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We outfit a picturesque room in a Tuscan-style California home with the newest technology to create a dream office California's Napa Valley is one of the World's Premiere sources of […]

HOC RATING 1 2 3 4 5 6 OUR LATEST LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP IS WITH the Novatel OmniSky Wireless Modem ($299; 800-860-5767, www.omnisky.com), which brings the Internet to your Palm V […]

What's all the excitement about wireless Internet technology? Data transmission on wireless application protocol (WAP) phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) is so slow it can barely fill out one-line […]

The Longer I'm around PCs, the Less interested I am in taking them apart. Gone are the days when a happy weekend was one spent sitting in a sea of […]

Candor isn't the most popular mode of communication in the computer industry--everybody's always so upbeat about the latest technology and the newest start-up that it's hard to cut through the […]

Every time I Look at Handspring's Palm OS-compatible Visor PDA and then compare it to my Palm III, I just don't get it. Sure, the Visor is cheaper, comes in […]

All I wanted for Christmas was--you guessed it--a digital camera. Actually, I've always liked the concept, but I'd been waiting for years for the technology to yield pictures as good […]

There's more to building a smart networked house than stuffing the walls with wires MY WIFE AND I JUST LOVE HOUSES. WE LOVE TO BUY them, fix them up, and […]

About seven or eight years ago, I was involved in a project at MIT's Media Lab, a place where some of the best computer scientists in the world conjure up […]

I wasn't surprised when the PR rep from Corex called to say a new version of the company's nifty CardScan business card scanner was on the way--it was about due, […]

Okay, I give up! Uncle! Let go, already! I'll go with the industry standard! For once in my life I thought I'd break my usual habit of working within standards--i.e., […]

Just after I told you about installing SDSL at my house (in last month's issue), at least three Internet techie friends warned me about 'DSL pirates' who hack the Web […]

Some people just won't be satisfied--myself included. Recently, for instance, a reader wrote to share his displeasure with Dell because his new notebook's active-matrix screen had a bad pixel. Just […]

Lately, we've devoted lots of pages to home networking, including an in-depth feature story in this issue. And we expect to keep on covering the technology in the months to […]

Describes an office within a Napa Valley, California-based home, which was outfitted with computer technology. Owners of the office; Description of the office design; Details on individual pieces of office equipment to be found there; Cost of specific pieces of equipment.

Evaluates the Novatel OmniSky Wireless Modem, which delivers the Internet to a Palm V handheld computer from any place where one can use a cellular telephone.

Focuses on the benefits from the use of Universal Serial Bus in computers. Stabilization of the computer environment.

Comments on the advancement of Internet industry in the United States. Impact of on-line business on author's career; Advantages of the Internet technology; International access through online services.

Details how the author ended up choosing Synchronous Digital Subscriber Line technology for high-speed Internet access. Author's experience in using DirecPC satellite access; Cable modem; Digital subscriber line.

Evaluates the Hewlett-Packard Jornada 420 color-screen palm-size personal computer.

Reports on the formation of a `pervasive computing' division by IBM. Significance of the move for computer users; Implications for the computer industry and the home office; Features of pervasive computing.

Focuses on the difficulty of installing software. Types of installation problems; Installation utilities as a fundamental concern for software developers; Author's experience with installing Intuit's TurboTax 98 software.

Focuses on home computer networking. Benefits of having a home network; Sharing of information and Internet connection; Other uses of a home network.

Compares Apple Computer Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. in their business strategy in the United States. Apple's leadership in the personal computer revolution; Netscape's launch of the World Wide Web; Netscape's urging of US Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation into rival Microsoft; Sale of Netscape to America Online and Sun Microsystems.

Focuses on variations of Microsoft Corp.'s computer operating system, Windows CE. Substantial differences in how versions of Windows CE work.

Evaluates the NEC MobilePro 750C notebook computer from NEC. Configuration; Estimated street price; Installed bundled software; Pros and cons; Pros and cons.

Explains why `Home Office Computing' magazine prefers the Microsoft Windows over the Apple Macintosh platform. Mission of the publication; Availability of more software applications and peripherals that are compatible with Windows than with Mac OS; Usefulness of Windows to home office workers.