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...concrete bungalow, Lenovo quickly grew into China's biggest computer company, commanding just over a quarter of the domestic market today. In 2001, IBM offered to sell its PC unit to Lenovo, but the Chinese firm wasn't interested. It instead launched new lines of handheld devices and corporate services that it thought would drive profits for a decade. Last year, however, those enterprises had a loss of $29 million. The company then reversed tactics and went down-market with "village computers" selling for $350 a pop. But that didn't work either?overall sales in the second quarter fell...
...Blackberry is so last year. The newest high-tech handheld is the Tablet PC. These “pocket PCs” have a number of interesting features, including the ability to take notes directly onto a thin screen. The Sony VAIO U-Series looks like a PDA but has the power of a PC. The full-fledged Windows operating system means that you can do anything on this device from word processing to movie watching. The fold-out keyboard, mobile AC adapter and ethernet adapter make this device appealing. This one-pound wonder will be released in time...
...used to think I was the only one who had trouble memorizing all the buttons on video-game controllers and figuring out which one to push when. Now I know better. How else to explain the success of EyeToy games for PlayStation 2? EyeToy games replace the handheld game pad with a video camera that translates your body movements into onscreen action. Since the first EyeToy game went on sale last year, Sony has sold more than 4 million units worldwide (including 1 million in the U.S.). To put that number into context, it is about as many units sold...
Roupas said yesterday afternoon that he was prepared for further weeks of campaign work in case the election results were disputed. An RNC-issued BlackBerry handheld was attached to his belt, ready to call him back into the political fray...
...other ways--and thank God, since sitcoms are in a years-long creative and ratings slump. Whereas most sitcoms are set in that familiar fake world of couches and canned laughter, Arrested Development looks real and spontaneous. It has no laugh track and is shot documentary style, in handheld digital video, with sober narration by Ron Howard (a partner in Imagine, the show's production company). Viewers often think the show is improvised (like HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm), though it's meticulously scripted...