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Although cell phones, laptops and PDAs have made it immensely easier to do business, many users hate having to tote around all three devices. HANDSPRING, maker of the popular Visor handhelds, thinks these burdened business people are the perfect customers for its Treo communicator, which debuted last month. The palm-size phone and organizer also has wireless Web service and a little keyboard or writing area for e-mailing and text messaging. Handspring prices the Treo at $399 with a service plan...
...center of the company's new mobile focus is the KeyCase, a folding cloth keyboard and case that works with Palm Pilots (but not, for now, with other PDAs). The device looks modest, but some road warriors may end up using it in place of a laptop...
...slides into the KeyCase's patented cradle while it is lying flat. A spring and hooks, designed to work on all Palm models with a universal connector, attach the handheld to the keyboard. When the cradle is moved into typing position, it automatically turns the Palm on, and you're ready to type. "There is no need to take your notebook on the road now," says Denis Pavillard, Logitech's product-marketing manager. "You can just use your...
...CeBIT, Logitech will also launch a foldable hard-case keyboard for pdas, called the TypeAway, that will compete with those sold by TARGUS and PALM. "Targus is a great product," says De Luca. "We made a mistake not to be interested in it." But Logitech is betting that it can catch up with the KeyCase and the TypeAway, which is more useful for keying in longer files, folds to a thickness of half an inch and weighs 3.9 oz., significantly smaller and lighter than anything else on the market...
...Santa Monica, a beach town known for its movie stars, the sun shines almost every day, palm trees sway on the boulevards--and the groundwater is poisoned. All over town, ugly drilling rigs mounted on trucks are boring 300-foot holes to trace the plumes of a pollutant that has leaked from the underground tanks of gasoline stations. The culprit: methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an additive that makes gasoline burn cleaner but one the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified as a potential carcinogen. Half of Santa Monica's water supply is undrinkable--MTBE makes water taste like turpentine...