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Here's how it works: first you load your CDs, one at a time, into the CD player. It takes about five minutes to rip each disc and convert tracks into MP3s. Then each time you play a song, you can either mark it as a favorite (using the "+" button on the remote) or give it a thumbs-down (with the "--" button). The uMusic system stores your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using...
...earlier handhelds, the BlackBerry pushed e-mail right to the device, rather than merely alerting users that they had e-mail the device could fetch. It also let employees send and receive using their corporate addresses, just as if they were in the office. RIM's curved layout of button-like keys has also made thumb operation a breeze. "It's very difficult to get someone to use another device," says Gartner vice president Ken Dulaney...
...Google?s earliest features was a simple button beneath its search box that reads ?I?m feeling lucky.? The intention is for info-hungry masses to enter search terms, click on the ?lucky? button and, voila, land on precisely the web page that they always wanted but could never find. When Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google, this was their way of showing us just how good they could be - like two kids bouncing into their parent?s den to show off a new magic trick...
...That the button doesn't say ?Do you feel lucky?? (too Clint Eastwood) or ?You wanna get lucky?? (too seedy) also says something about the duo who met and perfected their invention as Stanford grad students. They chose optimistic, feel-good language - vague and disarming at first blush, but when the trick works, it?s as if those two kids in the den have just pulled off Houdini?s escape from a water torture cell...
Valeta Young, 81, a retiree from Lodi, Calif., suffers from congestive heart failure and requires almost constant monitoring. But she doesn't have to drive anywhere to get it. Twice a day she steps onto a special electronic scale, answers a few yes or no questions via push buttons on a small attached monitor and presses a button that sends the information to a nurse's station in San Antonio, Texas. "It's almost a direct link to my doctor," says Young, who describes herself as computer illiterate but says she has no problems using the equipment...