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...lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will be announced this week, transforms data so that a mobile-phone user can download pages using the same format as the World...
About 100 firms, from Microsoft and Morgan Stanley to ESPN and the CIA, fielded questions from throngs of well-dressed job-seeking undergraduates yesterday at the Office of Career Services’ (OCS) 21st annual Career Forum...
...washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly lit lecture hall, students learn English by repeating phrases their teacher recites in praise of the Communist leadership. "All the people would unite single-handedly behind the great leader...
...most important reason that demand is growing for customized IM and group-chat tools. Unlike corporate e-mail systems, which typically use networks and servers controlled by the client company, instant messages on the consumer-oriented IM systems move across public networks and through servers controlled by AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo--an arrangement in which sensitive business information is considered more vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers. Says John Tang, an engineer at Sun Microsystems: "Companies don't feel comfortable sending messages out through their firewalls to a server that somebody else has control over." Besides, says Jennifer Belissent, senior product...
...market for integrated messaging software like IBM's Lotus Notes and Microsoft's Exchange, which include a bundle of collaboration tools from IM to group folders and calendar sharing, is $2.6 billion a year, according to research firm the Radicati Group, based in Palo Alto, Calif. That market is expected to grow to $4.4 billion by 2005. Software vendors are also selling pieces of these collaboration packages as stand-alone products, which IDC's Robert Mahowald says will further expand the market for corporate IM and related applications. "If I am a small company," Mahowald explains, "I can buy only...