Frank Beacham

During Apple Computer's long dry spell, many video people stayed with their beloved Macintosh machines because Macs work better than their Windows counterparts.

In terms of pure technology, it's a mistake to view the mega-merger of America Online and Time Warner as simply a broadband cable play. This alliance is much, much bigger than that

When Janet Reno staged the armed raid to seize little Elian in the darkness of a Miami morning, it wasn't the television images that defined the event.

It was only a few years ago, during the frontier days of the Internet, when passionate arguments raged over the impact advertising might have on the network's future.

Tis the season of new personal computer operating systems. Apple's Mac OS X (Version 1.0) hit the market last month, while a final beta of Microsoft's Windows XP recently made it to the PC faithful.

As media outlets consolidate, diversity diminishes. Now, armed with a significant new court ruling, the pay television industries are poised to consolidate much further.

One of the neat things about the Internet is that people are constantly coming up with new things to do with it.

The big technology test came on the morning of Sept. 11. Terrorists had attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thousands of people were missing. Americans wanted to communicate.

Internet users are now spending more time concentrating on fewer Web sites. This means, as the novelty wears off and habits set in, the serendipity of random Web surfing is in decline.

Personal privacy violations on the Internet have become so rampant that even the most-unsophisticated users are quickly learning not to entrust their private data to nosy Web sites.

The news from January’s CES was like turning the clock back five years to that high-tech reality distortion field when world-changing ideas were a dime a dozen.