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Such smart machines were among the hottest items unveiled last week at the computer industry's vast Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Want a phone with a screen and pull-out keyboard that lets you surf the Internet? Samsung's Web Video Phone will hit stores in late February with a price somewhere south of $1,000. For those who'd like a touch-sensitive tablet that receives e-mail, news and weather, Global Converging Technologies will roll out its Cendis Net Display next summer for about $500. Philips' Ambi system, due out in February for $500, will turn...
Home PCs could face new competition next year from inexpensive, tablet-style devices for surfing the Web and reading e-mail. At this week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Cyrix is unveiling a prototype of its 2.7-lb. WebPAD with a 10.4-in. color screen and a 200-MHz processor. Wireless technology requires a "base station" or computer to be nearby, and the keyboard is optional, but the chipmaker hopes to entice vendors to sell the device for about $500 by next summer...
Adelson made a fortune in the trade-show business, and he financed some of the Venetian's construction by selling Comdex, the world's biggest trade show, for $900 million. Although Las Vegas does plenty of convention business, Adelson wants to compete for the monster shows that now go to Chicago's McCormick Place or Orlando's Orange County Center, in Florida...
...world's most feared monopolist, your ruthless predations the subject of a Justice Department probe. So what do you do to get away from it all? Get a cool haircut and party down amongst your fellow geeks. At last week's Comdex, the computer industry's annual Las Vegas hoedown, Wild BILL GATES was feeling the groove at the Harley-Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique...
...Gerstner could be a key partner in shaping a future DVD format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis and the comdex computer shows, in a venture to start JSkyB, a 150-channel satellite broadcasting service in Japan...