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Comdex, the annual computer-related geekfest in Las Vegas, may be going the way of the dotcom bubble. Crowds are dwindling, and those who did show had to look harder to find the cool gadgets. But the gadgets were there. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates unveiled Smart Personal Object Technology, which allows refrigerator magnets, travel clocks and other tiny devices to update you on news, sports and weather via a wireless Internet chip. Gates is also pushing Smart Displays--thin, $1,000 computer screens you can take with you around the house and write notes on, as you would with...
Enron. Arthur Andersen. Dynegy. ImClone. Global Crossing. A lot hashappened in the business world since we last checked in with Dilbert. The beleaguered, bespectacled office worker was oppressed during the downsizing era. He "was feeling his oats a little bit" during the dotcom boom and "became a little more insolent and sarcastic at work," in the words of his creator, Scott Adams. Now, says Adams, Dilbert has "reached a depth of cynicism." That cynicism is on full display in the first new Dilbert book to appear in four years: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, about to be published...
...Mauritius markets itself as a "cyber island" to serve the African and South Asian markets, its timing is lousy. It missed the dotcom boom and must compete against more established hubs in Singapore and Malaysia. But opportunities remain. Because both London and Paris ruled the island, many Mauritians speak English and French, making the island an attractive bilingual base for American companies doing business in Africa and Asia. IBM, Oracle and Microsoft have opened regional offices there, and last month work began on a $50 million "cyber city" to attract new software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes...
...workers. "But the lack of education is still a massive problem," says Eric Charoux, director of DCDM Business School, Mauritius' largest private university. "There are just not enough students coming through." This dot in the ocean, he says, would welcome techies who lost their jobs in the U.S. dotcom bust and would like to start over in an island paradise...
...money to start this project. Gluck is very eager to make sure everyone knows he has a degree in art history and is not just some smut-happy computer geek. "I was aware of this material because of my interest in the arts," he says. "The standard computer dotcom guy would know porn sites, but that's not where I'm coming from. I know about it from the arts...