Even as U.S. government prosecutors continue to berate Bill Gates for his alleged unsportsmanlike conduct toward Netscape, a new browser war threatens to make the old one look like an amateur boxing match. This time, the battleground is the hand-held market. And the battle lines are being drawn between Microsoft’s Windows CE and 3Com’s Palm OS platforms. To the victor goes a hand-held computing market that is estimated to be worth more than $4 billion within four years. Read the rest of this entry »