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...have probably heard that there are no games yet that tap the potential of the Playstation 2 system. Not that it matters, since the hardware remains difficult to get. Still, "Kessen," by Koei Games, feels like a hint at the Playstation 2's potential as a new form of interactive entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thundering Hordes Invade Your Home | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang, is a medical PDA that will store case records and allow doctors to write on-the-spot case notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handheld Combat | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Clearly it was time to bring out the big guns. The two leading software tools are Spam Buster contactplus.com/spam and SpamKiller spamkiller.com) Both tap quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases. This is what my Eudora filters would have looked like had I played cat and mouse for a few more centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Swallow The Spam | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

Beijing's choicest cocktail crowd gathers on nearby Xingfu Cun Zhong Lu, at the Neo Lounge, which is minimalist, marble-topped and features a large Buddha stoically surrounded by champagne bottles. All your favorite Western poisons are available. Also on tap: the deafening cacophony of bright young things, local and foreign, that is part of the scene from Tokyo to Toronto. To be part of it, call (86-10) 6416-5615. Too tame? Pop around another corner to Club Vogue, on Gongti Dong Lu, where the state-of-the-art sound system has channeled the dubby deckwork of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All You Cats: Beijing Is the Brand New Thing | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...that Koizumi cannot depend on the smoke and mirrors favored by his predecessors. For most of the past decade, Japan has stuck like rust to its failed formula for growth, shoveling public funds into ludicrous projects like unneeded dams and highways to nowhere. Not only did the government tap tax revenues for these projects, but also pensions and the $10 trillion in personal savings kept in accounts at the post office. Japanese have had enough of that. A citizens group in Shizuoka, 200-km south of Tokyo, recently collected 270,000 signatures on a petition against a $1.6 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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