Word: hitachis
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...could probably get used to the load. Luckily I won't have to. In a couple of months, Xybernaut will launch the MA-V, the next-generation wearable. In December it will release the first mass-market version, yet unnamed (MA-VI? I don't think so), made by Hitachi under license from Xybernaut. Product specs are a closely guarded secret, but it's a fair bet that the MA-V will be less bulky than the MA-IV, and the Japanese-made version a lot lighter...
Sony faces competition from Hitachi, which sells a similar device mainly for business use. And a few U.S. companies, like industrial giant Honeywell, have launched "Internet appliances" that offer Web access from anywhere in the home. But the airboard is unique in that it merges the Internet with conventional entertainment, linking home appliances - from the PC to the TV - into a single, seamless network. For consumers in over-gadgeted households, that might have immense appeal - or the airboard might be viewed as one more appliance that's neat but not needed...
...Internet, a remote with built-in keyboard, the ability to pause or replay live broadcasts, digital TV that records to a hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into set-top boxes to purchase music from the Internet...
...County alone. They include Draper Atlantic and Friedman Billings Ramsey. Fairfax County firms obtained $327 million in venture capital during the first quarter of 2000, well above the pace of almost $1 billion for all of 1999. Meanwhile, more than 150 foreign businesses, including giants like Cable & Wireless and Hitachi Data Systems, have parachuted into Fairfax County, and the Fairfax County government has established offices in London, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Says Alan Merten, president of George Mason University, the region's most tech-focused academic center: "The Washington region has become a global player...