Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they can't transmit stories back to their editors anyway. One writer in Yeltsin's press corps was reduced to dictating his story over the radiophone of a motorcade police car. Since most of the accompanying Soviet journalists were sympathetic to Yeltsin, coverage of his trip was highly favorable...
...year remains uncertain." The IBM empire is striking back. In a marketing effort unparalleled in its 80-year history, the company launched an all-out offensive to retain current markets and recapture lost turf. The past 11 months have brought virtually nonstop announcements of new products, including a laptop computer, a home computer and a line of midrange computers costing an average...
...stimulars are helping men with severe spinal-cord injuries to father children; penile implants are enabling men who cannot sustain an erection to make love. Wheelchairs that stand up make it possible for the disabled to greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice a way to communicate. Materials designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reduce the average weight of a crippled person's leg braces from...
...field that thrives on breakneck innovation, the personal-computer industry has not come up with a lot of fresh ideas of late. Since the introduction of the desktop computer in 1977, the laptop computer in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, there have been quite a few additional improvements but precious little that has been truly new and different. Progress, as they say in the business, has been evolutionary, not revolutionary...
...standing by in Cairo and Francoise DeMulder in Baghdad. Frey, a man of many skills, is doing double duty as a liaison with the military command and coping with the headaches of transmitting pictures. A high-tech air war could jam normal telecommunications and force reporters to switch from laptop computers to typewriters. Seven chemical-warfare protective outfits, purchased in London, are available for those who will be assigned to go into combat zones. "This is the first time I have ever asked anybody to go and cover a war," says a sober Stacks, who feels "a responsibility...