PLUGGED IN : BIZ BYTES.AIRPORT CONNECTIONS TAKE OFF: Millions of business travelers carry laptop computers wherever they go, but most of these road warriors
The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team famously comprised of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis, though other members have trouble finding an easy way to connect to the Internet, check their company e-mail or monitor their stock portfolios. Starting this fall, a partnership between Host Marriott Services Host Marriott Services Corporation ceased to be an independent company when it became HMSHost Corporation and was acquired by the Italian company Autogrill S.p.A.. History Corp. and a Denver Internet services company will be testing a way around this access problem. CyberFlyer Technologies will put about 30 boxes in restaurants operated at the airports and service plazas by Host Marriott. Inside each box is a personal computer connected to the Internet via a high-speed T1 telephone line. The first few minutes of the service are free, after which it costs 33 cents a minute. You run a credit card through a reader to activate it and pay for the service. CyberFlyer already is testing six of the units in the Norfolk, Va., airport, said Pam Shelpuk, the company's marketing manager. SITE OF THE WEEK SKIN DEEP: Beauty will be in the eye of the beholder. The beholder of the computer screen, that is. Venezuelan beauty queens, renowned the world over for their success at international contests, will go live on the Internet beginning today at www.missvenezuela.com. The pictures of this year's 29 contestants will be accompanied by audio interviews and video clips A short video presentation. . Voting will close on Sept. 11, the eve of the Miss Venezuela The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International pageants (amongst others). pageant. ``This is a chance for everyone to see the world's most beautiful girls,'' said Ernesto Boscan, spokesman for the Miss Venezuela Organization in Caracas, Venezuela. Like Barbies at a doll factory, Venezuela churns out beauty queens faster than any other country. The South American nation has won three Miss Universe and four Miss World titles since 1981, even though Venezuela has only 0.4 percent of the world's population. Beauty is a national obsession, with 90 percent of the country's 21 million people tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune each year to watch the televised Miss Venezuela final. Venezuelans treat pageants like sporting events, betting on girls as they would a soccer team. Brook Mahealani Lee Brook Antoinette Mahealani Lee (born January 8, 1971), also known as Brook Lee, was crowned Miss Universe 1997 on May 16, 1997. Of mixed Korean, Portuguese, Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry, Brook was Miss USA and Miss Hawaii USA prior to winning the Miss Universe 1997 of Hawaii, left, won the crown from Venezuela's Alicia Machado Yoseph Alicia Machado Fajardo (born December 6, 1976), commonly known as Alicia Machado, was the fourth woman from Venezuela to win the Miss Universe crown. Machado was born in Maracay in the state of Aragua. She is the daughter of a Cuban father and Spanish mother. in May. The Miss Universe Pageant has its own site at www.missuniverse.com. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: No caption (Miss Universe) |
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