PLUGGED IN : BROWSER.GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT: The 43 employees of a little Half Moon Bay company are taking on an 80-nation satellite consortium for a piece of the ship-to-shore communications business worldwide. Globe Wireless provides messaging service between commercial ships and port and government officials, home offices, customers, friends and relatives. Page 3. HIGH-TECH ANGST: While the percentage of adults working in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. has not been higher since World War II, many sense they are trapped in a Darwinian struggle, with the computer-literate atop the food chain. The resulting anxiety has raised anew a question older than Karl Marx: Is technology destroying the good jobs, leaving the unskilled and just plain unlucky to survive on the economy's scraps? Page 4. VISA KEEPS COUNT: Visa International Inc. chose VeriSign Inc. to verify the identity of credit card users when they make purchases using the Internet. The bank credit card association is hoping that VeriSign's so-called digital certificates will provide added security for purchases made over the Internet. Such transactions are sometimes vulnerable to computer hackers who succeed in stealing people's credit card numbers. Worries about security have slowed the acceptance of electronic commerce while creating a market for technology like VeriSign's. NEWS BYTES NO MORE LINES: More than 50,000 people a week buy movie tickets through the Web site of the company that runs the 777-FILM line in cities nationwide. A user enters a ZIP code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. and is presented with nearby theaters and show times. Tickets are obtained through theater-lobby machines, the same used for tickets ordered by phone. Check out the site at: http://www.movielink.com or http://777FILM.com. MONTY MANIA: Monty Python Monty Python('s Flying Circus) British comedy troupe. The innovative group, formed in the early 1960s, came to prominence in the 1970s, first on television and later in films. is the Spam of comedy - a product with almost eternal shelf life that is something of an acquired taste. Those who can't get enough of the British comedy troupe, and who also happen to enjoy intricate computer games, will lick their lips over the new CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). ``Monty Python and the Quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the the Holy Grail Holy Grail: see Grail, Holy. A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. .'' The CD-ROM is cleverly built around the movie. Still images of the characters from the movie are animated in the classic Python Python, in Greek mythology Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent. In some myths the infant Apollo slew Python at the oracle of Gaea in Delphi; in others Apollo killed the serpent in order to claim the oracle for himself. stop-action style, moving something like marionettes and mouthing dialogue from the movie. Eric Idle, one of the original Python members, contributes additional voice-over narration.Non-gamers instead might prefer the new official Monty Python site on the World Wide Web, at http://www.pythonline.com. Be warned, however, that you'll need either Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. 2.0 or newer, or Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 3.0 or newer. You can't get there with other Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
GOLDEN DISCOVERY: Although this site is the Internet cousin to cable television's The Discovery Channel, Discovery.com. has a healthy dose of original stories not seen on television. In fact there is a different story every day; this week's stories all have focused in part on the Olympics. One story - titled ``Geeking for Gold'' - details how the games have been infiltrated by high-tech equipment, ranging from million-dollar bicycles to carbon-fiber archery archery, sport of shooting with bow and arrow, an important military and hunting skill before the introduction of gunpowder. England's Charles II fostered archery as sport, establishing in 1673 the world's oldest continuous archery tournament, the Ancient Scorton bows to paddle-wheel ``wave eaters'' that will improve times in the swimming competition.Address: http://www.discovery.com. RANDOM ACCESS LOW-TECH SOFT TOUCH: OK, so you have a fancy telephone that tells you the number of the person calling, that forwards calls for you, that'll take messages when you're gone. But the dang thing hurts your ears. There's a low-tech solution that works and is inexpensive. It's simply a foam pad that fits over the receiver of the telephone, providing cushioning for your ears. If you spend just a few minutes a day on the telephone, you probably don't need it. But if some of your calls take 30 minutes or more, or if you prop your telephone between shoulder and ear so you can take notes while you talk, the Ear Buff is well worth its $5 selling price. You can get the foam pad in an assortment of colors, and it works with both residential and office telephones. Call 800-99-EARBUFF for information. |
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