As computer technology continues to evolve, it will soon be possible for an average PC to do things that until recently required the world’s largest supercomputers. Consider, for example, the

The “killer app” for the Internet has always been human-to-human communication. Although the Internet’s original designers thought they were creating an infrastructure that would be shared by expensive computers, email

Instant messaging (IM) is going global. It has already overtaken decades of development in telephony, email and the Web, and it has all the hallmarks of an IT market about