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...John is just like any one of us—unsure of his future and struggling with living a complicated life. If you think that Mayer’s world is completely foreign to the Harvard experience, I would direct you to his Xbox obsession, the mindless video game that keeps him from going crazy on the road where the demands never end. Sound familiar...
...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...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that while some kids are asking for these vintage favorites, parents and grandparents are also driving up demand and not just out of nostalgia. In a recessionary economy, parents who can't spring for a $300 XBox may still satisfy their kids with a less pricey updated classic, say, a Harry Potter Lego set. Cheap, classic board games are getting a boost too. Diane Quaiver of Villa Park, Ill., says her 18-year-old daughter lately spends more time at home with her boyfriend and other friends. "They play UNO, Monopoly," she says. "They haven't gone...
...Eminem. The Web's most wanted? Osama bin Laden. For more analysis on Web-search trends, check out the Yahoo! Buzz Index, which takes a daily snapshot of what's hot in various categories, and the Google Zeitgeist, which tracks entries head to head, such as PlayStation2 vs. Xbox...
...BILL GATES is worth more than $30 billion, thanks to his 12.3% stake in a resurgent Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the desktop on 90% of the world's PCs. Gates' empire extends to Internet access (MSN), television (MSNBC and a stake in cable giant Comcast), computer games (Xbox) and even philanthropy (the $24 billion Gates Foundation). Gates, 46, was slow to recognize the importance of the Internet. But with his ambitious .NET initiative--and diminished pressure from antitrust regulators--the world's richest man may end up dominating a whole new realm: cyberspace...