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Finally, in the Microsoft Conspiracy Department, a number of programs did not work--from Microsoft's competitors. My AOL connection refused to recognize my cable modem and tried to connect via the phone, something Microsoft says AOL will "fix" in its forthcoming 7.0 release. Liquid Audio, a popular music player, had the dubious distinction of causing my machine to gag. And Java programs now require you to find, download and install a special piece of software. Oh, well. Life's not perfect under a monopoly. Better get used...
...link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips up to 30 ft. apart built on the new standard can exchange audio and data at a rate of 500 to 1,000 kilobytes every second--more than 10 times as fast as your dial-up modem...
...transmits data 10 times that distance and at much more than 100 times the rate of a dial-up modem, making it an ideal technology for linking computers to one another and to the Net in a wireless local-area network, or WLAN. It also has the advantage of being unequivocally here and relatively easy to use. All you need is a specialized PC card (for as low as $90) that slips into a slot in your computer, and an access point or base station (available for less than $300) capable of linking several computers. The downside? Higher power means...
...Internet Explorer on a PC, the Pop-Up Stopper from PanicWare (at panicware.com is a simple pleasure. Even if you've never downloaded software before, it's worth a try. Using a regular modem, the download and installation take less than 10 minutes. Then, every time Stopper detects an offending ad, it buzzes like one of those fly zappers, and you will never see what you're missing...
...Improvements in the division, Armstrong says, are "not future conjecture, but really? today's reality." He said the company is breaking even in its high-speed Internet business and expects to have more than 20 percent of AT&T's cable customers signed up for cable modem service by 2005. It has firm plans to improve its balance sheet with cost-cutting and price hikes, and has already slashed 10,000 jobs in the past year (with 3,000 more on the way). And although they?re still anemic by industry standards, profits are up slightly from last year...