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...system being encouraged by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In Hong Kong 600 of the city's skyscrapers are already wired with fiber optics and rate as ``intelligent buildings.'' The colony's 6 million residents are so interconnected that the better restaurants forbid patrons to talk on their cellular telephones while eating...
...stuff as much information and as many communications tools as possible into a small package -- called a personal digital assistant, or PDA - - that will perform dozens of tasks for the user. More advanced versions, weighing less than 2 lbs., can operate off a regular phone line or cellular connection and send and receive faxes, voice mail or E-mail. They can be used to keep appointment schedules, expense ledgers, addresses and phone numbers, as well as large digitized documents...
...whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout in an apartment complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. And so there they stood last week, hunter and hunted, face to face for the first time. "Hello, Tsutomu," Mitnick said, with husky, spaghetti-western cool. "I respect your skills...
...that promise to create more jobs. When she does move against what she sees as monopolistic practices, a favored tactic has been to scare companies with the threat of lengthy suits. By huffing and puffing, she got AT&T to sign a consent decree promising to keep the McCaw Cellular phone company a separate subsidiary, which allowed McCaw customers to pick their own long-distance carriers. But when Bingaman has actually gone to court, the results have not been stellar. Two months ago, she suffered a humiliating defeat after suing General Electric on charges it conspired with DeBeers of South...
...American trade embargo, does business with Cuba: Israeli firms are second only to Mexican companies in textile investments. These days, the palm-lined patio at the elegant La Ferminia restaurant in suburban Flores is jammed with foreign businessmen power-lunching with government ministers and discreetly whispering into their cellular phones...