Word: beeped
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...when you're in an airport, several companies make fancy motion-sensor alarms that beep distressingly if someone tries to walk off with your machine (for example, while you're in a phone booth). The winner here is the Defcon 3 ($129), a laptop case from Targus that has a motion alarm built in. As a Targus representative puts it, the Defcon 3 is "a sexy unit"; no less studly a geek than Harry Connick Jr. carries...
...ever even considered humming The Way We Were. She duetted with a videotaped Frank Sinatra on I've Got a Crush on You, bantered (albeit with aid from a TelePrompTer) with Shirley MacLaine about the Y2K virus, and dedicated a love song to husband James ("Double A-beep-beep-M-C-O") Brolin. In an emotional high point, Streisand related that someone recently sent her a love letter written by her father, whom she never knew, when he was a young man. And yes, that woman, Esther Grodin, 92, is here tonight! And yes, Streisand launched into Papa...
...used to surf the Web, and PDAs to develop telephonic capability. When the convergence is complete, the theory goes, we'll have a single device combining in one small, supersmart package the qualities of a PDA, cell phone and pager--allowing you to schedule, e-mail, call, beep and surf without missing a beep. That could happen, but don't count on it. Skeptics say the result would be neither fish nor fowl--awkward as a PDA and awkward as a phone. For now, it's probably best to choose a device based on what your primary need is. (After...