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with Sound Info By Sarita Agarwal
Techies need no introduction to Ziff Davis, publishers of PC Computing and innumerable other computer publications. http://www.zdnet.com is the gateway to all these periodicals. You can also sign up for "Anchordesk", a summary of computing news stories, delivered by E-mail to your in-box, thrice a week. Offering stiff competition to Ziff Davis (they claim they have more visitors), is C|net accessed at http://www.cnet.com , a humongous site for information about computers, the Internet, and digital technologies. The sites in C|net's network are among the most active online, and include http://www.news.com (lowdown on the computer industry); http://www.computers.com (information regarding computer hardware): http://www.builder.com (for builders of Web sites); and http://www.shareware.com (more programs than you will ever be able to check out). CMP Media is one of the three largest technology publishers in America. Most of their publications are business-to-business, aimed at builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Visit http:// www.techweb.com , for cartoons, horoscopes, astrological energy levels for your Online/Offline/Love life, live Net events and a searchable interface to their publications. Find out if the "Good Times" virus is for real at http://www.antivirus.com , the source for virus utilities, virus descriptions, virus FAQs and virus attack emergency instructions. Datawarehouses are large containers of data used to support decision-makers, who use the data as inputs to their OLAP, querying or data mining tools. Typically, the data comes from operational and production databases, but you can also use external informations like stock prices, demographical statistics etc. The use of Web info as input for a datawarehouse is known as "Web Farming". Dr. Richard Hackathorn, widely regarded as the father of this technique, has an extensive site on the subject, at http://www.bolder.com/ . The next big leap in usability will come with voice-recognition. Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis, http://www.belllabs.com/project/tts/voices.html , allows you to convert text into several spoken languages. As information technology becomes too important to be left to just the technologists, techies need to start getting interested in the strategic application of IT to meet business goals. CIO Online, http://www.cio/com/CIO , is a good place to start, while EBusiness, http://www.hp.com/Ebusiness/ , sponsored and hosted by Hewlett-Packard, conducts discussions on practical applications of computer and Internet technologies. Caffeinate your Web pages with Java applets accessed from http://javadomain.com and http://www.javascript-world.com ; CGI scripts from http://www.cgi-resources.com ; source code for Windows/Unix-compatible applications for Internet and intranet use at http://www.freecode.com/ ; or some PERL utilities from http://www.perl.com . TBTF--Tasty Bits From the Technology Front--has news of the bellwethers in computer and communications technology that will affect electronic commerce. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe" to tbtf-request@world.std.com . http://www.nbpacifica.com has a daily telecom and computer news update of what's happening in the Asia-Pacific region. After all those books for Dummies, its Tips for Dummies by e-mail: to sign up, visit http://www.dummiesdaily.com/ . PC World's tips-by e-mail service, Tipworld is at http://www.tipworld.com . The writer can be reached at sarita.agarwal@mailexcite.com |
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Headline: "Gartner Sees Y2K Misery in Asia". Spreading the gloom
was Gartner Group Asia Pacific chief guru Bob Hayward who predicted chaotic times as the
Millennium Bug bit deep into the Asia Pacific region, while the area's most talented
people were busy making fortunes fixing the problem in the US and Europe. Hayward thinks
that the problems that would embrace Japan owing to the Y2K issue would be so severe that
the resulting chaos could drag the rest of the world into recession by 2001. For details
on this dangerous bug, access year 2000 sites and informational databases via 
