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t's tough to be in the computer business these days. If you follow the high-tech news, the reversal of fortunes is laid out daily in black and white —and in many cases, ledger-shocking red. As I write this in the dying days of summer, I' ve just read that mail-order PC vendor Gateway is retreating fiom Asia and may also exit from Europe later this year. I' ve also read that former handheld darlings, Palm and Handspring, are just shadows of what they were a year ago, at least asfar as stock values are concerned. And on it goes. From a businessperspective, the outlook remains grim. But researchand development goes on, and technology users expect that there will be another next big thing. Figuring out where it wifi come &om is the challenge. One place to look is th'e Intel Developers Forum. Since 1999, the company has handed out Intel Innovative PC Awards

to companieswhose products makePCseasier to use. Somewould arguethat you can't use"PC" and"easyto use"in the same sentence,and there are dayswhen even TClvsmost seasoned pmduct testers would agree. So we tend to appmach claims of such innovation warily. You can check out the winners on Intel's site (www.intel.com), but I was generally underwhelmed by what I read. Forexample,among the noteworthy features ofone of the winners was "an easy-to-find on/off switch." Well,

duh. Another notebook's standby and hibernation features were deemed to be praiseworthy.Several years ago, I had a 486 notebook &om the same manufacturer that had

bulletproof hibernation—sowhat's the big deal? To befair. there were someinteresting implementations

anyone working in digital video. I became a true believer of FireWire when I took a DV camcorderon vacation thissummer. On returning home, I simply connected a cable between the FireWire ports of the camcorder and a DV iMac,fired up the iMovie software (included with the «omputer), and was editing the video minutes later —it really was that simple (the artistry of movie making itself is, of course, another matter). The irony of proclaiming the novelty of FireWire in 2001 will not be lost on our Mac readers, who can rightly point out that FireWire has been a standard feature on a couple of generations of Macs, and that it's Apple's technology in the first place. But I digress... One PC that didn't make it on the Innovative PC Awards list, but which was presented as a concept design at the Developers Forum was the Taishan, jointly devel-

oped by Intel and Legend Holdings. This concept PC addressesa concern that has been discussed in our Letters column for the past few issues—noisy computers. The announcement of the Taishan was actually sent to us by Seagate. whose contribution to the project is the hard drive. Seagate says its Barracuda ATA IV drives are equipped with fluid dynamic bearing motors, which make them "virtually silent." The Taishan also usescooling fans that are designed to operate quietly. Overall. the concept design includes a few other interesting advancements, such as USB 2.0 and a notebook computer-like low-power sleep mode, making it available more quickly than if it were shut completely off. No FbeWire in the Taishan, though, and this illustrates the dilemmas and potential traps facing mainstream PC designers. If you are building for volume, USB 2.0 is the

few vendors besidesApple that provides FireWire support out of the box. It makes sense for Sony to do so, sinus the port complements what is already found on Sony camcorders. For PC makers without that vested interest, however, going after this limited market may not be worth it. But FireWire is just one example —you can find other

sub-groups of PC userswith specialized needsfor sound or video or storage waiting to be served. PC makers may want to dismiss niche customers, but they may discover that tomorrow's PC game is nothing but niche customers.

Feadbadtplease And speaking of trying to figure out what the customer wants: in the fall, we assesswhat we' ve accompfished at TheComputer Paper during the year, and begin to develop next year's game plan. Asking readers what they think has been a central part of that planning for manyyears. We heldsome focus groups a few weeks ago,and you may have noticed invitations to fifi out a readership questionnaire, which can be found on our Web site (www.canada-

computes,mm). I would also invite you to email me directly with suggestions for themes, issues, or specific topics you'd like to see covered on the pagesof The Cmuputer Paper next year. We can't be afi things to afi people, but I think we' ve maintained a pretty goodtrack record of covering topics

many ofyou find useful andinteresting. Readersgiving us a gentle prod in one direction or the other has been an important part of our planning, so let us know what

you' rethinking. Enjoy the issue David Tanaka, Editor

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that one could legitimately call advancements in ease of uses built-in wireless networking, FireWire ports and tool-less casesand expansion slots. These appeal to small subsets of computer users, but if you fit the profile, you' ll like the innovation. Tool-lesscases, for example, mean

wifi eventually support the updated USB spec—many more than wifiever support FireWire. Yet FireWire is firmly entrenched in digital video,

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sales.But while the basicdesktop box may be slightly passkjust now, there's a

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whole new frontier opening up. The excitement is shilling to how these beige boxes connect â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to each other or to

IEEE 1394) to deliver images with resolutions of up to 2,400x4,800 dots per inch.

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interim solution for anyone using numerous USB devices.

