If that takes you back just a bit, then perhaps you're ready for "push-to-talk, " which appears to be the craze of the moment among wireless service providers eager to attract business users and increase the amount of airtime they use each month.
When we were young we profited from the craze of underground parties in the 1990s in the ancient quarries of the Latin Quarter in order to discover, that in fact there was all this public space, which was totally abandoned, which we could use for anything.
But everybody knows that pooling-of-interest accounting, which tends to inflate reported earnings after a merger, helped encourage the conglomerate craze of the late Sixties, and that changing those rules made conglomeration much less attractive.
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Later, during the witch craze of the 16th and 17th centuries, it was said that covens met here to commune with devils.
But the biggest new craze of all is the ubiquitous com, a sort of Vietnamese fast-food joint.
Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for Android devices.
The monster-collecting Pokemon craze of the late 1990s started as a series of titles for the company's Game Boy portable system and eventually sold in excess of 106 million units.
Headquartered in Los Angeles away from the IPO craze of Silicon Valley, Pipkin enjoys his low profile and is in no apparent hurry to change that.
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In the midst of the commodity craze in 2007, Chen waged a hostile takeover of a Hong Kong-listed steelmaker that was ultimately defeated with the backing of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
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Sotheby's, taking full advantage of the Orientalist craze, went out of its way to market the painting by exhibiting it in both New York and London, thereby drawing international attention.
Available only to those in its (slowly) expanding FiOS network, Verizon is out to give subscribers a kinda sorta new way to watch television, and, of course, to cash in on the time-shifting craze while the window of opportunity is still open.
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Mr. KAGAN: No, I don't, and I think, you know, that the current craze for the decline of America is tremendously overstated.
In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
At the height of the disco craze, the Bee Gees were number one and number two with "Night Fever" and that other song that just wouldn't die.
In 2000's first quarter, at the height of the Internet craze, Callahan's formulas assigned intrinsic values as little as half the market price to such popular stocks as Qualcomm and Motorola.
The deeper belief is that existing big businesses--which, as with the initial Internet revolution, will make up the majority of winners in the cloud craze, Clementi says--will not give up ownership of their data and equipment to another proprietor.
When I came to Istanbul in nineteen sixty-nine it was the time of the mini skirt craze in this country.
After several entrepreneurial efforts, Pipkin, who knew little about hardware or software, started Belkin in 1983 in a two car garage in Southern California with the goal of riding the PC craze.
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The Internet mania reminds me of the infrastructure craze in Asia a decade or so ago.
Though he has helped fuel the consumer craze, he laments the rise of handheld gadgetry: "The march of consumer technology will spell an end to tranquility, " he says.
The question is whether the boom will continue, or fizzle, as did South Korea's credit-card craze at the start of the decade.
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But the argument--if you build it, they will come--smells of the Internet craze when dot-com businesses sprouted on the Web and not enough people came.
Dividend stocks have been all the craze in an environment of zero-yielding Treasuries and uncertain market performance.
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Among those privileges is Maine's current craze, the hunting of deer with (highly sophisticated) bows and arrows, since guns may not be fired without permission on private land.
The luxury craze has been partly fueled by the influx of deep-pocketed foreigners from places like Russia and China, who are streaming into New York City in search of "trophy apartments" that can serve as pied-a-terres.
AvalonBay Communities owns high-end rental apartments, and during the housing boom they lost scads of customers to the homeownership craze.
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He dabbled with a higher concentration of vitamins, but they hurt the flavor of the beer, says Schwartz, who aims to cash in on the craze for fortified food and beverages of all kinds.
The Kindle Fire has thrown a bucket of water on the tablet craze.
In the case of the summer's Hawaiian shirt craze, for instance, clothes made from conception to stores in about a month.
These are the natural, greedy reactions of any investor looking for action and big returns, but the China Internet and IPO craze is a classic case of caveat emptor.
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