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...Gillette strategy. Just as that company virtually gives away razors to make a killing on blades, HP could opt to gather more strength in the PC and low-end server businesses in order to sell more service contracts as part of the package. "I certainly don't see PCs as white elephants," she says. "Getting on the desktop brings you a lot of opportunity...
...also thank him for turning the cell phone from a simple communication device into a mini-PC. Of course, just as Microsoft and its longtime partner Intel don't actually put together PCs, they aren't going to start churning out cell phones. What the two companies announced last week is a plan to license their blueprint of the innards of a cell phone to manufacturers; wireless companies can decide what the handset will look like and how much of the Microsoft software it will contain. While vastly increasing the versatility of your cell phone, the insides are standardized...
JUST LOOKING Lots of people watch DVDs on their computers. Microsoft's free media player for Windows XP, on 17 million PCs, is a popular way to do it. It turns out, though, that Microsoft has been logging what people are watching, and even what songs they're listening to, according to the Associated Press, which got Redmond to fess up. Microsoft says it's updating the player's privacy disclaimer to warn users. But it won't rule out selling the information to advertisers down the line. Talk about paying the peeper...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...