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...with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your PC...
...forerunner to digital-video-disc technology. When the business started to grow, Garnick went to a venture capitalist. By 1996 Garnick's company had come up with the technology for DVD decoding. Says Garnick: "We were the first company in the world to demonstrate working dvd capability on the PC...
From Silicon Valley to Motown, from assembly line to PC workstation, corporate employers are taking charge of their workers' health as never before. Company doctors have splinted the broken bones of factory workers for generations, and personnel managers long ago began offering vaccinations. What's new is that employers in every industry are injecting themselves into issues that seem to have as much to do with lifestyle choices as with traditional medicine. In a U.S. Health and Human Services survey this year, 95% of U.S. companies with more than 50 employees said they had taken action to improve workers' health...
...PC FOR CHRISTMAS? Maybe not Laptops may be hard to get this holiday season because of a liquid-crystal-display-panel shortage. Analysts say manufacturers will meet only 86% of demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September quake in Taiwan threw off memory-chip production too. Rather than raising prices, some makers may end up giving less bang for your buck. Best advice: buy now or well after Christmas...
GETTING INTO IT People who spend a lot of time playing computer games often have a look: soft in the middle, with a pasty complexion. But a new gadget could get gamers off their butts. The GameCam, from Reality Fusion, is a digital video camera that sits atop your PC. Using motion recognition, the camera captures your image and projects it into one of six games on an accompanying disc. You control the action of the games, and sometimes even work up a sweat, by vigorously moving your body. No word yet on Tae-Bo for gamers...