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...using a handheld cell phone. Nice idea, but it's had mixed results elsewhere. In Hong Kong, a maximum $257 penalty introduced in 2000 has done little to change bad habits; up to October, 5,035 fines were issued, compared to 3,818 for all of last year. In Japan, an $84 fine for car accidents caused by mobile phones has netted only 120 offenders a year. So police are reportedly planning stricter laws for 2004, to punish offenders on sight. In July, Italy increased fines to $83 and added a five-point deduction from an offender's license...
...onetime industry giant can hit restart?or at least pause?in an increasingly competitive video-game industry. Not only is Nintendo struggling to keep pace with its larger, better-funded rivals?Sony and Microsoft?in the console business, but its Game Boy division, Nintendo's previously unassailable monopoly in handheld games, is suddenly facing a host of formidable foes...
...least Iwata can still count on his steady handheld business, right? After all, Nintendo's Game Boy has become practically synonymous with portable gaming?and the bleeping scourge of every family road trip. But all those gaming boys and girls are growing up; Sony hopes to repeat its console success in handhelds by focusing on adult customers. The stakes for Nintendo are high, because Game Boy hardware and software now account for about 60% of the company's annual sales and a similar share of its profits. Sony recently announced plans to enter the handheld market next year with...
That's exactly what the employees at iAnywhere Solutions, a unit of Sybase headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, are trying to figure out. About 18 months ago the company, which makes software for handheld devices, plunged headlong into the wireless world by turning its entire campus into a giant wi-fi hot spot. Employees--mostly in marketing and product development--with wi-fi--enabled laptops (about half the 250 full-time staff at headquarters) can access the Web at lightning speed from anywhere in the building, no wires necessary...
...gave up on them. The Iraqi dictator was crazy for weapons, fascinated by every new invention--and as a result was easily conned by salesmen and officials offering the latest device. Saddam apparently had high hopes for a bogus product called red mercury, touted as an ingredient for a handheld nuclear device. Large quantities of the gelatinous red liquid were looted from Iraqi stores after the war and are now being offered on the black market...