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CLIP FILE Are we living in a post-PC era? Pundits at the annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas last week argued yes, but many of the devices on display told a different story. Even Sony, which is making a big push into gadgets that connect to each other sans PC, still gives an occasional nod to the desktop computer. Its new Music Clip plays 2 hrs. of digital music on a single AA, but gets tunes, via USB cable, from a PC. Available in January, the Clip includes Sony's OpenMG Jukebox software to copy songs...
...MICROSOFT, ALL THE TIME What, me a monopoly? Judge Jackson's findings don't seem to have discouraged the rebels from Redmond. The two compact MSN Web Companions that made their first live appearance at Comdex may have been built by the European TV maker Vestel, but everything else about them is pure Microsoft. The Web-only terminals run Microsoft's slimmed-down Windows CE, connect with MSN Internet access and feature MSN Web services like Hotmail. Due out next year, they'll retail...
...were displaying swirling images of circuit boards and modems as a crowd of systems engineers and desktop-support managers moshed drunkenly a floor below me. I was at The Beach, but hundreds of miles away from the ocean, alas -- landlocked and gridlocked for a week in Las Vegas for Comdex...
...Comdex has a few redeeming qualities, like getting to hear Bill Gates wax eloquent about programming on a Tandy personal computer over 20 years ago. When Microsoft struck a deal with the Tandy-owned Radio Shack chain, he was surprised to find some of the same people he'd dealt with back in the day. "Once you get to Tandy, you never leave," he observed to a gaggle of journos at a post-keynote shindig. Oh, but that was off the record, so you didn't hear it from me. MORE...
...dominance in desktop operating systems and applications is to move computing to the server. To encourage those who are slow to make the switch, they'll give away their applications for free. Taking a page from the Linux gang - who McNealy managed to deride as "communes" - Sun has saturated Comdex with signs touting Star Office, a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other big applications that Sun is giving away gratis. Tens of thousands of copies of Sun's Star Office were distributed at Comdex, included one copy on each of the 7,000 seats for McNealy's keynote. MORE...