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...Teamwork Get your PC to do something useful in its spare time - like help find a cure for cancer. A collaborative effort by Oxford University, Intel and U.S. tech firm United Devices - billed as the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken - will harness the unused power of millions of PCs around the world to screen molecules for cancer-fighting potential. You can enlist your PC and download the necessary software at www.ud.com...
...software giant got everything wrong so far? Its Windows CE operating system, which has been around since the mid-1990s and powers Pocket PCs, claims just 10% of the handheld market. "Our initial attempts with these devices weren't that great," concedes Ed Suwanjindar, product manager for Microsoft's mobile division. Unlike the Palms, which won devotees for their elegant simplicity, Pocket PCs have been criticized for trying to cram in too many features. Such luxuries as a built-in MP3 player and high-resolution color screens have resulted in heavier, pricier offerings that start...
...gained only 20,000 users. At this point its viewers are primarily using a PC with a CD-ROM drive, a 2D graphics card, a sound card and a digital video-broadcasting card. A new portal will allow subscribers to customize the streaming video they receive over their PCs. Of course the company's target audience is much larger - the 80 million European satellite and cable TV households currently receiving television and audio via Astra's satellites. These potential customers will need set-top boxes built to Europe Online's specifications, which are scheduled to go on sale this autumn...
...becoming PCs, PCs are turning into TVs and phones and personal digital assistants are morphing into portable multimedia devices. But it is not just the devices that are converging. In the home, Internet, telephone, television and stereo systems are fusing into a networked unit that can be controlled either centrally or on the move...
Emily Blue, 25, was driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...