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Everyone hates Microsoft, of course. But you have to love it too. Sure the boys from Redmond, Wash., play the heavy in every market they dominate, from PC operating systems to desktop software. But when they're the underdogs, as they are in video games and handheld PCs, they have proved to be scrappy fighters and real innovators. And that translates into better products and choices for consumers...
...media terms, that's a decidedly one-way experience. The PC and TV have not converged, not in the home office and not in the media room, where folks still prefer not to work. Heck, they don't even want to interact with the television. They're not ordering pizzas, they're not playing movie director and they certainly aren't going over last month's sales reports when the Patriots are playing. "The old idea was that computers and the Internet and phone and TV would all merge," says Adam Keiper, president of the Center for the Study...
...marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will be announced this...
...consider my PC to be pretty well protected--virus free and firewalled. Yet the first time I ran Ad-Aware, it spent 15 minutes turning up and removing a dozen nasty little programs with names like Xupiter Toolbar, Gator Trickler and Bargains.exe. And when I ran it again a few weeks later, five more pieces of spyware showed...
...only a year, he didn't have much retirement savings in the company's deflated stock, and he had put aside enough to live on for a year if the family budgeted carefully. The Wus have cut out vacations, and instead of playing games on the latest souped-up PC, David and the kids are working on a less pricey 3,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. But the transition hasn't been easy. Elly admits that she had got so used to his not being around that she sometimes forgets to involve David in family decisions. The kids, while happy...