The tools and the technology for creating animation on the Web are available right now, but it takes an animator to bring artwork to life. Christopher Grotke is an owner and founder of MuseArts, Inc., an award-winning digital design company specializing in interactivity, animation, and databases for the Web. He has written for industry magazines such as Exhibit Builder and Computer Pictures. Rely on ColdFusion, the industry's leading Web application server. For the first time an e-mail virus can be activated without the need to open an attachment from a message.
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Showdown Microsoft announced that with the upcoming release of its Office 2000 software package, Microsoft Corp. will also make available the software online. The next day, Sun announced that the release of it's competing Web-based office software suite, StarOffice, would be delayed until the second half of 2000. At Comdex next week, ViA will demonstrate its version of a universal translator. The device interprets seven languages, including Mandarin Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Users can talk into the microphone in one language and it will come out through a speaker in the second language.