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...that looked like roof tiles and held a paltry 800 kilobytes of data? Well, forget 'em. Iomega has a new disc called Peerless that stores 20 gigabytes--more than most hard drives. Granted, a Peerless disc drive costs $400, but that's for enough space to fit your entire PC on a single disc. And you can probably fit all those back issues of National Geographic you've been keeping in the attic...
...cater to the U.S. market, which has the world's highest percentage of PC users, a recently introduced initiative, MTV360, integrates the company's two cable channels with the mtv.com website. In Latin America, chart countdown shows like MTV's Top 5 Interactivo are driven by the choices of users on the mtvla.com website. An on-air DJ announces fans' votes...
Watching TV, in other words, is becoming work, not just for people like me but anyone with a PC and a TV in the same room. Turn on CNN's The Spin Room and you can continue the political debate in a chat room full of partisan psychos in love with the CAPS LOCK key. Watch a basketball game and you can log on to a website full of all the snooze-worthy stats that network producers get paid good money to slog through for you. Check out the Oscar preshow on E! network, and you can rate the stars...
...logged nearly 500 online visits. Says Dr. Vivek Jawali, chief cardiovascular surgeon: "We started this as an innovative technology play, but it is turning out to be an emotional support system." That is certainly true for the Viswanathan family. Their sons are preparing to rig up their home PC so they can come face-to-face more often...
...tribal people of Dhar in central India's Madhya Pradesh have found magic in a box. Gendalal Verma, a farmer from Bagdi village, seeks its wisdom every week. He rides his motorcycle along 8 km of bumpy paths until he comes to a simple PC housed in a kiosk. He doesn't surf, but looks up the price of garlic in the wholesale markets of nearby towns to make sure area middlemen aren't shortchanging him. The difference can be more than $4.25 on 100 kg of garlic, and Verma has 9,000 kg ready to harvest. "The traders...