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...some point in the stressful search for colleges: “Oh, Harvard, Princeton, Yale…they’re the top three.” But check www.rankyourcollege.com and you might find that even Harvard ranks at a lowly five. Hit the refresh button your browser though, and Harvard might have rocketed to the top again...
...mostly yielded electronic Edsels. But some new gadgets are reversing the trend. In August Motorola will unveil its Accompli 009 ($600), the first such gizmo with global capability, working in most cities throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. The device comes with a GSM-based phone, Web browser, e-mail and a plethora of PDA features. Samsung's SPH-I300 ($500), also due out in August, sports a Palm OS with color screen and stylus. It's nearly as light as and more user-friendly than the Accompli, but its CDMA-based cell phone works only...
...shopping manager, and Hailstorm, a subscription-based e-mail-alert Web service. One of Microsoft's main offenses in the antitrust case, the company points out, was giving away the Internet Explorer with Windows. "There weren't a lot of complaints from customers that they were getting a browser for free," says Jonathan Zuck, executive director of the pro-Microsoft Association for Competitive Technology...
...company that could be first in line: AOL Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. In recent talks about renewing AOL's spot on Windows XP, Microsoft sought indemnity from future antitrust claims. AOL refused, and the deal died. AOL might sue, claiming that Netscape, the Internet browser it now owns, was harmed by Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. Estimates of potential damage are in the billions of dollars. Other companies that could sue: Microsoft-loathing Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks and Oracle...
...search engines' limitations might not matter to those who still see the World Wide Web as a free-of-charge garden of delights - the very word browser, after all, implies idle curiosity. But for information-dependent businesses, the reality is different. "Companies have spent billions of dollars on intranet infrastructures, knowledge management systems and customer relationship management systems, and the best return on investment they've had so far is e-mail," says Mahendra Vora, CEO of Intelliseek, one of several new companies aiming to unlock the potential of the invisible Web for their customers. Launched in Cincinnati...