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Earlier this decade, the concept of the "personal digital assistant" (PDA) was born out of a very '90s sense of frustration. PDAs were originally designed to be one step ahead of their owners: to be a literal assistant, taking your data and processing it for you to make better sense of your life...
Certain key shortcomings doomed the PDAs to failure. The handwriting recognition on these early models was atrocious, with Gary Trudeau lampooning in his "Doonesbury" strip the Newton's inability to recognize text. Secondly, devices like the Newton were too big and bulky to be of any use. Early PDAs were as big as a paperback novel and almost as heavy. They could be transported, but weren't truly portable in any sense of the word. They also required expensive add-ons to connect to desktop computers. At up to $1,000 a pop, these devices were no small investment...
...Although PDAs struggled in the early '90s, a second wave of industry leaders is preparing another assualt on your Coop schedule. And the fighters in this rematch are leaner, meaner and designed to work...
...paying attention to any event pushing a pig for a prize. National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Jane Alexander headed upstairs to the Cafritzes' bedroom to watch the show in peace (she won the pool). Carolyn Bessette, Kennedy's girlfriend, who has proved that she's unafraid of PDAS (public displays of affection and anger), pulled Kennedy into another room at one point for a conference. This created more talk than did the question of how a movie with a leading man in a skirt could win so many awards...
Converting to the virtual office can be costly, however. At the CKS Group, a Cupertino, California, advertising agency, about a quarter of the agency's 160 employees work elsewhere, using the cellular phones, pagers and PDAs (personal digital assistants) supplied by CKS to help them keep in touch. Not only does the firm pay half the purchase price for a staff member's home computer, but new technology is costing CKS an additional $10,000 to $15,000 per employee each year. CKS president Mark Kvammi estimates that technology expenditures amount to about $2 million every year. And the technology...