Hewlett-Packard has invented a wireless data chip that can store 100 pages of text or 15 seconds of video on a dot about half the size of a rice grain, with potentially dramatic applications in everything from health care to photography and marketing.
The special focus on Blodget, who was already widely mocked for his giddiness about dot-coms and who has left Merrill, gave the sense that Spitzer was aiming for the easiest target with the highest reward.
The answer is to get inventive: what about the Pacific dot of Tuvalu and its .tv?
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With the exception of small travel agencies, most of us dodged the cyberbullets of the 1990s and lived to chuckle about the overblown dot-com threat.
The chip, which requires no power, works like this: Up to four megabits of data are put into the chip by touching the dot with an encased coil about the width of a pencil eraser.
The timing, which combines a local recession and hints of the end of the dot.com bubble with worries about the millennium bug, is scarcely propitious.
The San Francisco-based start-up is attempting something that was attempted before about a decade ago during the dot-com boom: to act as an infomediary between consumers and advertisers.
If NBC has the Net rights sewn up, which it believes it does, then the dot-coms may not have much to talk about in Lausanne.
Groupon represents what the dot-com boom was supposed to be all about: huge sales, easy profits and solid connection between bricks-and-mortar retailers and online consumers.
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It suggests that the Internet Age is now about to end, with a mass extinction of dot-coms as sweeping and complete as the one of reptiles at the end of the Jurassic.
She says it's not about returning to the tech-bubble days of the dot-com era.
Currently, about 15 major carriers provide monthly incident reports to the DOT, which posts that information online.
The media squawked about the return of the hedonism and lavish parties of the dot com era.
By that time, the dot-coms had gone bust, and no one even wanted to think about going public.
Dave Chesson, a state DOT spokesman, said there were no signs leading up to the bridge warning about its clearance height.
While the previous Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, took rates to 6.5% to pierce the dot-com bubble of the 1990s, Bernanke seems to be betting that about 5.5% will be sufficient to prick the housing bubble.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
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Chambers told CNN she didn't know anything about that meeting but said the group is supposed to meet with the DOT at some point.
Then it was left out in the cold, as Silicon Valley created the microchip revolution and just about all the other excitement of the 1980s and 1990s, down to the dot-com binge.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
Under the proposal, which Mr. Silver said he expected to send to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the next few weeks, the DOT would begin issuing permits to bus companies that would also allow the city to begin gathering information about their operations.
About the only remaining appeal of airline travel is getting to a wonderful spot that is just a dot on the map.
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The dot.com revolution had begun transforming global commerce and culture, and military thinking was infected with viral ideas about how wireless networks might change warfare.
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