Word: browser
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Many of them won't even have to open a Web browser to go shopping. Internet-ready cell phones already have e-commerce capabilities. Sony's latest terminal for WebTV offers split-screen shopping, so you can buy Christmas gifts without taking your eyes off the tube. Excite@Home's broadband cable service will launch an undertaking next year that lets you instantaneously buy the products you see advertised. Say you're watching a Pizza Hut ad when an animated stuffed-crust pizza floats across the screen; two clicks of the remote, and it's heading to your door. Excite...
Blaming Microsoft for bundling its own browser with its Windows software is like blaming Henry Ford for installing the internal-combustion engine in all his cars! Imagine if people had to choose an engine separately for a car before they bought it! Since the breakup of AT&T, my phone bills have become astronomical; since Congress "fixed" the cable-TV companies, I have higher bills and fewer channels. Now I wonder what will happen with my computer. Maybe if it ain't broke, don't fix it! SHEILA MARIA KORTLUCKE Lawrence, Kans...
...said Microsoft unfairly ensured that its Internet Explorer, which includes the Java virtual machine, became the Java standard by offering a discount to computer manufacturers that installed only Internet Explorer and thus left out Netscape Navigator, the browser's main competitor...
...denied that consumer choice has been stifled, noting that he had no difficulty downloading and using Netscape Navigator, an alternate Web browser...
Marketers know plenty right now. Advertising networks like DoubleClick and MatchLogic, content sites like Time.com (TIME's online affiliate), and even retailers like Amazon.com are able to gather information by depositing numerical files called cookies into your Web browser. Embedded in the cookie is an identifying number, like a cyber fingerprint, that alerts a server to your presence. Whoever sent the cookie can monitor where you go on the Web, what you click on, what you read, what you buy and what you don't buy. Some sites, including Amazon, maintain strict privacy policies that promise to guard the data...