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...category. "Not everyone is keen on the idea of thumbing his way through life," says Shiv Bakhshi, a mobile-device expert at IDC, a Massachusetts research company. An early review from eWeek derided the 1.75-lb., $1,999 FlipStart as "the three C's: cool, clunky and costly," while Infoworld called it "flat out unusable for work." Using it is a lot like handling a laptop with a shrunken screen and keyboard; it's fine for a few minutes, though you'll feel cramped working for a longer stretch. But there are strengths too. FlipStart has a handy mini outer...
Stewart Alsop is editorial director of InfoWorld, a weekly for computer professionals published in San Mateo, California...
...similar problem in the 1960s when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is both a supplier and a rival for IBM, puts it more delicately. "I don't think it's clear where IBM will be in three...
Barbara Gerk, who writes a regular column on user groups for the weekly magazine InfoWorld, believes that organizations like FOG will be around for years. When a computer has been orphaned, she says, "sometimes there's nowhere else to turn...
...sound. Publishers are increasingly receptive to computer-related books, and they are paying especially high premiums for critiques of the programs that turn computers into word processors, financial analyzers, list managers, electronic communicators, music synthesizers and video-game machines. Harper & Row has advanced $600,000 to the editors of InfoWorld, a weekly computer magazine, for a six-volume series of software and hardware reviews, and Simon & Schuster paid the same amount for a ten-volume series by the staff of PC World, a monthly magazine devoted to the IBM Personal Computer. Now major investors from outside the computer industry...
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