USB2.0off ersa datarate of 480 Nbps,making itabout40 timesfasterthan USB 1.1.

compliance testing, which should have the side efFect of eliminating the occasional glitches seen with VSB 1.1. such ashaving

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And while VSB is on practically every PC (and Mac) motherboard, IEEE 1394 is making headway there too. For example, AOpen Inc. (wwwaopen.com) has several motherboards with IEEE 1394 built in, including the AXSSP-1394. and ASUSTeK Computer Inc.(www.asus.com) has the P3B-

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802.11a (because it comes from a project that actually began first). IEEE 802.11a not only works in a different range of frequencies. in the 5 GHz band. it's also up to five timesfaster, topping out at 54 Mbps. Scott McL aughlin, ne t working spokesperson at Intel, predicts that IEEE 802.11a products should start appearing beforethe end of the year.However, he recommends that users with average throughput requirements don't need to hold out. "If you don't need the high performance of 802.11a, 802.lib is going to be fine," he says. "There's going to be a life

for both products." Fortunately, the transition from one standard to the other should be fairly painless, a "phased network migration" much like the recent move I'rom 10 Mbps to 100 lvfirps Ethernet. It will be easy to mix the two standards, pmviding extra performance where it's most needed. Expect to see "dual mode" access points, which will connect roaming devices using either version. And, in fact. the upcoming transition to 802.11a doesn't seem to be holding back adoption of 802.11b. For example, Eric Johnson, wireless practice executive with IBM Global Services, reports that IBM's new lab building in Markham, Onto

which houses more than 1,200 employees,was designed from the ground up to be completely wireless. Johnson also n otes t hat Starbucks has been implementing 802.11 on a test basis in its coffee shops, making them more anractive to business people on the go. Clearly, the day of ubiquitous networking is not far offi

Sluafoogt Of all the new connectivity technologies, the oddest by far is Bluetooth. It's intended for an entirely new kind of application: the Personal Area Network (PAN), a sort of aura of connectivity that follows you wherever

you go. Bluetooth allows up to eight devices (potentially seven slaves and a master) within a 10 m radius to form a "piconet.n These can be linked together into everchanging "scatternets." Although both Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 are wireless. there' s surprisingly little overlap in their applications. IEEE 802.11 provides a persistent connection and

What about HomeRF? integrated and production volumes escalating. The HcmeRFWorking Group Inc. (www.hcmerf.crg) also touts the technology's extra support

ight now, IEEE802.11 seems poised to sweep the field in wireless networking.

However,it should Rot be forgotten that there' s still another competing standard out there. Until recently, HomeRF has been the predominantbasis for consumer-focused networking products.

for streaming applications and ability to cany multi ple voice connections. These features couldcertainly give HomeRF an edge forhomeoriented convergence applications... if any

The tide has largely turned against HomeRF.

actually materialize soon enough to matter.

In the business world, IEEE 802.11 is already dose toa sure thing. That' s going tc drive

However,given the current rate ofadoption on these technologies, this seems unlikely. On the downside, HomeRF is still relatively slow. For example, Intel's AnyPoint Wireless Home Networkruns atjust 1.6 Mbps. HomeRF 2.0is on the way, with 10 Mbps speed, and

costsdown in theconsumermarketas welL It's alsogoing to make 802.11 desirable from the point of view of compatibility.

more promised, but this may be too little, too

HomeRFproducts currently enjoy apriceadvantage,butthatgap is doomed to narrowquickly.

late. Bottom line: fora self-contained home net-

work, HomeRFremains a perfectly valid solution. However, from a longer-term perspective,

A significant turnin g pointcame in March,

itmight be betterto splurge a bit more to get profes sional IEEE 802.11 equipment,oreven to

viith Intel's decision to rely on IEEE 802.11 for

the future of its WLAN line. The company will continue to sell and support its existing AnyPointHomeRF products, but Intel clearly

wait for lower-priced consumer products based

thinksthe future belongs to 802.11.

HomeRFcould be one kilerproduct away from a comeback,if only in its intended consumer-

on the 802.11 standard. Of course,things can change quickly, and

HcmeRF products currently enjoy a price advantage,but that gap is doomed to narrow

orientedniche.We'llknow soon enough. — Frank Lank

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infrared (IR) technology. In October, Hewlett-Packard will ship its grat Bluetoothenabled printer, the DeskJet 995c. This would make it much easier to wirelessly send Blas to a printer &om a notebook or handheld than the previous IR ports. Yet another type of applicahon for Bluetooth might be to finally eliminate that tangle of wires behind your PC. Mouse. keyboard, and other simple devices could easily connect via Bluetooth.

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In addition, hlicrosoft rated slightly better in key suite programs, such as presentations with PowerPoint (bugs killed an otherwise (unct(onagy superior Corel Presentations) and Fxcel (although, to my astonishment, Corel's Quattro Pro sprmdsheet was faster and had more formulas and functions). ln the key area of Web development, hiicrosoft's FrontPage was clearly superior to the Core) add-in produce Tregix. And the ning Ofhce XP's FrontPege now has no counterpart on Corel's hide other than the greatly improved Web output (rom the individual programs in Corel O ffice2002.This might very weg be the story of Microsoft Office XP: never quite dominating but ahvays having some advantage relative to its competitors.

