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It sounds heavenly. Get a recordable or rewritable compact-disc drive for your PC, and you'll never have to worry about storage capacity again. Plus you'll be able to make your...

The secret is out: Dogs make good exercise partners. Every so often I hear from someone contending that the best piece of fitness equipment they've ever encountered isn't some flashy...

Not long ago Microsoft announced that DOS is dead. With the eventual merger of Windows 98 and Windows NT in a unified 32-bit system, all traces of 16-bit DOS will...

When we talk about convenience foods, what images come to mind? For many it's cardboard boxes filled with cardboard flavors, where everything tastes the same and nothing distinguishes the macaroni...

The name is enough to make music lovers run screaming. Muzak! The dreaded, syrupy, bland "music" that comes at you from elevator speakers, supermarket aisles and the dentist's office. The...

Just before Friday's second anniversary of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, an industry group led by Boeing and Airbus said eliminating the problem that led to the blast would...

Brisk early sales of Windows 98 suggest there may be a number of new computers in homes and offices as users upgrade, which always raises the musical question: What do...

In 1989, a young British physicist named Tim Berners-Lee asked his lab for $80,000 to buy some equipment and hire a few programmers for a project he called the World...

Microsoft last week changed its delivery schedule for Windows NT 5.0 again, prompting a flurry of analyst commentaries and a momentary cooling of its hot stock price. The Redmond, Wash.,...

Once in a while, something changes for the better. Halibut is one of those happenings. Not so long ago, Alaska's halibut season was a one-day affair in the spring, followed...