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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, like most technological innovations, the World Wide Web comes with many pitfalls. The sheer size of the Web can make tracking down any piece of information a fairly time-consuming task. And when you realize that the majority of Web sites are full of information of little relevance, the prospects for finding anything appear to be fairly dismal...
Just a few Thanksgivings from now, your wall-size, wafer-thin television will be dashing off an e-mail to your oven. With the unavoidable Detroit Lions game just going into overtime and the gang filling up on corn chips, the urgent message is: Keep the turkey from drying...
Selections in the handheld market have blossomed as well. Last year the obvious choice for a fully functional pocket-size organizer was 3Com's PalmPilot. While this year's upgrade, the Palm III, is still going strong, buyers can now find comparable units from Casio, Everex and Philips that run Windows CE. The competition has brought great new features like wireless data transfer on the Palm III and a voice-memo feature on Casio's Cassiopeia. The research firm IDC predicts that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold...
...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...
...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...