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ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.


MONDAY

Treasury bill treasury bill n. a promissory note issued in multiples of $10,000 by the U. S. Treasury with a maturity date of not more than one year. (See: treasury bond, treasury note) auction.

TUESDAY: National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for April.

Treasury bill auction.

The Conference Board releases the consumer confidence index.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports on durable goods for April.

Treasury bill auction.

House Small Business Committee hearing on effect of electronic commerce on small business.

THURSDAY: Commerce Department reports on gross domestic product for the first quarter.

FRIDAY: Commerce Department reports on personal income for April.

Bond market closes early (11 a.m. PDT) and commodity trading also is abbreviated in advance of Monday's Memorial Day holiday.

BIZ BYTES

BURGER BYTE: Would you like Internet access with that burger and fries? Fast-food restaurant owner Burger King opened a new franchise Thursday in Hartford with a high-tech twist. Along with the Whoppers Whopper - WarGames, the downtown store will offer customers two Internet surfing stations. Customers purchasing Burger King combo meals will be allowed 15 minutes of ``filtered'' Internet surfing. There will be no adult content allowed, and no sending and receiving of e-mail. Burger King said it has no plans to add Internet access to any of its 10,300 other restaurants, said spokesman Charles Nicolas. ``We'll evaluate it as it moves forward,'' he said.

SITE OF THE WEEK

REAL COOL: The latest must-have gizmo to download off the Internet is at www.realnetwork.com, where the makers of the RealAudio and RealVideo A streaming video technology for the Internet and intranets from RealNetworks. A browser equipped with a RealOne media player (formerly RealPlayer) or third-party RealVideo plug-in enables video broadcasts from RealVideo servers (RealServers) to be viewed on screen. The material can be statically stored in the server and viewed in full, or it can be an ongoing broadcast like that of TV. Plug-ins can be downloaded from RealNetworks' Web site. data streaming standards have posted a jukebox program for storing and playing songs from your favorite CDs. Assuming your PC has a CD-ROM player, the software lets you record songs to your hard drive at varying levels of compression and play them back later in any order you choose. The output also can be saved in MP3 format for playing on the new, portable MP3 players from the likes of Creative Labs.

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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:May 23, 1999
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