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First gadget out of the gate is the Pocket PC, set to launch next week and butt heads with the Palm Pilot family of Personal Digital Assistants. Windows-based PDAs have been technically superior for some time, but the Palm outsells them all because of a Filofax-like operating system so simple even executive V.P.s...
...message that we needed to improve our software," says Pocket PC group manager Phil Holden. His new device promises better handwriting recognition than the Palm, easier-to-read text, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a fully functional Web browser and instant access to e-mail, even for AOL users. Down the line, an experimental device called MiPad has made some promising breakthroughs in voice recognition. PDAs you talk to? Even the CEO might be able to handle that...
...success in its consumer-electronics adventures should ultimately ride on connectivity: the extent to which all these Windows-seeded devices are able to talk to each other and share data. Imagine the timesaving advantages in this technologically fragmented world if you're able to beam a number from your Pocket PC to your Windows cell phone, or use the synchronicity between your satellite dish and your X-box to play games over a broadband network. "Their Windows-ness could turn out to be a benefit," says Mundie. In other words, if Gates has his way, Microsofties won't just...
...relationships in her life. Goldin was a visiting professor at Harvard last spring, and although Sheng did not take her class, her presence left a lasting impression on his photographic approach. He shoots with a Yashica T4, a point-and-shoot camera small enough to fit into his shirt pocket. This small camera allows him to be as unobtrusive as possible so as not to affect the reality of the moments occurring in his quotidian affairs. His photography is about himself, his relationships and how he perceives them through the lens of a camera. His photographic obsession with his personal...
Freiser says a few large companies are able to pocket huge profits because they are industry leaders...