Your Technology

By M.M. Buechner and Anita Hamilton

Move Over, Mario

Nintendo is aiming to strike a blow at archrival Sony with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The puzzle-solving adventure game is the first to take full advantage of the superior graphics engine in Nintendo's 64-bit machine--an edge Sony's PlayStation countered with a wider selection of titles. Zelda, the fifth in a wildly popular series that left off in 1992, is expected to sell 2.5 million copies in its first six weeks out.

Bowie Hits Web Radio

You shouldn't need a $2,000 computer to listen to the radio, but that hasn't kept millions of people from tuning in to more than 1,500 stations on the Web. Now JAMTV/Rolling Stone Network is offering 12 channels of rock and hip-hop (at rsradio.com and plans to feature celebrity DJ David Bowie in early 1999. Listeners can rate songs, order a CD and read ads while singing along.

Intel's Answer to the iMac

Despite protests to the contrary, the Aztec "concept" computer Intel showed off last week is strikingly similar to Apple's iMac: it's small and colorful, the trippy case is sealed shut and there's no floppy. Intel hopes the stylish design will lure buyers put off by the drab, hulking PCs sold now. The chipmaker won't actually make the machine, but is prodding PC vendors to do so by late next year.

--By M.M. Buechner and Anita Hamilton