Business model? How about a supermodel?
Yourday.com allows its customers to receive wake-up calls and meeting reminders as recorded telephone messages from French supermodel Laetitia Casta. According to the company, "In a survey conducted in April, over 90 percent of men polled found the idea of being woken up by a supermodel appealing."
Money is the best medicine.
Several executives at health site Drkoop.com broke corporate insider-trading rules by selling stock earlier than permitted after the company's initial public offering. As a sign of good faith, company director Richard Helpie returned $76 he made selling 400 shares at a 19-cent-per-share profit. He held about 5 million shares of Drkoop.com stock at the time.
Sonic the hedge fund.
Japan's Nomura Securities plans to provide a CD to users of Sega's Dreamcast video game console that will let gamers trade stocks online through Dreamcast's Internet connection.
There would have been 113, but the other Linux user was in line for Star Wars: Phantom Menace tickets.
An estimated 112 Linux users proclaimed February 15 Windows Refund Day and picketed Microsoft offices in several cities to demand refunds for pre installed Windows software they were not using. In a dismissive letter, Microsoft referred them to the individual manufacturers of their computers.
AOL also relinquished exclusive rights to the phrase "We apologize for the temporary service outage."
A federal court ruled in August against America Online, which was trying to stop AT&T's Internet service from using terms such as buddy list, IM (for instant message), and You have mail.
Everybody plays. Nobody wins.
Garry Kasparov challenged everybody in the world at once to an online chess match on MSN.com. The public selected moves by popular vote from a list of experts' suggestions. At press time, after four months of play, the game was winding down to a probable draw.
