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...last week by quietly offering Web surfers a preview of a superbrowser, code-named Atlas. The program is designed to compete with Microsoft's Explorer, which Net users have labeled slow and short on appealing features. Though downloading Atlas was rough going (more than an hour on a 14.4 modem), patient users were treated to a program stuffed with new applications, part of Netscape's plan to outdazzle and outperform Microsoft. Below, a look inside Atlas, available at www.netscape.com...
...INTERNET IS A GREAT PLACE TO visit, but most modem jockeys, once they receive their first online bill, find they wouldn't want to live there--at least for long. Commercial online services like America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy have made the Net accessible to millions at an hourly rate, making it all too easy to run up hundreds of dollars a month in connection charges. Smaller, flat-rate, local-access providers like Netcom or PSInet have championed flat-rate service that allows unlimited access at $20 to $30 a month but can't always keep up with demand; busy...
...Spot's popularity quickly gave rise to more than a dozen other cybersoap clones. Now the modem ready can revel in series such as Lake Shore Drive, which chronicles yuppie intrigue in Chicago, and Ferndale, a saga about patients in a psychoanalytic clinic, one of whom is a man hoping to become a lesbian...
...people truly fall in love via modem? What are the psychic rewards and risks of computer-mediated romance...
Other advantages to outsourcing include faster modem connection, more technical assistance and the elimination of charges for students making long distance calls...