Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back there." The place she dreaded was sometimes in the living room of her tiny cottage apartment in Coral Gables, Florida. Or it was on the tiled floor at the foot of her bed. It was anywhere, really, that the 23-year-old writer could sprawl with her laptop computer, reach a telephone jack and plug into the Internet...
Each working day, a great many millions of viewers, both national and international, tune in to view the trial of O.J. Simpson. Harvard Law School has become, like it or not, a de facto participant in this affair. Via the laptop computer of Robert Shapiro, Simpson's lead defense attorney, the Constitutional expertise of Alan Dershowitz is made available on a moment-to-moment, blow-by-blow basis...
President Clinton says that House Speaker Newt Gingrich should have stuck to his guns on a plan to give each poor child in the nation a laptop computer. "I don't think that's a bad idea at all," Clinton told a group of 50 college reporters in Washington today. Gingrich set the idea aside in the face of objections that the program would be too costly. Said the president: "I think that if we had enough resources to teach every poor child in this country how to interact with the whole world of information that's available...
...Japanese firms are on the inside track with such specialized technologies as flat-panel displays--the screens of laptop computers--and other components, but big names are on the sidelines or tagging along in joint ventures with American partners. In crucial areas such as telecommunications, software and online services, Japan is barely in view. ``The multimedia markets in America are mostly sewn up by American companies,'' says John Ratliff, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, ``so it makes the domestic market critical for the Japanese...
...Chiat/Day, which announced plans in January to merge with TBWA International, was abrupt: just six months to transform the workplace from conventional to virtual. Now, employees who choose to go to the office on any given day stop at a ``concierge's desk'' in the lobby to pick up laptop computers and portable phones, which can be programmed with any employee's extension. The workers then head for any one of a dozen or so living room-like settings in a large, red-carpeted open area, plug into nearby modem jacks and get cracking. For the occasional meetings of working...