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...hottest trends in tech this year has been the market acceptance of powerful electronic organizers such as 3Com's PalmPilot and handheld computers based on Microsoft's Windows CE. Throw out your stale DayTimer; the new wave of productivity tools allows you to synchronize (and, importantly, make copies of) daily schedules, phone numbers and memos...
GEOFOX-ONE: Geofox, based in Britain, came up with a neat idea: include a keyboard and touchpad. The handheld's 6.8-in. screen is bigger than traditionally tiny portable displays. Due out in November...
Those seeking the ultimate Mir encounter can even talk directly with the cosmonauts and one astronaut aboard. Using simple, handheld radios, licensed individuals can make contact with Mir by pointing the radio directly at the station...
...eMate was a perfect opportunity for Apple to salvage its tired old Newton handheld operating system, a surprisingly powerful technology for word processing and Web browsing. But Apple has made two mistakes: it never managed to make Newtons' handwriting recognition anything less than laughable, and it couldn't fit the OS into a box as small as 3Com's wildly successful PalmPilot...
...even subscribe to. Gary Sinise, in one of his best performances, portrays the four-term Governor and three-time presidential candidate's Faustian descent from liberal to conservative rabble-rouser as a human tragedy. And director John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz) uses all his old tricks (handheld cameras, black-and-white scenes, jarringly quick cuts and time jumps) along with some newer ones (slipping Sinise, Forrest Gump-style, into real TV footage) to keep the history immediate...