Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Princess is the name of the (a) hottest London restaurant (b) newest Las Vegas hotel (c) high-tech cell phone (d) world's largest cruise ship...
...Many tech companies would have you believe that heaven is a TV set-top box that lets you surf the Web and send e-mail from the couch. The TiVo box knows better. The new service, available in the next year from some cable operators, lets you pause, rewind or watch regular TV in slow motion--handy during a ball game or when the phone interrupts ER. TiVo will also store up to 20 hours of programming based on your viewing habits. One thing it won't do is skip commercials...
...thousands of servers and workstations at MCI were crippled by a bug that disables executable files and locks users out of .DOC and .XLF files. And although the origin of the virus remains unknown, the fact that it was timed to propagate during the hours when MCI's tech support is least staffed strongly suggests a deliberate attack. One official grimly characterized the virus as the first legitimate incident of cyber-terrorism he had ever seen -- not a surprising spin when it's your corporate network that's writhing on the floor...
...spirit of entrepreneurship has inspired some specialized objects of philanthropic attention. Katrina Garnett, CEO of Crossworlds Software in Burlingame, Calif., and one of the high-tech world's few female chief executives, launched a foundation last year devoted to encouraging high school girls to pursue computer science. Kirsch, meanwhile, plans to pump $100,000 a year into identifying all asteroids hurtling too close to earth. "There are very few things people can do to save the world," he says. "This is one of them...
...home user, there are basically two ways to buy a computer: my way and my mom's way. Since this is my column, I'll tell you my way first. As the tech columnist for the nation's pre-eminent newsweekly, I naturally need the biggest, fastest, scariest computer in the land. And since my company is buying, damn the expense. I require video and 3-D cards to run the coolest games...er, spreadsheets; at least 96 megabytes of RAM so I can keep half a dozen programs open at once; a 17-in. monitor...