Word: pc
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...fact that Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers (the Coke and Pepsi of the browser market) take you to their own home pages--which have search engines--when you start them. You can change that start page by going to the browser menu's "Internet options" on a PC or "Preferences...
Something else that's easy on the eyes is the Matrox Marvel G200 ($299), which I reviewed earlier this year. A Swiss army knife of a PC-plug-in device, the Marvel allows me to edit home videos easily on my computer. It's a TV tuner, so I can watch television on my computer monitor. And it's a graphics accelerator that makes computer games come alive...
...Boies perturbed by these developments? Not a bit, he says. Should he be? Well, South Carolina's Republican attorney general Charlie Condon says he broke ranks because the proposed merger of AOL and Netscape proves that Microsoft does not monopolize the PC industry. Because that is the point Microsoft has been earnestly making for two weeks, there was some celebration at the company's glitzy press conference Monday (the same event where Bill Gates, appearing by satellite, accused Boies of being "out to destroy Microsoft...and make us look very...
...Baby Bear: in a few months, she'll take out an ad in the newspaper and sell her two-year-old machine for $600. Then she'll go to Boscov's and buy last year's model for $800 (or less.) Her M.O. is to get a great PC every year or two while never spending more than $300. Now, you might not be lucky enough to live near a Boscov's--but the principle is sound. Go to a local department store or another outlet that you trust to take your machine back if it doesn't work...
...This is in line with the trends we've been tracking," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "More than half of AOL users are now girls and women, largely because it offers such good e-mail chat services." And even in a p.c. PC world, is it that surprising that women find chat addictive? Still, one might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed...