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Lillian’s online chatting continued when she went home. Using a PC in her bedroom, she began entering chat rooms regularly to act like the sexual animal she never was in real life. “My friends and I made sex jokes all the time,” she says, “but it was never directed in a ‘let me do this to you’ kind of way. It was always very abstract. Playing online was the first time I made that sort of innuendo with a take-me-seriously attitude...
...also thank him for turning the cell phone from a simple communication device into a mini-PC. Of course, just as Microsoft and its longtime partner Intel don't actually put together PCs, they aren't going to start churning out cell phones. What the two companies announced last week is a plan to license their blueprint of the innards of a cell phone to manufacturers; wireless companies can decide what the handset will look like and how much of the Microsoft software it will contain. While vastly increasing the versatility of your cell phone, the insides are standardized...
...smart move, seeding the marketplace with Microsoft products and Intel chips under cover of democratizing the industry. (Two wireless companies have already expressed interest, according to Microsoft.) But that doesn't guarantee Gates another victory. He tried this strategy before by squeezing the same applications onto the Pocket PC, in an effort to steal market share from the popular Palm Pilot, but most Palm users preferred their current software's simplicity. Cell-phone users may turn out to be similarly wary. "The mobile environment is not simply about downscaling the PC world," warns Timo Poikolainen, a director of Nokia...
LOUD PLEASER Looking for a better way to listen to all the music stored on your PC? Check out the DAL 150 EzLink from Harman Kardon, which at $149 may be the cheapest solution yet. The Palm Pilot-size device hooks up your computer to your stereo via a USB connection and coaxial cable. Then it converts the digital files back into analog songs, which is something only your stereo speakers--and true audiophiles--can love...
Davis said these users must download the encrypted telnet program SecureCRT for PC computers or NiftyTelnet for Macintoshs, both of which are available at software.fas.harvard.edu...