Word: browser
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While the Internet is likely to have a huge appeal, surfing the Web on the phone is still impractical because the screens are tiny. So designers have come up with a micro-browser that lets the user surf for information by pressing a number on the dialing pad instead of fumbling with a computer mouse. While typing e-mail on phones is a hassle even with the latest technology, voice-recognition software will enable users to dictate directly to their cell phone...
...Microsoft bigot, exactly. I just worry about what the world will be like when it finally squashes all competition. For instance, I used Netscape's browser for years and have it on my computer still. But it's become something of an affectation, like sporting a DOLE IN '96 bumper sticker. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 does most of what Netscape's browser does, and it fits better with the Windows operating system--exactly as Bill Gates and his evil geniuses intended. Besides, I got so sick of all the insistent dialogue boxes that Windows popped up whenever I installed...
...Although Netscape admits the problem has "security implications" and promises to look into the matter, there was no warning to be found on its home page as of Monday morning. Since the bug affects every version of Navigator and Communicator, but is not found on any Microsoft browser, Brumleve's discovery could be a serious blow for the already-embattled Netscape in the browser wars. Privacy-minded Netscape fans might consider switching to the dark side, at least for the time being...
...hell with all that, the browser, the literary gossip and even the Maynard fan must think at some point: tell us something we really want to know. And now, Maynard has tried to oblige. In At Home in the World (Picador; 352 pages; $25)--yes, it's another memoir--she lifts the veil on the devastating affair she had with J.D. Salinger when she was 18 and the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye was 53. Maynard's recounting is full of all those key details sympathetic girlfriends require. He made her eat frozen Birds Eye peas for breakfast...
...There's just one problem. Netscape's founding fathers, Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen, maintain that they began planning the new company on March 1 1994. What's more, the browser Andreesen first worked on -- NCSA Mosaic -- was already wowing the crowds back in December 1993, when the New York Times' John Markoff lauded it as the killer application for the Internet. Gates might want to brush up on browser history before his impending DOJ deposition...