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This intense curiosity sparked a life-long interest in the whys and wherefores of computers and offered an alternative to a real life that was less than orderly. When his parents went through a divorce after a move to New York City, Mattel hand-held games like football and car racing and the popular memory-testing game "Simon" were outlets that let Bennahum "hide from the experience of seeing once-powerful adults falter." In his high school computer lab he explains how users there escaped to a virtual world free from, among other things, divorces, remarriages, and troubled siblings...
...important piece to the puzzle of Slam which cannot be overlooked is the superb craftsmanship of director Marc Levin. A veteran of documentaries, Levin employed a cinema verite style in this feature, utilizing non-actors and improvisation and filming over 90 percent of the movie with hand-held cameras. These directorial choices succeed in imbuing the film with a feeling of gritty realism, especially in the numerous jail sequences which were, justly, shot in Washington, D.C.'s correctional facility (as debatable a term as that is). Levin's choice of DJ Spooky's music for the soundtrack only intensifies...
...hand-held Donkey Kong game (Nintendo...
...painfully long time, people have been asking David Potter, chairman of British computer maker Psion, "When are you going to die?" It's nothing personal, only that Potter's company--the maker of sleek hand-held computers, with annual sales of just $235 million--is sitting astride a market now being targeted by Bill Gates and giant Microsoft Corp., plus a dozen of the world's leading computer-hardware manufacturers. The battle became so intense earlier this year that Potter was forced to issue a warning about reduced profits, and Psion's stock price took a beating...
...world of palmtop computing began only three years ago, when the company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry...