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Nokia, maker of the world's most popular cell phone, is Microsoft's main stumbling block, and the two companies are likely to spend the better part of the next decade duking it out for control of this $91 billion industry. As Microsoft gets set to muscle in on Nokia's turf, the Finnish giant is selling its own software deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting...
...this competition should be good news for road warriors and teenagers. Screens and memory sizes will get larger, mobile music and video services will proliferate, and sending instant text messages (assuming Microsoft and Nokia can agree on a common standard) should become just as popular in the U.S. as it is in Japan and Europe. And if you still want an old-fashioned cell phone without bells and whistles, you will pay a lot less than you do now, since wireless carriers will aim to make most of their money on the extras. Just try to keep it down when...
JUST LOOKING Lots of people watch DVDs on their computers. Microsoft's free media player for Windows XP, on 17 million PCs, is a popular way to do it. It turns out, though, that Microsoft has been logging what people are watching, and even what songs they're listening to, according to the Associated Press, which got Redmond to fess up. Microsoft says it's updating the player's privacy disclaimer to warn users. But it won't rule out selling the information to advertisers down the line. Talk about paying the peeper...
...takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Jeon's character goes through more mood swings than there are versions of Microsoft's operating system, and the hapless Gyun has to absorb them all. She drinks to oblivion, slaps him around, makes him exchange his sneakers for her high-heeled shoes as they walk through the park. It turns out she's still grieving over a previous relationship; Gyun guesses at what haunts her, but can't fully understand...
Eudora and Microsoft Outlook users will not be affected until next fall, when they will also have to shift to an encrypted program...