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...Sprint PCS is taking over the corner that used to be Sage's market...
...society where smut isn't readily available, easy access to the Internet is exposing more kids to pornography, says Kim Yong Hak, a sociology professor at Yonsei University. In a survey of 10 elementary schools in Seoul, he found 10% of 11-year-olds had visited porn sites. With PCs in kids' bedrooms and PC rooms on every street corner, it isn't easy to turn back the tide. Says Kim: "With one key stroke, a child can switch from an educational site to a porn site...
...your DVD and your MP3? The tech industry is learning that one of its biggest challenges is building in enough obsolescence. A key reason for the current slump in computer sales is that box makers haven't convinced consumers that the new models do much that their current PCs can't. And as Microsoft labors on its new operating system, Whistler, it's struggling to build in enough must-have features to make people feel they need to ditch Windows...
...websites. No one site has a lock on the best deals. That's why my favorite sites aren't the ones where you directly place orders but rather those that let you quickly compare prices on as many as 20 different sites at once: qixo.com (for both Macs and PCs) and farechase.com (for PC users only). These sites work like search engines by scouring dozens of other sites, then presenting the best prices in one handy list. To book a flight, just click; a link takes you back to the site offering the deal that you like. Just remember: neither...
...hard not to get a sobering sense of the impending death of traditional, text-based linear narrative. Will generations to come ever know the delights of picking up a good book and reading it from start to finish? Or will they rather skim through it on their tablet PCs, Speeder Reading what the computer has predetermined to be the best bits based on their previous preferences, choosing alternative endings, letting the robot dog finish it for them...