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...Christ returns, every eye shall see Him,'" she quotes from Revelation. Thanks to CNN and the Internet, "we're getting to a place where every eye could actually behold such an event." The books were enough to persuade Sandra Keathley, a Boeing employee in Wichita, Kans., not to buy Microsoft's Windows XP, because she has heard rumors that it carries a method of tracking e-mail. (In fact, the software had an instant-messaging bug that was later fixed.) If the Antichrist were to come, she fears, "and you want to contact another Christian, they could see that, trace...
...Stefano Rodot?, who helped draft the E.U.'s Charter of Fundamental Rights, views the new European law as the "last frontier" of compromise between data protection and national security. Phone and Internet companies are also unsettled. "As a global company, we would prefer a harmonized approach," says Richard Purcell, Microsoft's director of corporate privacy, while the E.U. directive "will likely create a patchwork of laws." For example, he says, data might need to be retained for anywhere from 90 days - the usual period for billing purposes - to seven years. Press-freedom groups, whose interests include the protection of news...
...Microsoft Word 2002 takes up 96 million bytes on a user's hard drive. The DNA equivalent of just 12 million bytes of compressed data, by Kurzweil's estimate, controls human brain development. Clearly, something other than size matters in the design of instructions...
...news for travelers is that the market is still attracting providers and investors. In April Cendant Corp. folded Cheaptickets.com into Trip.com and relaunched the new site with a $40 million ad campaign. Trip.com joins established sites like Travelocity (which has a distribution deal with AOL) and Expedia (built by Microsoft and recently sold to USA Network...
...first-years, we began trading AOL Instant Messenger screen names. A few at first. Not everyone knew what AIM was, but the instant messaging playing field was being readied for what later culminated in a huge battle between the world’s largest software giants—Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner. At college, AOL won that battle. And AIM changed the way we deal with one another...