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PerfectExperts areeasyto turn off and on, and with screen resolutions of 1,024x768 or higher now commonly available, the extra space they occupy is no longer a problem. When using any of the Coral WordPerfect O lfic e programs,userscan accessfourtypes of hdp that will aid them in being pmductive no matter what the task Say I have forgotten how to make footnotes in a WordPerfect document. Rather than going to the help system, I check out t he Perfectfixpert. Clicking on t h e PerfectExpert's footnotes item quickly helps me with my task If I then want to format the footnote text, I can right-click in the footnote area for a context-sensitive menu that offers me an option for formattingthis is mysecond level of help support. My third level of support is the properties too!bar. Every time a user changes the major object they are working on (switching from spreadsheet to chart in Quattro Pro or free text to table in Wordperfect, for example) the property bar quickly, and almost unnoticed, offers a whole new set of buttons and pulldown menus with the menu options for the right-mouse click button changing, too. Finally. all else failing, I can click on the Help menu. What Corel has done very wefi is to spread the help system out across context-sensitive menus, task panes, and property bars. Now, when I suspect the command is somewhere buried in the menu system, I feel much more confident that I will be able to discoverquickly where the command or option I need is with WordPerfect Oflice.

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Once Xp also has MSN Messenger Integration, group schedules, WebDAV archiving, and versioning plus free/busy sharing through Outlook and Microsoft Exchange. The downside is that with the notable exception of WebDAV, all of these are proprietary, with sharing/integration solely among Microsoft servers. In the area of delivering output to the Web, WordPerfect Office dearly outshines Olfice XP.For example, Coral Presentations offers more Web output options than PowerPoint. including four layout choices (thumbnail page control and frameenhanced layout are my favourites); five graphic image types (GIF, )PEG, PNG, and Flash SWF); four page styles, with a thumbnail sketch of each to choose from;

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page size and common elementslike title. numbering, and other features;and, in general,very fi ne controloverhow your presentation wig appear online. As well, the Wizard is reliable and easy to use. In contrast, Office XP's PowerPoint offers limited control over Web output, with no t hing ma tching Co r el Presentations. Ditto for Quattro Pro over Excel in Web page output (Excel does, however, have more XML options), and on through the suites with Corel offering more Web output options and delivering HTML that is shorter and cleaner than its Office XP counterparts. However, neither suite can match a thirdparty utility called Click-to-Convert fiom Inzone Software (wwwdiddocoaverttom), which produces consistently high quality HTML output posing as aprinter option in any Windows program.

Cellahssahen Cogaboration has always been important in organizations. But now, with more people working in spoataneous, project-oriented teams, the need is even greater. As we have seen, Microsoft provides links to SharePoint Team Service and SharePoint

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Exchange, including messaging, public storage/archiving, and workfiows. In the latter two cases, caution is recommended as theseservices are subject to upcoming .NET and other Web Services changes. However, by putting the infrastructure for a meeting or a Web discussion right into Office XP's menus and t oolbars, Microsoft has certainly moved a step ahead in easing collaboration and sharing. But both suites offer a fairly robust set of collaboration services. Both allow users to share a spreadsheet, document. or database table (but not slideshows) for collaborative review, for comparingfiles or editing a common file. These review facilities inc)ude having a user list of who can accessthe document and with what privileges. The owner of the document can review all the changes and has several options for accepting and

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CorelDraw Essentials has no su«h support tools. The closest are some of the automated help examples and the Help tutors and Quick Tours. But, unlike Adobe's Hints, Corel's tutors are not context sensitive or always open in task panes and windows. For the legion of new digital camera users and graphic newbies, CorelDraw Essentials doesn't go as far to unlock all the goodies available.

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But what a set of goodies. Coral Essentials is ahead of all the other mid-price programs for features. It has all of the masking, brush, and layer/object tools of Corel PhotoPaint, and all of the drawing, transformation, and text-manipulation tools of CorelDraw —albeit one version behind. In addition, users get two powerful utilities in Corel Capture and Cumulus Canto LE, the album features of which are great for digital camera and Web users who

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bene6ts from bug 6xes (really only a few) and notably faster performance; and the combination of better speed, power of a full graphics suite, and a price of $150 makes it good value. On the bad side: new digital camera and Web graphics users won't 6nd the learning tools that other software vendors are implementing. But r emember, both CorelDraw and Photopaint start &om a position of strength, being the easiest of the top-of-the-line programs to use. In sum, if you are a new graphics user

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USB 2.0 • USB ImplementersForum Inc.:Indudes FAQ and excellent

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wwwzayanfetom/p)394b. • FireWire Watch: Operated by Real Progress LLC, this is a good listing of all types of FireWire products. www.iw-welch.corn IREE 802.11 • Wireless Ethef net Compatibility Alliance: Members include 3Com, Cisco, IBM, InteL and Microsoft. Site includes severalgood FAQs, a glossary,and a selection ofwhite papers. www.wbg.org

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ly TemVenells t's taking a while for the application service provider (ASP) concept to catch on with small businesses even though th e r ationale underlying the ASP modd is straightforward and

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the small business sector over the last 12 months or so. "First-generation applications were SI(owing small businesses to get online,

Over the last year or so, however, many smaller Canadian businesses have started to take a shma to ASPs, and ASPs, in turn, have started to focus on how they can better serve smaller operations. Jon Gibe, an associate analyst with the business-to-business commerce gmup at New York-based Jupiter Media Metrix

developa Web page,and build transactional capabiTities,u Gibs says. "Now you have a second generation of applications being offered by small business ASPs that are much more aimed at working with the internal processes of a business to help that business develop faster and to better compete with larger players."

