{"id":20,"date":"2001-10-11T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2001-10-11T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villapc.be\/?p=20"},"modified":"2001-10-11T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2001-10-11T07:49:44","slug":"villa-pc-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/2001\/10\/11\/villa-pc-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"manilaID_0000017\"><\/a><A href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/news\/0-1003-200-7480421.html?tag=pt.rss..feed.ne_7480421\">C-Net<\/A>: The rapid evolution of Windows Messenger underscores two basic challenges for Microsoft. One, Microsoft is under pressure to come out with an operating system with upgrades compelling enough to get people to upgrade their PCs. Second, and just as important, Microsoft&#8217;s dominance on the desktop is being challenged by AOL Time Warner and Yahoo. Their competing IM programs mean another brand sits on the desktop, a situation that sets off alarms in Redmond, Wash.<br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/ap\/20011009\/wl\/eu_biotech_foods_2.html\">AP<\/A>: Contradicting the prevailing sentiment in Europe against biotech crops, a report Tuesday from the European Union&#8217;s head office suggested they may even be safer than regular foods.<br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.computeruser.com\/news\/01\/10\/10\/news16.html\">ComputerUser<\/A>: A report just published says that broadband Internet adoption across Europe is starting to take off at last. &#8230; Currently, researchers found, the countries with the highest level of DSL household penetration include Sweden (4.6 percent), Denmark (3.9 percent), Belgium (3.9 percent) and Austria (3.3 percent).<\/P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,36145,00.html\">Fox News<\/A>: Bert Heyvaert, a piper from Belgium, said he would play at the American memorial in Ypres, site of a devastating battle in World War I.&nbsp;&#8220;My respects to the [New York] rescue workers and all those who have not given up hope in their wounded city,&#8221; he wrote in a message to the pipers&#8217; association. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be proud to honor all of you.&#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-Net: The rapid evolution of Windows Messenger underscores two basic challenges for Microsoft. One, Microsoft is under pressure to come out with an operating system with upgrades compelling enough to get people to upgrade their PCs. Second, and just as important, Microsoft&#8217;s dominance on the desktop is being challenged by AOL Time Warner and Yahoo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villapc.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}