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...Greater China. Preoccupied with tough times at home and hobbled by supply problems, U.S. PDA manufacturers have focused international efforts instead on affluent consumers in Europe and Japan. "When you first look at the China numbers, they are pretty dazzling," admits William Holtzman, international vice president for U.S. PDA maker Handspring. "But in China, it's the old story of fools dash...
...second-largest market in the world for handheld computers, according to market research outfit IDC. Last year, close to 1.5 million PDAs were sold, a number expected to double in 2001. Add in cheap but popular electronic organizers, and the number swells to around 4 million. The dominant maker, says IDC, is Hi-Tech Wealth, which has a 40% share. "It's a very significant market by any measure," says Dane Anderson, IDC's chief of regional computer research. "But so far, the local players benefit most...
...there not a danger of provoking an intensification of terror? In 1996, when Israel assassinated Hamas's top bomb-maker, known as "The Engineer," Hamas retaliated with was a furious spate of bombings that killed scores of Israelis...
...since Mattel re-released them. Demand in the U.S. for replicas of Transformers, among them the upstart Hot Rod ($45) and the diabolical pistol Megatron ($90-$110), has prompted importers to buy them off the shelves in Honshu and sell them to retail stores in U.S. malls. Takara, their maker, will be unleashing more in August, including Transformer F-15 Starscream and ambulance Ratchet. A new line of He-Man replicas is due to arrive in stores in October, and Hasbro is considering a direct U.S. release of Transformer replicas for next year. Who says superheroes don't live forever...
...Florida, New York, Washington and Indiana filed a class action against the industry and some retailers, hoping to force them to pay for sealing existing structures built with CCA and cleaning up contaminated sites. Such legal sword rattling may be having an effect. Last week PlayNation, a Georgia-based maker of playground equipment, announced that it will immediately switch to nonarsenic-based preservatives. According to several sources, the industry as a whole could make such a change at a cost of just $40,000 per treatment plant. Pine won't speculate on whether the industry will consider making the switch...