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<A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:548156">SHINEBOY.COM NEWS #4</A>
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Subject: SHINEBOY.COM NEWS #4
From: "Shineboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 27 August 1999 02:17 AM EDT
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Shineboy.com News - Aug. 23 - 27
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www.shineboy.com
Cashiers offed by cards, fingerprints
http://www.shineboy.com/Stories/990827a.html
You don't need a teller to get money out of your bank, and you won't need a
cashier to get groceries out of the store. In fact, you won't need the Web
either.
You may need International Automated Systems Inc. -- or a company like
them -- which will allow you to buy groceries and other items from virtually
workerless stores.
IAS just finished five weeks of testing its automatic fingerprint
identification machine, or AFIM, which uses biometric technology to create
the world's first self-cashiering supermarket in Salem, Utah, called
U-Check.
It's so simple, IAS says, that even a child can use it. A child with a
checking account, at least.
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Perspective -- Fear drives disintermediation
http://www.shineboy.com/Stories/990826a.html
In the history of humanity, there is perhaps no stronger motivator than
fear. In some fashion -- whether its fear of starvation, failure, darkness,
embarassment, loneliness, age, large dogs or poverty -- fear has at some
point driven each one of us.
Fear is now being used to help ignite an economic revolution that will kill
off American jobs.
Dell Computer CEO and Chairman Michael Dell says the Internet is like "a
weapon sitting on the table ready to be picked up by you or your competitor
... The Internet will be your business, and if it's not already, you're
probably in trouble."
Adds Bank One CEO John McCoy, according to the Wall Street Journal: "I'm not
about ready to sit here and let somebody else take my business."
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Sites try to hook kids on Web shopping
http://www.shineboy.com/Stories/990825a.html
If you're buzzing hard on Web hype and believe the e-commerce revolution is
now, just wait about 20 years or so.
That's when the kiddies of today start to wield their true consuming power.
And they'll be just as comfortable with the Web as Gen Xers were with the
local mall.
Not ones to miss an opportunity, the Web entrepreneurs are out to get the
kids hooked on Internet shopping while they're still young. Which explains
sites like iCanBuy.com, which is taking on the noble task of teaching teens
and kids to spend online.
To boost traffic, iCanBuy is offering 6 percent interest in online checking
accounts set up through Security First Network Bank and $30 gift
certificates with deposits of at least $100. Competitive rates among banks
average around 5 percent.
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Online auto sites gaining ground
http://www.shineboy.com/Stories/990824a.html
Most people hate high-pressure sales tactics. And let's face it, car
salesman have a bad reputation for laying it on pretty thick.
For years, the more slimy aspects of buying a vehicle have pushed consumers
toward alternative sources to find out what kind of vehicle they want to
buy. The Internet has filled this role and then some, since consumers can
actually purchase their new car online, thus eliminating any possible
haggling or harassment on the showroom floor.
As proof of the Web's strength among auto shoppers, a new study shows the
number of people who bought a new car or truck online doubled from 1.1
percent of all vehicle purchases in 1998 to 2.7 percent currently.
That chunk could reach 5 percent by 2000, according to the study, published
by Agoura Hills, Calif.-based J.D. Power and Associates. If the online car
shopping population continues to double each year, a majority of auto buyers
will be buying online by 2005 -- just six years from now.
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AOL's new home shopping channel?
http://www.shineboy.com/Stories/990823a.html
America Online, which helped millions of consumers get connected before
there was even a World Wide Web to connect to, is hitting the boob tube in
what could be the first major attempt by a Web portal to tap into the power
of home shopping via TV.
It would also enable AOL's e-commerce shopping suite to gain a wider
audience for automated transactions, perhaps furthering the
disintermediation of millions of retailers and service providers here and
abroad.
Steve Case, CEO of the 20-million-member online community, said in an
interview with Germany's Focs magazine on Sunday that AOL is planning its
own TV channel to be called AOL-TV.
The channel would not be broadcast over the Internet but would offer e-mail
and chat-room services, Case said.
AOL is the most popular destination on the Web, having overtaken Web portal
Yahoo! earlier this year. The subscription-based Internet provider was
pioneering online brand shopping long before the Web began to emerge as a
medium around 1994.
Should AOL-TV become reality, it could help connect legions of consumers
attached to home shopping networks like QVC with the Internet, as well as
connect online users who may have felt nervous about Internet transactions
with the relative comfort of a more traditional medium -- television.
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for more news about the Web, technology, labor and disintermediation, visit
www.shineboy.com.
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