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Plains, Microsoff, and Impressa applications. fohn Bush, chief solutions oflicer with Ascends, says that when customers log onto Ascends's site, they have a customizable workspace. They can access Great Plains Siebel's Front Office (sales and marketing, customer and field service. and call centre services), Microsoft Exchange platform, Microsoft Office 2000 applications. and hnpressa BizGear Web design and hosting platform. CUents can choose which applications they need immediately, then add applica-

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Toronto. "It allows them access to fairly sophisticated applications that, in most cases. if they were to buy them, install them, and run them would be prohibitive. With an ASP, it is easier for them to deploy these kinds of sophisticated applications while getting the same competitive advantage out of the tools that the larger companies get."

allows them to better manage IT costs and more efFectively plan long-term IT infrastructure needs, Bush says. Ascenda users can set permissions for various services, so someone in sales. for example, might be aUowed access to pmductivity and CRM applications, but not Web design or hosting applications.' Ascends's long-term goal is to become something of a portal, offering business information, news, and services that can be customized by users. As an example, in subseqvent versions of the Ascends solution, small business users could have instant accessto email without having to go into the email application. T omnto-based Co n exys Cor p . (wwwmaelysmm) isoff'eringanASP-basedset

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phone service "reads" email using text-tospeech technology. Companiespay a monthly feeof$14.95 per user, which includes up to 20 minutes of inbound and outbound telephony and 20 MB of storage space. One of the early players in the smag business ASP market is San Frsnciscth Calif.-based BigStep (wmxbigstep.corn), which hal offered ASP-based e-commerce solutions to smag businesses since 1998. BigStep Basic (US$9.95 per month) includes instructions and templates for designing a Web site, tools for online customer surveys and creating mailing lists, and 12 MB of storage space and site host-

By taking theASProute,many ofthese companieshave opened upwhole newmarkets for themselves, reaching businesse sthatmay havewanted to use their solutions but foundlicensing,setup,and maintenancecosts prohibitive.

ing. Bigstep Professional (US$24.95 per month) includes up to 10 secure email addresses, greater site customizability, toolsto track customer movements on the site, and improved communications tools. BigStep Advantage (US$54.95 per month) is designed to help increase trsfffc to ecommerce sit es. It includes a Search Engine Manager for submitting a site to over 100 popular search engines and tracking their effectiveness in directing tra16c to the site. This monthly service includes more storage space and advanced Web site design tools.

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online customers in droves. These were some of the provocative remarks Dr. Ann Cavoukian, information and privacy commissioner for Ontario (www.ipc.oh.cs), made at the launch of the Privacy Diagnostic Tool (PDT), a series of tests that evaluate a company's privacy practices. The PDT — which was designed by Cavoukian's commission with help I'rom Guardent inc. (www gusrdeatcom) of Walt ham, Mass., and PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcgcb8(.corn) in Toronto — is ofFered for free to businesses. The tool h elps companies assess whether their information-management practices are privacy-friendly and conform to the fair information privacy practices that have been adopted worldwide. The PDT tests several areas including accountability. consent, accuracy, safe

guards, openness. and individual access. It then IP'ves an overall picture of a company's privacy policies and o&ers suggestions to improve consumer privacy protection. "The tool is to help a company get itself sorted out as to where it should start, what it has in place and what it does not have in place," says Michael Deck. privacy director for with PricewaterhouseCoopers' global risk management services in Toronto. "It is not intended to be an in-depth analysis of your entire privacy operations. It does not tell you if you are in compliance with any particular [privacy[ act or legislation. It is intended to get businesses oriented to what the best [privacy[ practices are so they can get a handle on what to do next." Cavoukian notes that "pressure is mounting on a daily basis for companies to protea people's privacy. It is no longer business as

usual. Privacy and the public's response to Companies have often failed in their mandate to protect people's private information, says Cavoukian. As a result, people have begun to boycott online commerce because they don't trust many businesses to protect or stop the misuse of their confidential information. And when consumers must provide private information, many simply outright give false information.

"Eight y-fourpercent ofInternet users say they now refuse to provide information because they are unsure what it will be used for." In March, Statistics Canada found that consumer purchases online accounted for less than .01 percent of all personal purrhasesofproductsorservicesin 1999.This amounted to some $41 7 million generated through online purchases. By comparison,

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tionality is key to selling people on the ComboBox." —Glenn Ward Be8 Canada ice to your television. Throw in a wireless keyboard and a remote control, and you' re completely wired to the world. The ComboBox lets you watch TV while waiting for email, engaging in a chat room session. or standing by for instant massaging. Bell is also equipping it with a browser, sothat you can surf the Web at ease. And if you have a TV with picture-inpicture, you can watch and surf at the same time. As well, the unit includes a 40 GB I'ersonal Video Recorder ( PVR). (It's based on the EchoStar 721. EchoStar supplies Fxpressvu with ag its home satellite receivers.) The PVR is a neat device. It' s essentially a hard disk-based sddeo recorder that provides the full range of VCR-style functions, but doesn't need the tape. "I think the PVR functionality is key to selling people on the Combogox," says Glenn Ward, BeU Canada'svice-president of comergent technologies."Just introducing a box with DT H ( d irect to home)/Internet would be much Jess attractive.

