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Approximately 21 million U.S. households have more than one PC today, and that number is expected to jump to 31 million by 2003. Working at home is becoming increasingly popular as well: today's 37 million home offices are expected to balloon to 50 million in three years. Meantime, the Internet has become the "killer app" among all PC users, business or pleasure. And therein lies the most compelling reason to set up a network in the first place: to share a single modem and single Internet service...
Other people might not be so persistent. And that's the problem with today's "cutting edge" home networking products: they can't guarantee that the cheap-and-easy experience won't get tougher along the way. (To be fair, what tech product is ever bug free?) Kinks will be worked out, improvements will be made, and new versions of the Intelogis and every other new type of home-networking product will arrive in due time, just as you'd expect in any other area of consumer technology...
Cheating in business, of course, is older than the wheel. But corporate spooks and saboteurs are especially busy in today's global, high-tech economy, where the most prized assets can be stored on a disk and surveillance equipment can fit on a shirt button. To help slow them down, Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which carries a long prison term for intellectual-property theft. The good guys haven't had much luck yet, though not for lack of effort. The FBI has nearly tripled its investigations into corporate espionage in the past year...
...several sites let you mix and match images, music, text and background designs. At postcards.org I got some animated hamsters to dance to an Irish jig, then sent my masterpiece to an animal lover. A similar site, 123greetings.com offers a nice feature that allows you to order a card today for delivery, say, next Thursday. At the much smaller Micro-Images site microimg.com/postcards/) I placed a World War II plane on a dark blue background, added a military marching song and e-mailed it to my brother. He loved it! It was so simple, I felt guilty. For someone...
Plastics are used in food packaging and in the medical environment today because they have a documented history of health and safety benefits not offered by most alternatives. Your readers deserve the facts, not scare tactics. RONALD H. YOCUM, PRESIDENT & CEO American Plastics Council Washington...