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While the worst growing pains seem to be over, complaints about service continue. Mark Meyer, a lawyer and constant cell-phone user from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., spends three months a year in Romania on business. He has two cell phones--one from AT&T for the States, the other from Romanian GSM carrier Connex. "You never lose a signal in Bucharest," says Meyer, "and the signal is always clear." But in New York, he can name five different spots along his 26-mile commute from Westchester to Wall Street where his phone will go dead every time. "It's maddening...
...response, Comey and his boss, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey, launched Project Exile in partnership with Richmond police chief Jerry Oliver and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The new procedure: anytime Richmond police found a gun on a drug dealer, user, convicted felon or suspect in a violent crime, the case would be tried under federal statutes that carry mandatory sentences of at least five years without parole--and longer for repeated or aggravated offenses...
Today, however, the software that matters most is online, where operating systems matter least. "No website," says Jobs, "knows whether it's a Mac or Windows on the other end of the line." In fact, for the home user who spends most of his computer time reading e-mail and browsing the Web, the plug-and-surf iMac is clearly a superior product--a fact vividly evidenced by the rise of Apple's consumer market share from 5% to a startling 12% in less than a year. In a little-noted but surely deliberate statement of purpose, Jobs devoted...
...Plans for MSN Messenger were originally announced a year ago, with beta testing to begin August 1998. In the intervening months AOL's Instant Messenger user base has bulked up to about 25 million, more than the number of subscribers who pay to use AOL's main services. Still, as with all free Internet services, the numbers of active user accounts are undoubtedly inflated by the ease of registering. And despite these large audiences, no one has figured out how to make any money on the free chat service, except to note that the client program commands an outsized amount...
...build a computer that appeals to both the high-end power user and the low-end, entry-level laymen? And retails for less than $200? That's the question the developers at EBIZ Enterprises asked themselves, and the answer they came up with may surprise you. In mid-August EBIZ will launch the Pia, the "Personal Internet Appliance," a user-friendly desktop machine that retails for $199 and runs pure, unadulterated Linux...