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Paper has always been the ideal technology for displaying information: It's easy to read, easy to carry, easy to store and hard to break. And thin ?- well, flat-panel monitors have nothing on paper. Now, realizing the lurid dreams science fiction writers have nurtured for decades, researchers are combining the best qualities of paper and the everyday computer monitor to produce electronic paper, and yesterday Xerox PARC and 3M announced an agreement to try to produce the stuff commercially. Can they make it happen...
Skat, the Web host, looks up from her monitor and says, "Pseudo is about hiring young kids who live the Net and don't know about equity positions." As for Skat, well, she's a little older now, and she's working out her own deal--which will, of course, include stock options...
...been testing IBM's Aptiva E Series 585, which shipped to retail stores last week. At $1,899 (a monitor costs extra), the 500-MHz Pentium III desktop PC has the usual amenities, but comes with an internal Sony CD-RW drive. RW is industry jargon for rewriteable, which means it can handle discs that can be recorded over and over again, just like a floppy disc. CD-RW discs, however, tend to cost about $10 each and can be flaky, as I soon learned...
...group and he is a stubborn man who is not someone to change things." Many observers believe that change will eventually be forced on the Olympics for commercial reasons. "A number of major sponsors, concerned about their image, are still applying pressure," says Sullivan. Many of them intend to monitor the TV ratings for the 2000 games to see how much the public has soured on the Olympic movement. If the ratings drop significantly, says Sullivan, "that will be what spurs changes...
MODEM CHASTITY BELT The folks at Tel-Lock understand how hard it can be to trust your kids when they're online. So rather than ask you to monitor Internet use in person, Tel-Lock provides a special telephone jack that locks with a key to block any incoming or outgoing calls. At $20 a pop, replacing all your outlets with Security Jacks (available at telephonelock.com could be costly--especially if one of your kids needs to call 911 someday. CEO Calvin Flowers calls the Security Jacks "foolproof...