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...technology improved, programmers competed for the geek prestige conferred upon the author of the most up-to-date mimetic software. That crown was seized last month by the anonymous duo behind UltraHLE, the first emulator to turn your PC into a fully operational Nintendo 64. UltraHLE, or High Level Emulator, became a hot property at a time when Nintendo was starting to claw market share back from its larger rival, Sony. Now every college kid with a speedy T1 Internet connection could theoretically download all 26 megabytes of the holiday season's runaway hit, Legend of Zelda. UltraHLE, says Nintendo...
...emulator craze is still in its early stages, and may yet work in the companies' favor. Sony, analysts say, is losing money on every PlayStation console it sells because of aggressive price cutting. If users start trashing their consoles in favor of a PC keyboard, the Japanese giant might make more of a profit from games licensing. Sony games, even in their pirated Internet versions, contain about five times as much digital information as Nintendo's, and are thus more difficult for illegal users to download. They must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered...
Stealing and posting filmed images online is relatively easy. A pirate simply carries a digital camcorder into a movie theater, tapes a film, then uploads the file to his PC and personal website back home. Or she hooks a standard VCR up to her computer and uses a video capture card to convert the film to a digital format. For now, DVD movies are tough to pirate because the files are encrypted. Big movie companies are working to develop a similarly secure format that would allow them to offer pay-per-view films online...
Each of the Sharp machines comes with a built-in 33.6K data-fax modem and a serial-port cable so you can attach the kneetop to your PC and swap files; or synchronize your kneetop to your desktop's calendar, spreadsheet and e-mail; or copy files to a floppy disc. Because there are no moving parts like a hard drive (everything is stored in RAM and ROM chips), the batteries seem to stay charged forever; the Pro goes for eight hours straight, and the Tripad for 12. Best of all, there's no boot-up: push a button...
...Free-PC spokesperson Steve Chadima says data such as age, marital status and income, provided by applicants on the company's website free-pc.com) will determine, in part, who gets the new computers. Ads will be targeted based on interests and past purchases...