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...power a new generation of Internet appliances. The strategy is part of "AOL Anywhere," and the deliciously timed announcement - don't think AOL boss Steve Case doesn't know this is Break It Up Week for Judge Jackson - was a pointed message that as the microprocessor moves off the desktop and invades the rest of the house, AOL and friends intend to do it without use of the Wintel alliance. (TIME.com is owned by Time Warner, which has agreed to be bought...
...walk into the building like you own the place," says Mark Smith, manager of appliance platforms at H-P Labs. When you arrive at work, you could simply stroll through a secure, smart door and listen as your desktop virtual assistant reads aloud your schedule for the day. The temperature and lighting will adjust automatically to your preferences. Though we probably won't attain the mythical paperless office, there will likely be less of the messy stuff lying about, thanks to high-tech, rewritable parchment. And forget about typing: sophisticated voice recognition will let you tell your PC what...
Alerted by their overseas offices, most multinationals escaped the Love Bug's full embrace. Tipped off by colleagues in England and Germany, computer-security personnel at AT&T's operations hub in New Jersey reported for duty by 6 a.m. to block the virus. Within hours, some 100 desktop machines were already infected, and technicians had to ditch more than 2 million infected e-mail messages. By contrast, colleges and universities, strongholds of Linux and Macintosh computer systems rather than the targeted Microsoft Windows, got off comparatively lightly...
...filing submitted to federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the Justice Department and 17 of the 19 states that have brought suits against Microsoft finally agreed: Microsoft should be chopped into two companies. One would develop and sell the Windows operating system that runs 85% of the world's desktop computers. The other business would handle everything else--most notably, the universally used "applications" software, such as Microsoft Office, which includes its dominant word processing and spreadsheet programs, and its Web-browsing Internet Explorer...
...Palm remains the standard in the handheld world. There are something like 3,000 programs written for the Palm OS and only a few hundred for the Microsoft platform. Among those 3,000 programs are applications that easily work with virtually every Microsoft program, rendering compatibility with your favorite desktop software a nonissue...