Napster, hatched by a teenager, signals a new era of peer-to-peer computing--a Net that functions just fine without big expensive servers.

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"The Net is inspiring a serious push in Asian language computing, " says Bala Pillai, a Malaysian-born, Sydney-based Internet strategist.

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The implication is that Apple has a huge potential to spread its vision of this style of computing to a large swath of the Net.

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Along with millions of other out-of-date and unsecured PCs strung together by the Internet--what Corman calls "the leper colony"--those machines represent a combined mass of computing power responsible for most of the Net's spam e-mails, much of its click fraud, and the vicious "denial of service" attacks that can knock sites offline and even destroy online businesses altogether.

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All three combine to represent the logical future of personal computing: surfing, shopping and downloading the Net from your car, cell phone and TV set, and from portable Internet appliances.

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According to a team of experts from Brunel University's Department of Information Systems and Computing a radical new approach to marketing broadband is needed if fast net services are going to appeal to the half of the population yet to get connected.

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Net platform, which is its strategy for delivering software as services available over the Internet from any computing device.

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