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ment, and plug in your cable TV inputs, telephone, TV connections, and even Internet appliances. Triple Play routes signals to ag of them. "The Triple Play server works across the existing pipes of your PC, TV, and telephone," explains Michael Lee, Rogers' vice-president and general manager of interactive services."It's ag about no new wires." It's also about home networking, which is where the Triple Play outshines the ComboBox. With the server housed in the base-

pany. But if you' re a cable TV subscriber, be aware that choosing the ComboBox will require you to sign up for both Bell Expressvu (with the attendant dish antenna) and Bell Sympatico. In reverse, if you' re a Bell Expressvu or Sympatico subscriber (or both), you' ll have to sign up for cable TV and cable Internet access to make your Triple Play work The third factor to consider is capability. ComboBox has a PVR; Triple Play does not (at least not yct; Lee says it could be upgraded to include one in future). Meanwhile, Triple Play is designed to port MP3 tiles directly t o y ou r s tereo; (knnboBox is not. Then there's network reliability. Based on this writer's expericncw, Sympatico High Speed DSI. is very stable and reliable. Meanwhile, RogersOHome is improving thanks to system upgrades; with any luck, th«problems that dogged its network are largely a thing of the past. This said, it would be wise to revisit this issue closer to your purchase date. A good p lace t o g e t us e r f e edback o n R ogersOHome's progress is a t t h e Rogers@Home Users' Association Web site (wwwlhua.org).

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their chances of missing tmffic signals by chattingon the phone while they drive. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, also found that the

deleterious effect of mobile phones on the roadwas the same even when test subjects used hands-free devices.

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is publishing the study's findings in the current issue of itsInjury Insights newsletter. The researchers, working on a larger project that will be summedup in a future issue of Psychofogicof Science. enlisted 64 undergraduate students who were randomly

assigned to oneof four groups — radio listeners, audio-book listeners, handheld cell phone chatters, and hands-free phone users. The test subjects manned a joystick with a thumb-pressed "brake" and were asked to

respond to simulated traffic lights on a computer screen. Those talking with passengers or listening to radio or audio books showed almost

no degradation in their performance, the researchers reported. However,although the number ofmissed

signals waslow evenfor cell-phone users, it was double that of a control group that facedno distractions. In addition. the researchers said, cell

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vehicles." In astatement issued in response to the Univer sity of Utah fi ndings,the head of a

didn' t want the cell-phone safety debate to let off the hook other sources of driver distraction.

cefi -phone indusby trade group said education— not new laws— is needed to increase driver safety. "Thewimlessindusby haslong held that

"In all these discussions, fm con cerned thatthe focus on technology is overriding

educationisthe key to addressing the issue of driver distraction," said Tom Wheeler, president and chief executiveofficer of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Associ ation (CTIA). "Any activity a driver engagesin,besides the task ofdriving,has the potential to distract." "We must remind drivers that their primary responsibility is to drive safely and we musteducate them on how to recognize

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the fact that many crashes can be attributed to traditional distractions and not cell phones,"Moffat said in a prepared statement. "The fact is that actions such as

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phoneusers were often slower to respond to the signalsthatthey did not miss.

What'smore,the study, conducted using simulated driving conditions, found that ceU phones appear to cause more distraction firr a driver than listening to radio or an audiobook, or having a conversation

with a passenger. "Thisstudy adds new datatotheongoing national debate on driver distractions and

their causes," Alan McMillan, president of the Nati onal Safety Council (NSC, at www.nscorg), said it a prepared statement. "It underscores the importance of reiterating that a driver's primary obligation is to operate his or her motor vehicle safety." The NCS, a private U.s. non-pmfit outlit,

Because drivers using hands-free ceU phones performed just as poorly, the researchers wrote: "Our data suggest that legislative initiatives that restrict handhelddevices but permit hands-free devices are not likely to reduce interference from the phone conversation, because the interference is, in this case, due to central attenti onal processes."

"We suggest that the cellularphone use disrupts performance by diverting attention to an engaging cognitive context other than the one immediately associated with driving," they wrote. The NSCs McMillan said the industry

Motorolaconnectskeyboard to phone Motorola (wwwmotorob.ca) has released a keyboard to enhance the functionality of its i85s and i50sx

Web-enabled phones. The lightweight portable keyboard, called the Motorola igoard, is the size of

standard taptop keyboard. Designed and manufactured by Think Outside

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cooperative agreement to offer policy guidance to developing nations through the UnitedNations DevelopmentProgram. In July, Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology (COT) and Intemews,a Brusseis-based Internews nonprofit, formed GIPI as a way to help developing countries enact policies that narrow the "digital divide," a phenomenon characterized by the limited access to communications technologies among the worid's poorer citizens. GIPIhas announced thatit hassigned a memorandumof understanding with the UN Development Program, a global development project with offices in more than 100 countries. CDT deputy director Jim Dempsey said

theagreement lends GIPI a huge measure of cmdibNity in the eyesofothernations. "Thismeans that GIPI can avoid being seen as another U.S.-based organization

promoting American values. but rather as one that comes in partnership with a truly inter nationalbody," Dempsey said. In that regard,the group hopes to edu-

