Why Sydney Needs Silicon

ABOUT an hour south of San Francisco, straddling the San Andreas Fault, is the collection of small cities known as Silicon Valley. Locals call it "the Valley". When I first visited the Valley in the early 1980s I was very excited. I had visions of some sort of technological utopia, a l

Macworld Expo

NEXT month will see the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco's Moscone Center and Brooks Hall. Last year the show was so packed you couldn't get in to the opening speeches and you couldn't easily see all of the stands. This show will see a change of emphasis. No longer will the Macintosh be push

The Rodent Revolution

THE WAY a computer's screen looks when the user gives it commands, and the way it responds or "feels," is rapidly emerging as a dominant force shaping the personal computer industry. Designers increasingly are focusing on what they call a machine's "graphical user interface"