Column Archive

By BRUNO GIUSSANI

The EuroBytes index has now moved to https://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexeurobytes.html

February 24, 1998

European Study Paints a Chilling Portrait of Technology's Uses
A large telecommunications interception network operates within Europe and, according to a new study circulating on the Internet, "targets the telephone, fax and e-mail messages of private citizens, politicians, trade unionists and companies alike."

February 17, 1998

French Company Hopes to Make Its 3-D Tool a Web Standard
Cryo Interactive, a European videogame developer, is focusing on a new programming language called SCOL that, the company's founder says, will enable even beginners to create 3-D Web sites "with ease."

February 10, 1998

If a Thin Lady Sings, Are the Browser Wars Over?
For those tired of hearing about the usual players in the browser wars, there is a browser designed by a small Norwegian company that is both lean (less than 2 megabytes), powerful, highly customizable, and fast.

February 3, 1998

Online Holiday Sales Less Than Merry for Europe
In the coming weeks several European online merchants will release reports detailing how they tried to convince Europeans to spend some of their Christmas dollars in electronic shopping malls — and failed.

January 27, 1998

Governments Go Online By Fits and Starts
European politicians are just now discovering that the Internet poses a huge challenge to the state.

January 20, 1998

Digital Sharks Threaten Joystick Divers in New Exhibit
For the last two years, an engineer in Darmstadt, Germany, has been using several million dollars worth of computers and software programs to create one of the most spectacular virtual-reality applications to date: the Virtual Oceanarium.

January 13, 1998

Europe's Phone Deregulation Raises
Questions on Internet's Future
On January 1, most European countries opened up their telephone markets to competition, ending decades of state monopoly. The fallout for the Internet is now being weighed.

January 6, 1998

Is It Really Gutenberg All Over Again?
At conferences all over Europe in 1997, there was always a speaker who equated the digital revolution with the invention of movable type by the German engraver Johann Gutenberg more than five centuries ago.

---

EuroBytes Columns published in 1997.

---