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troi s and the domain name system. The upstart coalition has hired 10 fulltime "country c oordinators" — mostly lawyers — who are familiar with the laws and languages of the countries in which theyare stationed. The group receives funding from a number of high-tech companies, including AOL Time Warner and Microsoft, as well as the

Soros Foundati on and the Markle Foundati on, many of the same organizations that have funded the multination Digital Opportunities Task Force, or "DOT Force" for short. In June, the DOT Force released the results of a 12-month study, which acknowledgedthat at least a third of the world' s population never has even made a

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theInternet user. Although the consultation document saysthat "claims fordamages cannot be directed against the provider for any form of hability," and that "the provider

cannot be subject to prosecution in a criminal case," the proposed (egislation "does not exclude the possibigty of an action for injunctive relief.' Peter Sommer, an IT security analyst and risk expert, and a fello'w of the London School of Economics, said the government has stated ISPS are n' ot liable under the proposed legislation,

unless they trave'been put orr notice to that'effect. "Some ISPs are concerned tiiat the wording of the proposed legislation is not clear enough," he said. "We're getting back to the issue of whether an ISP"ts responsibie'for the actionsof a subscriber with regard to

libel and files of a pornographic'nature,'". he added. Sommer said that his interpretation of the proposed legishtion is that there is still plenty of time to,clarify how the proposals will be interpreted before the

consuitation period ends "Since we have u'ritil November to get issues like these sorted out, the situa-, tion is a long way from being a fait

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Nielsen/NetRatings' second quarter Giobal Internet Trends Report shows an increase of 30 million people online since the first quarter of 2001, reaching a projected 459

million people globauy. ThereportmeasuresInternetpopulations of30 nations in North America, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, and Latin America. The firm claims it now measures 93 percent

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gling at the moment is there are opportunities," Tmvyn Rhall, managing director of A.C. Nielsen International Research,told Newsbytes."A lotdepends on the marketing. The Internet is still growing around the world, it is still

goingto dri ve up demand forthese types ofdevices." PC ownership fi gures for the U.s. and Japan were not

According to the latest quarterly global trendsreport,the U.S.and Canada lost groundtothe restoftheworld.Thecornbined region comprises 40percent of the onlin epopulation now,comparedto41 percent last quarter.

available in the report. Another discovery in the survey is that, for the first time,

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Europe and the Middle East-Africa region maintained similar numbers from the first quarter, accounting for 27 percent of the worid's Internet popo(ation. However, the Asia/PaciTic Rim madeslightgains,totaling 22 percentofthe Internet's audience, (up from 20 percent last quarter), while Latin Americaremains almost unchanged atfourpercent. In anotherfinding, the reportindicatesthatthe highest

ratesofcomputerownership in the home are in some ofthe smallestdeveloped countries.About 65 percentofhomes in SouthKorea,Sweden, and Austmlia contain at leastone PC, the report indicates. Meanwhile, some Western European markets fall weli behindthose numbers.In Germany, 48 percent of homes

haveat least one PC,while in the U.K.the number is 46 percent. France follows with only 34 percent. "A messagethere forthe PC guys who are maliy strug-

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Eastand Africa,where 33 percentofpeople accessthe Web outside their own houses, and in the Asia-Pacific nations, where the figure is 23 percent.

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on theInternet. Rhall suggests that the real gmwth in online population in future surveys will be seen in Asia. "Europe's catching up," Rhall said. "But Asia has India,

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Load times On higher spec machines these would be much faster, but on a lower spec machine load time is a good indication of how bloated the software is. This is far from a scientific test, but gives you an idea of how long, comparatively, you'B have to wait to start browsing. I ran each browser three times, then worked out the average. Please note that I decided not to go so far as tenths of a second. Also, the time is nat just for loading, it reflects how long it takesbefore you can do anything constructive in the browser.

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The winner: Netscape Navigator. Opera is the clear loser here, taking almost twice as long as the other browsers. It would appear the developers need to put some serious work into the rendering engine as the performance was absolutely horrendous. taking almost four times as long as Netscape. It's also interesting to see that Skipstone and Galeon, both based on the Mozilla rendering engine, were faster than Mozilla itself. Skipstone was a little flaky. On the 6rst anempt to open the 6le it locked up, but acted as if it was opening the flie. I had no choice but to klfl the dient and try again after a few minutes.

Ease ofuse In this category. I will carry out two simple configuration tasks: turning off image loading, as well as turning JavaScript off and on. Opera: To turn images off and on, there is a button at the bottom of each browser window. To turn JavaScript off you have

The final verditt It was a close call, but of the browsers tried, Galeon appears to be the best choice. Its not the fastest loading, it doesn't render pages quicker than the other

browsers. nor does it look very nice. The fact is though, of the browsers tried, it offers what I feel is the best trade off between features and performance. Opera is OK. It's my current browser of choice, but one area not covered in my tests is the fact that Opera, unlike the other browsers, uses its own proprietary format for bookmarks, which means that if I want to move to another browser, I will have a tough time importing my list of I'avourites. Mozilla has improved dramatically since I last tried it a year or so ago. It looks lovely, but is slow. Given that Galeon and Skipstone use the Mozilla rendering engine, it would seem that the choice of interface for Mozilla, while pleasing,istoo slow. Netscape was surprisingly quick to load and render pages, but it just doesn't perform that great when browsing. Plus its instabiTity is widely known. Netscape also

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in an overwhelming majority of cases. However, the new study released in late August by Internet law expert Michael Geist says the methods used to select the arbitrators who rule on UDRP caseshave had a dramatic impact on who wins and who loses.

