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...relaunching Netscape next year, positioning the browser as the central clearinghouse for Time Warner's content. That's not prime Internet real estate, and there are some murmurs within Time Warner that AOL's quest for its own content is exceeded by its lust for rent-paying deals. Don't expect Time Inc.'s Money.com to replace CBS MarketWatch on AOL anytime soon...
...sort e-mail messages by date or sender--functions Microsoft's Hotmail has as well. AOL 6.0 also lets you get e-mail by phone and adds new character icons for your buddy list. Microsoft, meanwhile, has launched its new MSN Explorer Web browser with the warm-and-fuzzy icons and labels AOL made famous. Explorer is free and works with any Web connection, but Microsoft wouldn't mind if you signed up at $21.95 a month for MSN Internet access. Same...
...been trying out the newest way to protect oneself: a browser-based service from McAfee.com that promises to keep any PC bug-free. Note that I said service rather than software. For $30 a year, you subscribe to McAfee.com's "Clinic," which will protect your Net-connected computer with a program that's constantly updated with the latest digital fumigants. McAfee.com's approach is an example of what's known as an Application Service Provider, a recent trendlet among Net businesses. Increasingly, software companies deliver their stuff to you exclusively online, in tiny installments that they can automatically upgrade...
Truth be told, you don't need any of this stuff. While most consumer PCs will come with Windows Me preinstalled, there's little reason to upgrade an older PC. The browser and media player have been available as free downloads since July. And if your computer has anything less than a Pentium-150 with 32 MB of memory, the bloated Windows Me (which can gobble as much as 2 GB of disk space) won't work...
...site's stories. Instead it is Slashdot's readers who send in the news. In effect, Malda has an army of reporters working for him, and as a result, Slashdot often scoops the mainstream media. Case in point: when Netscape decided to give away the source code of its browser, one of the biggest tech stories of 1998, Slashdot was first on the scene...