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IOC
creates hurdles for Olympic Web sites
THE
first record to be broken at this year’s Olympics is unlikely to be
on the track or field. A vast audience logged on to Olympics.com on
Friday. The official Olympics site is likely to go down as the
recipient of the largest number of hits ever sustained by a single Web
site in one day, despite FBI-sanctioned warnings of hacker attacks.
These
fellows can make dinosaur move
by Sumesh Raizada
THOSE
who have seen movies like Jurassic Park, may have wondered how a
dinosaur that got extinct millions of years ago, can appear virtually
in motion or how could a mouse talk in Stuart Little. All this could
be made possible through computer
animation.
Men
at work in Silicon Valley
IT’S
a typical slice of daily life at the palm-fringed hub of the new
economy: a workplace, undoubtedly, but one where an unusual definition
of "work" holds sway. Engineers are chasing each other down
the hallways, firing soft-tipped darts though Nerf-guns. Their
programmer colleagues are busy playing table football, or hunched over
video games. And when real work begins, it is as likely to take the
form of a "bug bash" — where programmers stay in the
office long in the night until they have fixed a certain number of
glitches in the system — as it is a conventional meeting.
Mind
your own business at marketplace
AT
the end of 1998, two FT.com executives were having a drink at the bar
of the Pudong Shangri-La hotel in Shanghai, lamenting the difficulties
of doing business far from home. Almost two years later, Donal Smith
and Jonathan Schmidt are about to launch eCountries, an Internet
business designed to address those complaints.
On hardware
Branded computers
more cost effective than assembled ones
by Vipul Verma
Kids Chat
Physical challenge no
problem
Dr Tribune
Help for your computing problems
Learning Computers
Microsoft Office — an
overview
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Networking
to make the Net