Organization (WIPO), whose Arbitration and Mediation Center has handled 58 percent of ICANN's UDRP caseload, rules in favour of the trademark holders 82,2 percent of the time. The U.S.-based National Arbitration

name holder) exercises an option to have three panelists, the complainant selects one, the respondent selects one, and the service provider assigns the third, often with suggestions kom both sides.

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Geist said acloseexamination ofdecisionsmade by NAFpaneli stsshowsthat...thebusiest panelistshaveabove-average recordsoff finding in favourof trademarkholders.

remaining cases—34 percent in all — and renders decisions favourable to' the com-

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cent of cases between them. with complainants winning 63.4 percent of the time at EResolution and 59.1 percent at CPR. Geist said it's not surprising that the

and Numbers (ICANN) to help sort out conflicts over the rights to wordsusedin

trackrecords ofWIPO and NAF attract the more UDRP business, since. under

.corn, .net and .org domains, hasseen rulings in nearly 3,400 disputes involving more than 6,000 addresses. Geist and five students at the University of Ottawa Law School,where he teaches, examined all UDRP cases decided as of

ICANN rules, it's the trademark holder Sing the complaint who gets to choose the dispute resolution provider. But Geist said his analysis also suggests that when staff at WIPO and NAF are solely responsible for choosing the individual arbitrators who will hear their cases, trademark holders are even more likely to win. The study points out that an arbitrator (known as a panelist under the UDRP) is selected by a service provider such as WIPO or NAF alone when the complainant (the trademark holder) requests

The UDRP,originally established bythe

July 7. Their study confirms suspicions that the two organizations whose arbitrators write the lion's share of decisions are also most likely to rule in favour of the trademark holders—usually larger companies—who instigate the complaints. The study, called Fair.corn? An Examination of the Allegations o

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just one panelist. When the complainant or the respondent (the current domain-

Geist said that in the lower-cost singlepanelist cases—more than 90 percent of all cases— complainants win 82.3 percent of the time across all providers, and 85.4 percent of the time with NAF, and 84.4 percent of the time with WIPO.

However. when three panelists are on the job, complaints have won just 60.3 percent of the time, the study says. At WIPO, complainants are winning just 64 percent of the time under three panelists, while at NAF that number is even lower, 51.9 percent What's more. Geist said, a close examination of decisions made by NAF panelists shows that just six individuals were responsible for 53 percent of that organi-

Meanwhile, Geist said. some NAF arbi-

trators who are widely seen as "respondent-friendly" have yet to be assigned to even one lone-panelist case. The study showed that the busiestarbitrator at NAP is James Cannondy, who has found in favour of complainants in 95.7 percent of the 140 cases in which he was the only panelist. That's six wins for respondents,

Carolyn MarksJohnson haspresided as sole panelist on 106 cases, finding in favour of the complainants in all but three The third, fourth and fikh-busiest NAP arbitrators —James Buchele, R alph Yachnin and Harold Kalina — also are

complainant-kiendly more than 90 percent of the time. On the other end of the scale, Geist said, are WIPO-stabled arbitrators such as G. Gervaise Davis —known for a lengthy battle against the animal rights group

PETA onbehalf of an individual who held the PETA.org domain — and Milton Mueller, a Syracuse University professor who wrote a UDRP critique titled Rough Justice. Neither Davis or Mueller have ever been assigned by WIPO to work as a sole panelist, but have been chosen 20 times by respondents—in WIPO cases and in cases decided by other providers, such as NAF — to serve on three-member pands.

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ond date format in the list, enable the Update Automatically checkbox and click OK. This inserts a Date field but this time the date is probably formatted a Un(e differently. You' ll see the format specified in the field code itself when you display it (Alt + F9). Many of the items on the Insert menu are actually Word field codes. You can also insert a Word field code if you choose Insert, Field, then select the field code from the list. To try this, choose Insert, Field, then from the Categories list choose Date and Time, and from the Field Names list choose Date. Now click Options and choose the General Switches tab. Here are the available options

To see a field code at work, press Alt + Shift + D to insert a Date field in your document. This will allow you to see the current date or the Date field code. You can switch between the two by pressing Alt + F9 (this is a toggle shortcut key and switches between displaying aa the field codes in a document and displaying their results). The field code will look something like: (DATEI@ "dd-MMM-yy")

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Strings in Java By JacquesSnrveyer tring manipulations are important to every programming language, but especially so for Java. Because Java has become the language of the Internet, it is now used for assembling and disassembling IP and other communication protocol packets; parsing HTTP, FTP, HTML, XML tags, etc. ln general, doing elaborate String manipulations is inevitably a large chunk of Java applications. So getting to know the Java String manipulation capabilities is important. And for a variety of reasons, Strings are one of the most idiosyncratic

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days across a row or down a column and name this range Holidays. A function like

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The EOMONTH function returnsthe last day ofthe month. It's syntax is date (the date to measure from), and months (a positive or negative value representing months ahead or prior to the date). So, the last day of this month will always be: =EOMONTH(TOD AYO,O)

Pain-free looknps Lookupsaren'tthe easiest Excelfunctions to create.Ifyou need one, tiy the LookUp WizardAdd-in.Choose Tools,Add-ins,then select the Wizard. Now choose Tools, Wizard, and LookUp,then step through the Wizard to create the lookup function.

