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...Today, faced with having to spend billions more to upgrade their networks to handle heavy data traffic?and lacking evidence that consumers are willing to pay extra for whizzy videophones?those same companies are in a mad scramble to retrench as fast as they advanced. Saddled with debt, frightened by sinking stock prices and wary of technological delays, most carriers have postponed their 3G-investment plans and instead are settling for less costly upgrades of existing networks through technology known...
...point. Inputting data and operating the computer with a stylus instead of a keyboard and mouse only seems to make a simple task unnecessarily cumbersome, not to mention more expensive. Tablet PCs are selling for about $2,000, roughly a $400 premium over comparably equipped conventional laptops. For the extra cash, you do get the new Microsoft Journal program, which allows you to write and organize notes in a spiffy "digital-ink" format that replicates real writing. You can change colors, use a highlighter, doodle, even erase a word by scratching it out. Notes can be archived and searched...
...Will the extra versatility offered by tablet PCs get people excited enough to start buying computers again? It's doubtful. Tablets are too heavy and unwieldy to be used comfortably as notepads all day long. Not that you could. The TravelNote has a four-hour battery. That's fine for the class of potential business users of tablet PCs that Microsoft calls corridor warriors, Dilberts schlepping their tablets from meeting to meeting. But those of us who go on the road need to know our notepad isn't going to conk out after less than half a day away from...
...maligned Harvard placekicker Anders Blewett, whose missed extra point in the third quarter was the first and last of his career. Despite struggling mightily during his career on field goals, Blewett had made 59 consecutive point-after kicks. The wind blew what would have been No. 60 wide to the right...
...talked about it last night, with the weather report,” Murphy said, “and it was a foregone conclusion that if we got into this type of game plan, [Fitzpatrick] was going to be the guy because he gives you that extra option that you don’t have with a pro-style quarterback like Neil...