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...becoming way more digital than analog," says Matt Milne, Gateway senior vice president for consumer products. By going to some of the same suppliers it uses for its PCs, the company slashed prices, and the rest of the industry scrambled to follow. The move could not save the ailing PC company's retail stores--188 will be closed this year--but it has given Gateway a chance to reinvent itself in consumer electronics. Analysts expect prices to fall even further this year, driving up sales. According to Lee Simonson, senior vice president for consumer electronics at Best...
...which you play an Alien-esque space marine battling the ghostly spawn of hell down gloomy corridors of a futuristic Mars base. Not that the hokey plot matters much to hard-core gamers. "Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants off people," says Rob Smith, editor of PC Gamer magazine...
...PC war-game makers have tended to avoid the swampy waters of America's painfully controversial conflict. But Battlefield Vietnam (Electronic Arts; $39.95) wades right in with the most harrowing historical multiplayer game yet created. Playing it feels like wandering onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city...
...Europeans will order Microsoft to make its Windows PC operating system available to manufacturers and consumers in two versions: one with Media Player--Microsoft's proprietary video and music software--built in, as it is now, and one without it. The company is also likely to be fined, perhaps several billion dollars. Most significantly, Monti is expected to try to use the ruling to prevent Microsoft from pushing future products on consumers by "bundling" them with its operating system. Microsoft will survive the fine, but the crackdown will hurt, which is why the restrictions on bundling scuppered last-minute negotiations...
...with greater functionality, why choose the other?? Smith says Microsoft's offer to bolt rivals' media software onto Windows would have benefited consumers. As it stands, it's hard to see how Europe 's PC shoppers will gain from half a decade of regulatory wrestling. See Also: A Hard Line on Software Creating Another Monster Where's the fastest place to get good career advice? It might soon be the Monster Network, an online, searchable Rolodex from job-posting leader Monster.com. Tapping the viral power of networking services like Friendster.com (which links people who have mutual friends), the new Monster...