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Insert, Table, then set the number of columns to two and the number of rows to six and dick OK. Drag the dividing line between the dialogue, t yp e th i s: columns to the left so that « I I . ~ r a e6tfl au I NnM euo (Gick hereandtype dte the left column will become li addreisj. Click OK. If 6eld ~ ". ' anno) a narmw ticket stub and the Fttns [c ' codes are set to display right column the ticket itself. Sate: 24-Jd-81 results you' ll see an nina Drag the bottom border of marked [Gick hereand Ape the table down till it sits just wuntnnt the address). Before you test ns inside the bottom margin of tins. save the file, then the page (use the vertical canted niih aWent8dd cede,aiknn teen te edcuy a Regsin adeutaent click and test it. You' ll see ruler to see where the margin t he Beld code text disappear as it is ment) as shaded on the screen so they en ds). Select the tableby clicking insideit replaced by the text you type. stand out, you can do this by choosing a n dchoosing Table, Select, Table, then Using Click Here 6elds in your tem- Tools, Options, View, then &om the Field Ta ble, AutoFit, and Distribute Rows

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creating a template for others to use, you can insert a Click Here block with some explanatory text to indicate what data should be inserted at that point. When the user has read the information and they click the block, their text replaces the

you to indude explanatory text inside the markers to help users understand what is required at specified points in a document. If you want to show the Click Here Raids (and any other Selds in the docu-

like you can simply type them inside a set of curly brackets, this isn't the case. You must use Word's shortcut key combination Contml + F9 to insert a set of Beld

code markers, then you can type your field code inside thesemarkers. To create a date Se)d code, press Contml + F9 then type DATE(@ mlrN(d.W". Move away fmm the code and, if the date doesn't appear, select the entire code and press F9 (this shortcut key updates the selected Geld).

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If your numbers aren't updating, don' t worry. When you' ve finished copying, select the entire document by choosing Edit. Select All, andpress F9 to update all the 6eld codes.

RightMick selecfionhox The final use we have for Word's field codes is a selection list you can create to allow your user to insert text from a list that you' veset up for them. It's a neat tool that uses Word's AutoText field and it is fairly simple to create. Choose Insert, Field, and from the Categories list select Links and references and from the Field names list choose Autotextlist. Inthe text box af'ter the word Autotextlist type the word "staN"(include double quotes). Click Options, choose the Field Specific Switches tab, choose theis switches, and cli«k Add to Field. In the text area below, after the is entry. type staNist"inside quotes (this is a style name, which we' ll set up shortly). Now, to set the screen tip so it prompts the user, choose the tt switch and click Add to Field. In the text area below. after the tt entry, type"Rightclick snd selects person from the list" inside quotes and click OK twice. Your field code should look like this: AUTOTE NTLIST"slaW' its 'stsfgisf(t "Right dickaad

select apersonfrom theI< To create the list of names, start a new line in your document and type each name, one per line. pressing Enter between each one. Select the list of names and, in the Style box on the Formatting toolbar,type stsNist as the new style name and pressEnter. Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar so you display the paragraphmarkers in the document and, without selecting the paragraph marker, select the first person's name and choose Insert, AutoText, New, then click OK (or

simply pressAlt + F3). Repeat this and add an AutoText entry for each person in your list. You can now remove the names from the do«ument leaving just the Beld code in place. Save

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your document. To test the 6eld code, hold your mouse over it and wait until the screen tip appears displaying the Help text you typed following the it switch. Now right«lick and you' ll see the list of names appear. Choose a name from the list and it will appear in place of the word Staff in the document. Now that you have the list of names, you can create the dropdown list at any time in the future by simply inserting the ield code in any new document.If you f plan to use this list regularly you can create the field code itself as an AutoText entry by creating it, selecting it, and choosing Insert. AutoText, then New. Type a name for the entry (Staff is a good choice) and click OK.Now you can create the field code at any time by typing Stag

Cunririverf frmapure 99 unitof measureto another.Forexample; to convert32 degrees Fah' renheitto its Ceisim equivalent, use this function Konven(32,"F","C). There are plenty of conversions it can help with. Look in Help to see what «onversioris it will per. form and how to specify each unit of

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I Thesecondlargest value Use 'lARGE to extract the nth largest value from a list. Using MRCE(A2A2002)

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W hen was thatprinted? Add an entry into a cell on the worksheet to show the date and time it was printed usinga combination ofthe NOW and TEXT functions. For example: ="Printed: '&TEXT(NOWp, "ddd, dd-mmm-Yryy hh:mm")

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