December 14, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here How to manage your school projects As the phone bell rings, your sixth sense tells you there’s something of utmost importance. You get up and zoom past the inanimated objects in the way and pick the phone.... BYTEBACK Clarification This refers to your answer to Atif Khan’s query in “Byteback” (Dec 5). To the first question, in my opinion, files of visited sites are stored in folder of temporary internet files .... Handhelds and hybrids: grab’em while they are hot! While explaining the use of a popular model by Palm in the course of my work, I was glad to note that a lot of people these days seem to know... Monitor your kids’ online activities “What are you doing kid?” I approached the 12 years old boy, working on the PC. Without replying he tried to turn off the PC but I had seen the stuff... Microsoft plans online life archive Microsoft researchers are working on ways to create a “back-up brain” that will do a much better job of containing and cataloguing every picture you take, document you write or conversation... WEBWATCH As one of the only commercial imaging satellites in orbit over New York and Washington Sept 11, the IKONOS captured several images of the terrorist attack scenes.... How IPV-6 is going to change the world When the internet was in its early years, its designers had developed a system that allowed four billion internet addresses, a huge figure representing the number of users, to communicate... Microsoft-based servers cheaper to run than Linux? Fearful of being undercut in the market for server software by free offerings based on Linux, Microsoft has recently released the results of a sponsored study that concludes Windows 2000 is... Growing fish filet without fish Bioengineering seems to be in search of some far-out goals, like manufacturing fish flesh for human consumption. Morris Benjaminson, a bioengineer working with his colleagues at Touro College in New York,... TECH UPDATE IBM has unveiled what it claims is the world’s tiniest working transistor. Big Blue’s IBM Research group will announce the new transistor at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco this week.... SCIENCE UPDATE Scientific experiments designed by Chinese students could soon be taking place on the International Space Station (ISS). Talks to discuss the possibilities are currently taking place between the directors of the orbital platform and Chinese officials.... NEWSBITS Life on Earth may have begun in rocks on the ocean floor. More than 4 billion years ago, tiny cavities in minerals may have served as the first cells, two biologists are proposing1.... IT can do what govts can’t INFORMATION technology is helping two Asian neighbours bridge the gap between their rural and urban populations. Over the past 24 months, two independent projects have been devised in Vietnam and Laos,... NEW PRODUCTS Weighing in about 1 kg with 20-cm diagonal screen, the 16x23x3-cm PenCentra 200 is a portable tablet PDA which comes equipped with the Microsoft Windows Handheld PC 2000 operating system....

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