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...continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts, 3-D "immersive" environments will be as big a breakthrough as the microprocessor, PC or Web browser once were...
...Browsers The Talking Net Last year it webcast the Paralympics live from Sydney, this year it's adding its voice to the Web - literally. New York-based WeMedia, a leading provider of information and services for disabled people, has launched a talking Web browser designed to help blind and partially sighted Net users. The WeMedia browser has large buttons and changeable color contrast, and allows key commands to ease navigation - avoiding the need to select small icons with a mouse. A free version is available at www.wemedia.com...
...Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, Norway's phone company, where Von Tetzchner and colleague Geir Ivarsoey were trying to develop software for the newly popular Internet. They wrote the first browser software while still at Telenor, but the company wasn't interested in pursuing the project. So the duo formed Opera and rented space from the phone company's research labs...
...Since 1995, when the first Opera browser was written, the company has at least doubled its workforce every year and now has more than 100 people at its Oslo headquarters. Though the firm became profitable in 1998, because of its expansion it ran a $450,000 loss last year on turnover of $2.2 million. Remarkably, Opera didn't receive any venture capital funding until last year. "Potential investors would come to us, but we're happy we didn't go with them," Von Tetzchner says. "For a small company with five employees they would have taken over, dug a grave...
...Opera is still racing against its U.S. competitors to offer features like encryption that are crucial to Web users but can hog disc-drive space. The company's latest innovation allows the Opera browser to function like rival Microsoft's ubiquitous?PowerPoint software to make presentations on the Web. It's an open question when the company can expect a market listing now that high-tech stocks are out of favor in both Europe and the U.S. Having succeeded so far with its unorthodox business model, though, Opera's executives are confident they can continue to offer everything their bigger rivals...