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...partial to batik shirts, seems to have ditched his old look wherever Levin left his Gulfstream. Besuited and betied, Case is also clearly bewitched by a vision of a world where consumers are constantly connected to a web of entertainment and information. It's a world, he says, where cell phones, televisions, computers, cars, maybe even refrigerators, will all be tapped into a data network that makes it as easy to talk to Singapore as to call your next-door neighbor. And AOL Time Warner, he begins to explain, will be the company that makes all that happen...
...come to this: you had a Baby Ruth for breakfast, you're operating on three hours' sleep, and you're sitting in a rented Hertz in the parking lot of a CVS drugstore waiting for your cell phone to ring. You're waiting for D'Angelo. You're not alone. Ever since the hip-hop/soul singer released his promising first album, Brown Sugar (1995), with its old-school crooning and new-school beats, fans, critics and impressed fellow musicians have been eagerly anticipating his follow-up. Even hip-hop folkie Beck--a guy who could give...
Dooo-di-dooo-di-dooo! Your cell phone--which for some reason is programmed with the most ridiculous-sounding ring in all of telecommunications--goes off. It's D'Angelo's publicist...
SICKLE SCREEN Some infants with sickle-cell anemia will go on to develop serious, life-threatening problems. But which ones? Now researchers think they have an objective way to make that determination: sick kids with very high white-blood-cell counts, low hemoglobin and swelling in their arms and legs are twice as likely to suffer severe complications by the time they're 10 years old. That means they're probably good candidates for new, but risky, experimental treatments like stem-cell transplants...
...PHONE HOME Now that musical rings and quick Web news updates are old hat for cell phones, manufacturers are scrambling to find new ways to make them interesting. The TV Phone, which goes on sale in Korea later this year and could hit the U.S. in 2001, uses a collapsible antenna to display the soaps, soccer games and sitcoms on its tiny, 1.8-in. color screen. The MP3 Phone, due out by year-end, will download and play digital songs. It connects to a PC via serial cable to download music into its embedded memory...