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...with the U.S. Justice Department and several states two years ago. In that deal, it agreed to license some of its software code to competitors and let dealers and others remove icons for Microsoft products from computer desktops. This week the Commission 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 at present, and one without it. The company is likely to be handed a hefty fine as well, probably in the billions of euros. Most significantly...
...York City's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper?yours, that is?using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece...
...York City 's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper - yours, that is - using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece. COMFORTECH Press a button in your room at the Peninsula in Hong Kong, and a softly lit path helps you find the bathroom. If someone rings while you're caught short...
...computer files in folders and scrolling through lists of online-search results that it may seem perverse to try to reinvent the way we view these things on our computer screen. But two companies are aiming to do just that. Fractal:Edge has developed an interface called Fractal:PC ($20; available in March) that replaces file folders in Windows with a system of colored circles, above. Each circle represents a folder. If a circle is green, it means you have recently modified a file in that folder. If a circle is red, it means you haven't. To look inside...
Sometimes even a notebook computer is too bulky to carry around. But so far, tinier mini-PCs haven't taken off. Vulcan Inc., started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, may change that with its new FlipStart PC. Weighing in at less than 1 lb. and powered by a 1-GHz Transmeta processor, the FlipStart measures just 6 in. wide, 4 in. deep and 1 in. thick yet packs in a 30-GB hard drive and 256 MB of memory. Available in late 2004, it also has special touches to make navigating its bright 6-in., HDTV-quality display easier...