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...surf the Internet exposes the current limitations of wireless data transfer. The xda works on GSM and GPRS mobile networks; I tried it on a GPRS system in Hong Kong, and even though I was supposed to be able to get data at rates comparable with dial-up services, I found Web access frustratingly slow. Not only that, the Web doesn't have a lot of content that is optimized to fit the small screens of handheld devices...
Dimitri Kanevsky helps computers understand human speech, a surprising line of work for someone who has been deaf since age 3. The odds are good that if your computer can transcribe a voice or your cell phone knows which number to dial when you tell it to "Call Julie," Kanevsky, 50, is partly responsible. His algorithms are at work inside much of the software that helps translate human speech into the digital language that machines understand...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs--games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs - games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...
...mother's standards, Andrea De Cruz didn't need to lose weight. But show business imposes strict requirements on appearance, and when the dial on the Singaporean TV actress's bathroom scales spun to more than 48 kilos, De Cruz started taking a Chinese diet pill named Slim 10 that she purchased from a colleague. Two months later, De Cruz, 28, was near death, unconscious in a hospital in Singapore. Doctors at first were baffled. But they came to suspect that an ingredient in the diet drug had ravaged her liver, which had all but shut down...