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...force a pair of Harvard and M.I.T. professors to hand over taped, off-the-record interviews had been tossed out of a Boston court. What these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence," laments Charles ("Rick") Rule, Microsoft legal consultant and former Assistant Attorney General. The loss of this juicy morsel was another rude awakening for Bill Gates: federal courts, it seems, are a lot less pliable...
...click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept...
While the Internet is likely to have a huge appeal, surfing the Web on the phone is still impractical because the screens are tiny. So designers have come up with a micro-browser that lets the user surf for information by pressing a number on the dialing pad instead of fumbling with a computer mouse. While typing e-mail on phones is a hassle even with the latest technology, voice-recognition software will enable users to dictate directly to their cell phone...
...Microsoft bigot, exactly. I just worry about what the world will be like when it finally squashes all competition. For instance, I used Netscape's browser for years and have it on my computer still. But it's become something of an affectation, like sporting a DOLE IN '96 bumper sticker. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 does most of what Netscape's browser does, and it fits better with the Windows operating system--exactly as Bill Gates and his evil geniuses intended. Besides, I got so sick of all the insistent dialogue boxes that Windows popped up whenever I installed...
...Although Netscape admits the problem has "security implications" and promises to look into the matter, there was no warning to be found on its home page as of Monday morning. Since the bug affects every version of Navigator and Communicator, but is not found on any Microsoft browser, Brumleve's discovery could be a serious blow for the already-embattled Netscape in the browser wars. Privacy-minded Netscape fans might consider switching to the dark side, at least for the time being...