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DICK TRACY LIVES Cell phones have got smaller and smaller, but your fingers haven't shrunk, making sleek mobiles like the Nokia 8860 frustrating to operate. That's why Samsung's new watchphone makes more sense than most miniatures. It uses voice-recognition software from Conversa to dial phone numbers and read e-mail in response to plain-English commands. Available late next year, it should arrive just in time to accessorize your Dick Tracy Halloween costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...might rightly ask: How much does all this free stuff cost? In the case of PCs, some firms, like InterSquid and PeoplePC, provide quality computers that come with multiyear contracts requiring the user to sign for dial-up Internet access at somewhat pricey rates--a deal many consumers might regret when high-speed Internet access becomes widely available. AltaVista, a free Internet service provider, runs a narrow, scrolling banner across your screen that requires you to click through--interact with the ad--every hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web: Giving Away The E-Store | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...parking lot, at the keg party or across the chess board, the events surrounding the game make the occasion such a festival. It's an opportunity for people who wouldn't otherwise be somewhere near center-stage to shine, in the band, on the radio dial, wherever. For that, The Game is, indeed, worth caring for, worth going to, and maybe even worth rooting...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along at 56K get moved to a different IP address every time we log on. We may be slower, but we're harder to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker's Delight | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...sure, dial-up users get hit by Trojans too. But all the extra bandwidth provided by cable modems makes hackers salivate. If you've hooked up a microphone, the remote-access hacker can listen to your conversations in real-time. If you own one of those little monitor-top video cameras, he can watch you like Big Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker's Delight | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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