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...outpacing any other advertising medium. What's more, Google, the reigning sultan of search, is looking vulnerable. The combination of big money and big opportunity has attracted some mighty big players, including Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon. There's a street fight brewing over Internet search that will make the browser wars look like thumb wrestling...
...hard to decide whether I'm glimpsing the future or just an adventurous family getting the most out of some free toys. They're certainly having fun with the stuff. Paige, 9, plays a helicopter-flying game on the Icebox while Stuart, 11, stands nearby, using the tablet's browser to start his science homework. Later their mother takes over the Icebox to print Allrecipes.com's instructions for Beef-and-Noodle Bake (using an HP ink-jet, another loaner, that sits where a toaster oven might once have been). All that connectivity helps keep the family together in one place...
Companies are also excited about the prospects for improved "collaboration," particularly on conference calls. Several browser-based interfaces engendered by VOIP have turned these enduring hassles of corporate life into mere point-and-click exercises. It's now possible to initiate a conference call merely by clicking on contact names in a browser--all over local or wide-area networks...
Less than five inches long and weighing under a half-pound, the gadget features a full (though understandably tiny) QWERTY keyboard, full-color screen, camera with photo-mail capability and an Internet browser. Like PDAs, it is navigated by a stylus. It looks like a phone, but acts almost like a laptop...
...copies on CD-ROM of 100 separate issues from the Spider-Man, X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Avengers, Captain America and other titles in Topics Entertainment's Marvel Comic Book Library ($30). We loved the content but found the presentation a bit flat: each book is displayed in your Web browser, and you must click on a thumbnail version of a page to see it up close. An interface free of toolbar clutter and a Next button to turn the pages would work better...