Word: screening
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...MAIL, MOST ANYWHERE MailStation ($99, $9.95 a month), from Cidco Inc., based in Morgan Hill, Calif., is the size of a hardcover tome and very portable, with a small but readable flip-up screen. The company provides access with local dial-ups from most U.S. cities, but only e-mail is available--no surfing. Like nearly every other Internet appliance, Cidco commits you to its own Internet service when you buy the device...
...program. "The tool," or simply "it," as the program is now gingerly called, doesn't sweep the Internet for key words in text or subject line. Rather, deployed within an Internet service provider network known to be used by a criminal suspect, it searches out unique "authentication strings" - screen name, password, telephone number - that are generated whenever the suspect connects to the ISP. All the e-mails identified by those strings are downloaded to an FBI computer housed in a closed container at the ISP office. When the surveillance is over, the FBI computer returns to the field office...
...groundbreaking move, King will be offering chapter one of his next opus, "The Plant," on the Internet, where readers will be able to print it right off the screen without any intermediary transaction. But in order to keep the page-turner scrolling, King fans will have to pony up a dollar per installment - and hope that their fellow readers are equally honorable: If less than 75 percent of people who download pay up, King will simply stop posting chapters, and no one will find out what happens. And that might even include King, who hasn't written the book...
...color screen that made me wonder if my home library would soon be gathering dust in the garage. In a single generation the SoftBook has gone from a so-so monochrome LCD screen to a brilliant, million-color VGA version good enough to reprint magazine photos. To show me what it could do, the model I saw came with this year's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED swimsuit edition preloaded--in eye-popping...
...senior researcher at tiny Nichia Chemical Industries, a company in southeastern Japan, had created a little azure beam that would revolutionize the global electronics industry. Nakamura's blue light-emitting diode was the missing link needed to produce cheap, energy-saving illumination in everything from traffic lights to big-screen TVs; it also promised greatly expanded storage capacity on digital video discs...