has a hit with Tap Dogs and needs someone to keep the books balanced. [Wired News]
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- First Courtroom Defeat for Computer Keyboard Maker - Will a Brooklyn jury's verdict cause keyboard makers much legal grief, or force them to reconsider ergonomics? Probably not. [Wired News]
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- Flatiron VC Fund Pins Hopes on Silicon Alley - The new venture-capital fund is betting on finding some gems among New York's Internet companies. [Wired News]
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- Forrester Research to Go Public - The company whose research has bolstered many tech IPOs is itself seeking to go public. [Wired News]
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- Gates' Neighbors Cry NIMBY Over Unsightly Towers - The tiny town that's home to tech-loving, cell-phoning elite fights feds over wireless antennae. [Wired News]
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- Gateway Has a Beef with Site's Use of Cow Imagery - The PC maker claims the cows on a Canadian shareware site violate its trademark. [Wired News]
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- Geek Dream Job: Cafe or New Media Company? - There's more than music and food at House of Blues - there's a sysadmin job waiting for someone who knows their operating systems, can write Java applets on the fly, and has 'a long history of being a tinkerer.' [Wired News]
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- Holiday Dream Job: Peace, Not PCs - Volunteering at San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church offers some serious glory. [Wired News]
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- How Cisco's Web Strategy Translates into Big Bucks - Michael Schrage says only a Net naif would fail to pay extremely close attention when Cisco announces plans to move into e-commerce. [Wired News]
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- Human Rights Dream Job: Research and Advocacy Online - Work for an organization whose goal is to hold governments accountable if they transgress the rights of their people. [Wired News]
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- India Gives Murdoch TV Development Go-Ahead - Murdoch is poised to ride Indian cable TV growth. [Wired News]
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- Interactive Dream Job: Assistant Produce for NBC - This is an entry-level job, but it's at NBC, so it offers a tempting peek into the belly of the whale. [Wired News]
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- Intrusive Ads Gain Credibility Among Net Marketers - In a ploy for attention, ads invade the browser. [Wired News]
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- Japanese Bringing PDAs Back from the Dead - It's the product that wouldn't die. This time, blame it on Japan. [Wired News]
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- Jobs' OS Will Be Apple's Next Big Thing - Steve Jobs' return may not help much in focusing the company - but his NextStep operating system may be Apple's last chance to remain a viable alternative to the Wintel duopoly. [Wired News]
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- Knight-Ridder Dream Job: Ink to Pixels - The Knight-Ridder New Media Center in San Jose oversees Web sites for 31 newspapers and needs a director. [Wired News]
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- LA Dream Job: Journalism Minus the Struggle - Microsoft's Sidewalk is going after the weeklies' beat, and is looking for help. [Wired News]
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- Library Dream Job: High-Tech Navigation - Etak, a Silicon Valley digital mapping company, is rapidly expanding and needs another librarian. [Wired News]
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- London Dream Job: Produce for Agency.com - Handle British Airways' electronic marketing, Web transactions, kiosks, and soon, 'seatback entertainment.' [Wired News]
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- Marketing Dream Job: Build Buzz Around Chat - Austin software start-up ichat seeks a VP. [Wired News]
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- Marketing Dream Job: Create a Brand for Diba - This company is going head-to-head with WebTV to bring the Net into an appliance near you. [Wired News]
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- Maui Dream Job: Animate for Synchronic - Living in an island paradise isn't the only perk to this job. Right next door is a supercomputer. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft and NBC to Beef Up Sports Site - A planned online sports site would pit Microsoft against Starwave's successful SportsZone site. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft Ratings Filter Sets off Alarms - The fledgling Net coalition is under fire over Redmond's ties to a proposed system. [Wired News]
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- Microsoft to Offer Its First Dividend - The move is one usually made by the more musclebound blue-chips with slim prospects for capital gains. [Wired News]
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- Money, Duty, and Net Real Estate - A financial planner says he has a 'moral obligation' to sell his domain name for $500,000. [Wired News]
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- More Victims Tossed Atop NetGuide's Burning Pyre - Ned Brainard gossips about last week's slashing and burning at NetGuide Live, and Starwave's intimidating, if futile, attempts to keep the wraps on its plans for a news Web site in association with ABC. [Wired News]
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- MTV Tries Cable Revenue Model on the Net - But do surfers want their MTV so bad they're willing to pay for it online? [Wired News]
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- Music Dream Job: Design for Indie Bands - Canadian label with a multimedia bent needs to staff up as employees hit the road with the bands. [Wired News]
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- Navigator's Dream Job: Build Digital Maps for NavTech - Research analysts work in the field, gathering data for map builders in the offices. [Wired News]
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- Netcom Wants to Divide Highway into Fast, Slow Lanes - The popular ISP is betting its new price structure will become the most profitable way to give Internet access. [Wired News]
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- NetGuide Live Kicks 24 Out Its Doors - The company calls it "rightsizing", but laid-off workers say it was done the wrong way. [Wired News]
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- Netscape Bruised, But Still Fighting Browser War - PointCast's decision to use Explorer 4.0 as its default is yet another blow, but analysts say Netscape can still prevail. [Wired News]
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- NTT Aims to Win Breakup on Its Own Terms - The Japanese phone monopoly has learned a few lessons from AT T's breakup. [Wired News]
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- Number of ISPs Doubled in '96 - A new survey suggests small ISPs are faring well among the bigger ISPs such as AT T and Netcom. [Wired News]
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- Online Classifieds Threaten Newspapers, Study Says - Papers that aren't moving ads online early will find a key source of revenues vanishing, a report warns. [Wired News]
