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...crucial to Web users but can hog disc-drive space. The company's latest innovation allows the Opera browser to function like rival Microsoft's ubiquitous?PowerPoint software to make presentations on the Web. It's an open question when the company can expect a market listing now that high-tech stocks are out of favor in both Europe and the U.S. Having succeeded so far with its unorthodox business model, though, Opera's executives are confident they can continue to offer everything their bigger rivals do, only smaller and faster...
...Also difficult to undermine is the fan-assisted denial that doping is somehow different from drug abuse; that it involves only euphoria-free, high-tech products like muscle-building steroids and blood oxidizing agents administered by attentive medical experts. "Sports fans protect the heroic image of athletes by using the term doping rather than taking drugs in sports," Michel points out. In reality, the drugs of choice for athletes today are amphetamines, cocaine, heroin and huge doses of caffeine-substances experts say often escape detection through a combination of masking agents, passage of time and connivance by officials. A popular...
...begin with a new U.S. Administration? Not well, from China's perspective. In the past two weeks, Washington has been hosing down China with acid, suggesting that a high-tech Chinese fiber-optic system was helping Saddam or last week announcing plans for a protest of Chinese human-rights violations. George Bush promised during the campaign that he would not make the Clintonian "mistake" of treating the Chinese as "strategic partners." Enough to rattle windows in Beijing. "Jesus," says a diplomat who helped press the pillowy strategy of trade and talk in the '90s. "Talk about a Great Wall...
Where does that leave you? Dollar-cost averaging, fully funding your 401(k) and staying diversified, one hopes. There's no telling when things will turn up. My guess is not real soon, given that we're in a business-spending slowdown and the most popular sector, tech, has been creamed. But you want to be invested when the mood shifts. Otherwise all this pain will have been for nothing...
...wrong here--cares about those annoying, ubiquitous banner ads. The solution? Bigger ads! A coalition of websites, including AOL and Yahoo, has agreed on standards for larger, harder-to-ignore ads that will supplement the much maligned banner ad. For a glimpse of things to come, check out the tech-info site News.com which is already running the new ads. Let's hope they have a banner year...