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...Korhonen, 34, is one of them. PC Doctor, his diagnostic software company based in Emeryville, Calif., was mushrooming with clients like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel--but state taxes and high costs were a drag on growth. He spent a year checking out Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Towns | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Internet today, and this lack of regulation will be only too clear. The most popular way for spyware companies to install their software is by piggy-backing on the installation of other programs. These piggy-backed applications will rarely show up in the Add/Remove Programs control panel on a PC, since they are not meant to be uninstalled without the original program losing its functionality...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: End Spyware Now | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...liked to hack Steve,” said Klug, who admitted to pranks such as switching Benton’s new Macintosh computer with an old PC and stitching fake fur to the underarms of his coat...

Author: By Sarah J. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Holography Pioneer Benton Dies at 61 | 11/18/2003 | See Source »

...Sims may be the most popular PC game of all time, but there are plenty of players who don't find it escapist enough. So what if you're supposed to manage willful little people through their eating, sleeping and bathroom habits? Isn't that their parents' job? Space Colony (PC, $40, Gathering) takes the Sims concept and runs with it for about a billion miles. You're still managing an unruly bunch of little people, but now they're trying to build industries--ranging from tourism to chicken farming--on alien worlds, and are beset all the while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Top 10 Video Games: Who's Got Game? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...anymore. Temple of Elemental Evil (PC, $45, Atari) is a computerized homage to one of the best-loved adventure games of all time, enhanced with up-to-date graphics. As with the original, loading up your character (and up to four fellow adventurers) with your choice of spells and skills is almost as fun as the action itself. Your goal for the game depends on these choices: make yourself morally good, and you must rescue a missing elf princess from the eponymous temple; choose the path of the evildoers, and you may end up taking over the place. If Dungeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Top 10 Video Games: Who's Got Game? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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