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Type in the name of your favorite band, and within moments the site will be streaming a radio station, featuring songs from that band and similar ones, to your desktop through your browser--no registration and no downloads required. You can fine-tune the playlist by using the thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. It's a nifty way of discovering new artists who sort of sound like the bands you already like, and of becoming a font of music knowledge at parties. A new Backstage section is a searchable directory of artists and albums--"your door to the music...
...sensitive personal information about you--or someone you know--has been reported stolen or lost by a government agency. As a slew of laptops has slipped away from Uncle Sam and some of his subcontractors, the Department of Veterans Affairs last week raised eyebrows with news that a bulky desktop computer--with thousands of Social Security numbers in it--had disappeared from a supposedly secure office. Here are some other peculiar vanishing acts...
...seeing more and more of our technology intersecting with home entertainment," says Ro Parra, a senior vice president of Dell's home and small-business group. To entice gamesters and movie watchers, Dell has unveiled new models in its multimedia XPS line. The units range from a $3,500 desktop-notebook hybrid with a 20-in. screen and a remote, to a $2,270 gaming desktop with a swanky scarlet-and-gray exterior and high-end specs. Its purchase of Alienware, a leading seller of game computers, will give Dell cachet in that segment. Parra says Dell's stores give...
...opening stores, Dell is acknowledging that retailers are in a better position to address the increasing number of consumers who view computers as an entertainment purchase. Walk down the aisle of your local Best Buy, and you will see that desktop screens are as likely to display Sid Meier's Civilization as H&R Block's TaxCut. "It's not just a PC anymore. I'm connecting this box to the rest of my life," says Michael Vitelli, senior vice president of consumer electronics. "Dell made its money when the computer was a static box. People want...
...among employees. A Knoll study found that 45% say they do their best work in "their own personal space." The top privacy-related gripe: overheard conversation, particularly from cell-phone shouters. So architects are being exhorted to help muffle cubicle babble. Some advocate loft ceilings, others white noise; a desktop gadget called Babble can broadcast garbled recordings of the user's voice to mask real conversation. "To be honest, I see a lot more people just wearing iPods at their desks," says Dennis Gaffney, co-director of workplace design for architects RTKL...