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Piano Man

Friday evening Gigi, Alex and I went to see Movin’ Out, the music and dance show conceived of and choreographed by Twyla Tharp; the entire score is by Bill Joel, who won a Tony award for it in 2003. Tharp used Joel’s songs as backdrop to a story of early Viet Nam era New York [...]

The Price of Internet Commerce

…has apparently been set at $.01 by CompUSA. Here’s the story.
Yesterday morning I ordered a combination USB 2.0/Firewire PCI card from CompUSA’s Web site, and designated that I would pick the board up at their store in Rockville. I received a confirmation email quoting me a price of $52.49; $49.99 for the part, and $2.50 [...]

Orange Launches UMTS in Britain and France

Orange became the third operator to offer UMTS services in Britain today, following 3 (UK) and Vodafone. The France Telecom subsidiary is matching 3’s £30/month offer at the low end and is selling six different handsets. Orange has 14M subscribers on its GSM network in the UK but is only targeting 1.6M UMTS users by [...]