Word: desktop
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...recent Saturday night, a bank of video cameras above the bar flashes a kaleidoscope of images: women's cleavage, men's butts, couples kissing, faces laughing. My pal Sora and I snag a seat at one of the two dozen desktop video consoles dotting the cozy, cavelike space and push a button to start channel surfing. When we see someone interesting, we use a joystick to zoom in for a better view. Within a few minutes, a message pops up on screen: "Channel 33 says hi! Would you like to go to that channel? Press A if so. Press...
...away razors to make a killing on blades, HP could opt to gather more strength in the PC and low-end server businesses in order to sell more service contracts as part of the package. "I certainly don't see PCs as white elephants," she says. "Getting on the desktop brings you a lot of opportunity...
...from Microsoft, but the places you can hide are getting scarce. The company controls your desktop with Windows and has invaded your living room with the Xbox. Now it wants to get inside your cell phone too. This is not necessarily a bad thing. If you can get more rest on a train in the future because the guy next to you is checking his office e-mail via Outlook or browsing full-color Web pages on his handset instead of screaming "I'm on the train!" into it, you can thank Bill Gates for the peace and quiet...
...implanting electrodes into the bodies of patients to restore vision, treat brain disorders and help victims of paralysis regain motor function, while engineers are creating hybrid prosthetic body parts such as ankles, legs and knees in which silicon chips are melded with living tissue. Computers are moving off the desktop - and making our bodies bionic...
Perhaps the most ingenious of Jimmy Surf’s features, however, is that users access the program through www.jimmysurf.com, which means there are no Jimmy Surf desktop icons to indicate a covering of one’s Internet tracks. For doubting Thomases (or skeptical porn fiends, as it were) who want to witness Jimmy Surf work his magic before signing up for the $7.95 per month service, Guttman even offers a free downloadable two-week trial version. With over 11,000 downloads in the two months since its Internet debut, Jimmy Surf seems to be riding a veritable tsunami...