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First prize for the contest is a Casio handheld game machine, while second- and third-prize winners will take home packs of blank CDRs...
...BACK IN TOWN What handheld computer has sold more than 100 million units in the past 11 years? The Palm? Wrong! It's Nintendo's Game Boy, beloved companion of air travelers and Pokemon addicts everywhere. On June 11, Nintendo will finally introduce the Game Boy Advance, which features 50% more battery life, a 50% larger screen and as much processing power as a Sony PlayStation...
...company also knows that to survive it has to broaden its appeal to platforms beyond desktop computers, especially in the rapidly growing market for handheld devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants. Because Opera is so compact the firm is touting it as the browser of choice for small Internet-enabled gadgets. Opera is now installed in handheld personal assistants made by Britain's Psion and in Ericsson's cordless Webscreen H610. Since the browser comes as part of the core software on these devices, the company gets paid by the manufacturer, not the user...
Like its drama-inflected ancestor Sports Night, The Job incorporates elements that would be trite on a plain-old drama, such as the shaky, handheld camera. But here they're starkly funny and McNeil an arresting (sorry) puzzle. He's also the sort of character who makes network execs pop Mylanta as he pops pills. So Leary and Tolan were surprised when ABC actively recruited them. "We said, 'You'll never buy it,'" recalls Leary. "'We're not going to change the language. We're not going to change the behavior.' And they said, 'Don't worry about it.'" Indeed...
...then something changed, and people began to realize, by the millions, that it wasn't really their fault that nothing worked. They came to see that Old Economy products like automobiles worked much better at their very worst than New Economy goods, such as handheld Internet devices, worked at their very best...