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...cloud of lawsuits peskily buzzing around, it looks as if Microsoft will once again be crying all the way to the bank. Despite Win98's mixed reviews, the early projections from industry analyst Dataquest say that it will account for 51 percent of all operating systems shipped on new PCs this year. Obviously, that will go up even more next year...
...requirement" for anyone seeking computer-literate employees, says Ken Dean, staffing manager for an Ericsson Inc. telecommunications facility in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Not only students but also many current workers who wonder whether they might find a better job elsewhere regularly surf the Web on their PCs to see what is available...
...that dreaded time in gadgetry again: you're going to have to choose between competing technologies. Did you bet Beta or VHS? Did you do Windows or bite into Macintosh? What call did you make on cellular vs. PCS phones? The next coin toss is in photography, in which a new line of digital cameras that store pictures on memory chips rather than film is fighting it out with Advanced Photo System models, an innovative take on traditional 35-mm film...
...tomorrow's digital photography is blurring. Some photo developers can already turn your film prints into digital files, a trend that Kodak and Intel hope to nurture with a jointly created Picture CD service slated to begin later this year. Kodak also has a new $349 "film drive" for PCs that converts a roll of APS film into sharp, digitized pictures. Imagek, a unit of Irvine Sensors, is attempting to merge the two worlds inside the camera. Its "electronic film system," which converts any 35-mm model into a digital camera, is expected in August...
Also at "E3" this week, Sega stages a comeback in console gaming with Dreamcast, a system due for U.S. release in the fall of 1999 (November '98 in Japan). The unit, designed with a version of the Windows CE operating system used in handheld PCs, is said to be visually richer and more precise than anything else on the market (128 bit, as opposed to the 64-bit Nintendo machine). Lackluster titles put Sega, onetime king of the consoles, far behind Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Is Dreamcast the answer? Let's see the software first. REAL TEAM PLAYERS...