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- Patents Fuel Silicon Valley's Underground Bazaar - If you're the owner of a software patent, you may be the lucky holder of a ticket that'll get you into the world's most exclusive swap meet. [Wired News]
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- PBS Dream Job: Coordinate Online Children's Content - Here's your chance to bring a little Big Bird back into your life. [Wired News]
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- PC Vendor Fights ISP Credit-Card Trap - Dan Technology of the UK is pushing customers to sign up with an ISP that doesn't demand credit-card numbers for a free trial. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Jumps Out of Netscape's Bed, Into Microsoft's - PointCast will make Explorer 4.0 its default browser, an honor it had promised to Netscape's Navigator. [Wired News]
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- PointCast Pushes for Health - The company is adding new channels as Microsoft and other companies line up their 'PointCast killers.' [Wired News]
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- Poppe Tyson Pulls IPO - The online ad company's move is another sign that Internet stocks have lost their sparkle with investors. [Wired News]
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- Redmond Report: The Lower-Caste Life of a Microsoft Temp - Microsoft's contract workers aren't just lacking benefits. They also don't get any birthday cake. [Wired News]
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- Regulators Question AOL's New Prices - AOL's plan to switch prices without notifying customers may fall outside state consumer laws. [Wired News]
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- Rudderless I/PRO Struggles Against Tide of Criticism - Ned Brainard gossips about the Internet audience counters and auditors currently suffering from a lack of vision, a reluctant market and bloodthirsty VCs. [Wired News]
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- ScamBusters Digs Up Dirt on Online Fraud - Internet marketing consultants publish an issue of their Web zine whenever they learn of a new rip-off, usually from a reader's tip-off. [Wired News]
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- SF Dream Job: Sysadmin for Electric Minds - Work for a company whose calling is community-building through cross-media publishing. [Wired News]
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- Slow News Days Breed "Best of" Fest - The Net media has a lot to learn when it comes to year-end doldrums, Ned Brainard says. [Wired News]
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- Software Snafu Takes Down Bell Atlantic - Bell Atlantic mucks up a software installation; phone service goes down in seven states. [Wired News]
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- Spammer Slips by More Monster Obstacles - Bulk emailer Cyber Promotions, closed out by Sprint, invents system for evading shut-downs. [Wired News]
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- Spending on Web Ads: What Goes Around, Comes Around - It's remarkably circular: Those who spend a lot, make a lot. [Wired News]
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- Sprint Logs on With Microsoft - Sprint has joined AT T, CompuServe, MCI, and AOL in forging an Internet-based relationship with Microsoft after initially partnering with Netscape. [Wired News]
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- Sun, Other Giants Gang Up to Fight Microsoft - An alliance formed by Sun Microsystems and more than 100 other companies - including Apple and Oracle - may be the last chance Microsoft's competitors have to ensure an alternative to Windows. [Wired News]
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- Super Bowl Broadcast by Wire - Not Cable, But Net - Starwave and Fox will launch Superbowl.com, an official Super Bowl Web site. So why wasn't ESPN in the announcements? [Wired News]
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- TCI Pulls $125 Million MSN Investment - The move reflects a growing gap between the two companies Internet strategies. [Wired News]
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- TCI's Chickens Come Home to Roost - With some US$21 billion in liabilities on its books, the cable giant is entering a period of painful change. [Wired News]
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- Tech Dream Job: Geek Among Designers - Former Apple creative director Clement Mok and his crew at Studio Archetype need a chief technologist. [Wired News]
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- The 'Year of the Net' Ends With a Whimper - Ned Brainard gossips about year-end financier fickleness, and BackWeb paranoia. [Wired News]
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- The Comdex Crawler: Browser Box Wars - Bandai's Pippin and WebTV's set-top box are fighting for your living room. [Wired News]
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- The Kingdom of José Cuervo: Ad Campaign or Republic? - Yes, Cuervo Tequila bought an island off the coast of Tortola and declared independence. [Wired News]
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- The Romance and Wreck of TELE-TV - At first, Ovitz's touch worked wonders, but these days logic, not glitz, is prevailing. [Wired News]
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- The Spin Hits the Fan at Comdex - Hundreds of announcements later, a few bits of news emerge from the Comdex static. [Wired News]
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- UC San Francisco Dream Job: Web Administration - This science grad school is relying more on the Web and is hiring its first webmaster. [Wired News]
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- Unleash the Hounds: New Media's Old Watchdogs - Net-based journalism fancies itself as self-policing. But email and newsgroups alone don't make new media accountable. [Wired News]
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- Vermont Dream Job: Specialize in Ice Cream as Commodity - Travel to cool places, find yummy ingredients, and forecast the future for an ice cream company with a conscience. [Wired News]
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- Volunteer Dream Job: AIDS Patient Hair Stylist - The country's largest AIDS service organization delivers everything from child care to hair care. [Wired News]
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- Voyager Absorbs Holtzbrinck Electronic Publishing - A new deal promises to alter Voyager's mission, from innovation to market-driven. [Wired News]
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- Weak Telecom Brands a Plus for Electronics Makers - Branding was never a strong suit for most telecom companies. So names like Sanyo, Samsung, and Sony are finding their way onto cellular phones and even phone services. [Wired News]
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- Web Offers Holiday Shoppers a Virtual Wonderland of Gifts - Online retailers expect a pre-Christmas rush just like their department-store counterparts. [Wired News]
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- Will Consumers Get Wise to Smart Cards? - Eight financial giants are working together on the Mondex "smart card," but it's unclear whether consumers or merchants will use them. [Wired News]
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