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Localization is the ability of a hand-held wireless to give you info geared specifically to where you happen to be. Some handhelds can do it now--by GPS or other technologies--but many more will be able to do it soon. Prompted by emergency-response concerns, the FCC is requiring all cellular carriers by late next year to be able to locate all their subscribers within...
...Parkway south from New York City and exit in the town of Pleasantville, after a few turns you'll find a squat, beige building with a sign outside that reads DARKCHILD STUDIOS. The immediate vicinity seems intensely, iconically suburban--there's even a crossing guard out front with a hand-held stop sign--but as it turns out, Pleasantville is a good deal funkier than its name might suggest...
Dede's research focuses on "new devices, tools, media and infrastructures...hand-held computers, computer simulations, virtual reality, the Web...to understand their strengths and limits for learning," Dede wrote in an e-mail message...
...year 2000 will bring the death of the cable. It's in the air: people are tired of having to plug things in. Look at Apple's iMac-friendly wireless AirPort hub, or the Palm VII, or the continuing development of the wireless standard known as BlueTooth, or hand-held Internet devices such as the RIM Pager. The technology is there. The desire is there. Plus, it's actually useful. MORE...
...world. In their sophomore outing, the Dardennes have made an art of stripping cinema down to its bare bones. There are no designed interiors--the entire film was shot using locations in the Dardennes' hometown of Seraing, Belgium--or any other ornaments. The photography is dominated by shaky hand-held camera-work, lighting is sparsely natural and casting is reduced to four principal actors. It is initially frustrating and somewhat trying to a North American audience, used as we are to seeing the glossy celluloid images associated with high production values. Here we get grainy and bleached images. Similarly...