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TIME should choose as its person of the Year Linus Torvalds, who developed Linux, the source code of which has been given to the world free of charge. The operating system is maintained by thousands of programmers around the world and is a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows. Torvalds created a community made possible only by the Internet. WAYNE LABS Broomall...
...inside a laptop. The tiny touchscreen PDA is really a PC card, the kind that can slide into the side of portables. If you don't use a laptop, you can buy the optional cradle to fill REX with content from the Web or synchronized schedules from Microsoft Outlook. REX is right for inveterate networkers who travel light and don't want to miss a single digit...
...will be confidential. We're not going to try to make money off of this. Our ultimate goal is for start-ups to outgrow our services," Rubalcava said. Rubalcava noted that great businesses have been conceived at colleges, including Microsoft, Dell and Yahoo...
...shortage? There are few hard facts, but lots of theories. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more men than women respond to the lure of high-tech jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree. Some call this the Bill Gates syndrome, after the college-dropout chairman of Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men--especially those from lower-income families--might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that...
...record of holding onto them has been spotty at best. The mouse, the GUI (graphical user interface, like Windows) and arguably the PC itself were all born in this hothouse of Silicon Valley R. and D.; they ended up making a lot of money for Apple and Microsoft. Xerox has got a lot of prestige but little cash out of the PARC, which is why the beleaguered copier giant intimated in October that it would put its crown jewel up for sale to help stem billion-dollar losses...