Tuesday, September 30th, 1997
Women area as interested in computers as men, and would play more games if there were more female-friendly plots, claims Brenda Laurel in a recently published study, conducted at UCLA and based on American females. The study attempts to break the generally held view that women deal with computers reluctantly and use them only as
Tuesday, September 16th, 1997
Something fishy has been going on with electronic commerce Web site for the past few weeks. I have been bombarded with complaints from the people who are having trouble completing purchases on retail sites that were once...
Tuesday, September 2nd, 1997
Imagine that you live in Hawaii. You spend most of the days surfing and sunbathing, and in the evening you work for a London-based Internet consultancy on the biggest Web project in town. Outrageous? Well, perhaps, but...
Monday, September 1st, 1997
Originally published by The Independent Together with the whole country I heard the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, with shock and disbelief. When the BBC gave the URL of the official condolences page...
Tuesday, August 19th, 1997
Some 300,000 jobs were created in the US last month, according to the US Department of Labour. Many were in computing, management and engineering. Often when an American IT company expands, the benefits are felt in Britain,...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 1997
Yes, the Dark Force is back in town, to bring a new level of atrocity to the browser wars. Darth Vader (Bill Gates to you and me) wheeled out the heavy intergalactic artillery for lest week’s launch...
Tuesday, July 8th, 1997
Do your own an electronic personal organizer? If you do, then you are one of a staggering 1.3 million gadget-oriented UK professionals who have gone from Eighties Filofax to Nineties Pilot or MessagePad. We are spending more...
Tuesday, June 24th, 1997
Summer is upon us, and with it hordes of family visitors from overseas. Inevitably, this means endless questions about the latest doings of the Royal Family, visits to Buckingham Palace and procurement of mugs with royal faces...
Tuesday, June 10th, 1997
Imagine that you live in Hawaii. You spend most of the days surfing and sunbathing, and in the evening you work for a London-based Internet consultancy on the biggest Web project in town. Outrageous? Well, perhaps, but...
Tuesday, May 27th, 1997
It’s official: the youth of today has finally disowned the book. A recent poll conducted by CNN and the National Science foundation found that 77per cent of American teenagers prefer to use Internet for school projects instead...
