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Tech: 1 billion PCs; broadband competition...

updated 05:55 pm EDT, Mon July 1, 2002

 
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Evening tech news: The number of personal computers shipped in the last 25 years has reached 1 billion, according to a report by Gartner Dataquest, which also indicates units shipped could reach 2 billion by 2008; a consumer group said today that proposed U.S. government policies could harm competition in the broadband Internet market; Microsoft aims to attract Java developers to its .Net software strategy, with the final version of Visual J#.Net.


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    MSucks

    MS JAVA? Watch out Starbucks!

  1. DannyMac

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    FASTER, FASTER!!!

    I want broadband out where I live NOW (I'm from the country and I like it that way). The internet at the University of Kentucky spoiled me. I'm stuck with this 56k that connects at 28.8k! Satellite internet? Ummm NOPE. I'd have to sell three kidneys to buy the equipment alone!

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