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While it is entirely possible to send text messages using your cell phone, many Americans balk at typing them out on a tiny numeric keypad. AT&T Wireless's Ogo ($99, plus $17.99 a month) offers a solution. It has a wide keyboard, sharp screen and slim profile. You can send not only SMS text messages but also email and instant messages using AOL, MSN or Yahoo...
...corporate-event sponsorship than most companies. Its annual budget for such promotions runs to several million dollars, spent on such events as the ten-day New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival last spring, which featured 3,000 musicians, 300 music groups and nine stages, each with a Schlitz [ogo as a backdrop. Not so incidentally, 400,000 cups of Schlitz were sold. This year Schlitz foamed beyond local events and plunged into national rock-music promotions, including Fleetwood Mac's 30-city tour and the Who's performance in 40 places. Those cost Schlitz $1 million...
...Each OGO has two $300,000 tape recorders that store 86 million bits of information, transmit 64,000 bits a second. An OGO can send back twelve hours of stored information from 20 simultaneously operating instruments in only three minutes...
...project has suffered its share of setbacks. After 46 days in orbit, for example, OGO-3 developed a control-mechanism failure and has since operated at only 75% efficiency. But overall, the OGOs have been a resounding success. By week's end, OGO-4 was performing without a sign of trouble. At TRW's Redondo Beach, Calif., plant, scientists and engineers are testing OGO-5 and building OGO-6, both of which will be sent up next year. The entire program will cost about $150 million-mere pennies, considering the dragonflies' scientific achievements...