LEARNING ON THE FLY
A month ago, Candace Giuntoli was serving up margaritas and screwdrivers at McGee's Bar & Grill in Alameda, Calif. Today she's a geek wannabe, ordering up ISDN lines for customers...
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HITTING THE PEAK
This spring, Kannan Ayyar, 34, his wife, Lori, 35, and their two young daughters will move into their custom-built $2 million-plus Los Altos Hills dream home--complete with theater room, boardroom...
MORE AND MORE, WEB-WATCHERS ARE GETTING ONLY WHAT THEY PAY FOR
Since its inception, the Internet has proven false the cliche that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Net users have been feasting on a smorgasbord of information and...
TAX-RETURN SOFTWARE SPREADING ON THE WEB
On-line taxpayers are getting more options this year, and tax-preparation software might eventually disappear from stores. Instead, taxpayers will prepare their returns by paying a fee and running the programs...
ON-LINE PAYMENT TOOL MAY BRING BIG PAYOFF
Electronic commerce took what could be a critical step last week as Digital Equipment Corp. unveiled MilliCent, a system its developers say will drastically expand the ability to buy and...
WEB-FREEDOM GROUP LICKS INTERNAL WOUNDS
Cyberspace has no real headquarters. But the people who are trying to protect our liberties in cyberspace live in a very real world. So when the Electronic Frontier Foundation left...
NOT THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAMMAL
Regardless of all the conversation leading up to Sunday afternoon, Gilbert Brown will be an inescapable presence. Two weeks ago at Candlestick Park, he clogged the middle so doggedly that...
DECODING POSITIONS ON ENCRYPTION POLICY
If they ban encryption, only criminals will have privacy. Whenever I insist that there should be no restrictions on people's right to encryption, the scrambling of information to keep it...
NEW VERSION OF OFFICE WALKS AND TALKS LIKE A MAC
One day soon, employees at Apple Computer Inc. will be loading something new on their Macintosh computers: Microsoft Office 98. The software suite includes new Macintosh versions of Microsoft's word...
MALIBU RESIDENTS WON’T BE SANDBAGGED BY EL NINO
The citizens of this seaside Shangri-la would like us to believe the rich are just like you and me. And that when a big El Nino system is brewing off...