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...seems so obvious now that it's amazing no one thought of it sooner: a computer that keeps track of thousands of phone numbers, addresses and calendar appointments, a to-do list and memos, yet is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. When Palm Computing first introduced its tiny Pilot two years ago, the gizmo did all that and more--and hit the jackpot. Sales zoomed to a million, and everyone from Al Gore to Robin Williams was packing one. At $299, the device was cheap (for a computer), hip and elegant. But the real secret...
This week Palm will introduce a third-generation device, the Palm III. It will offer more memory, an improved screen and a built-in infrared beam that owners can use to wirelessly squirt their business cards at each other. But the one feature it could really use is an anti-Microsoft heat shield, because the Redmond, Wash., software giant is turning up the temperature on Palm...
Anytime a small company like Palm proves that a market exists for a product, it is rewarded with big sales--and big trouble, in the form of hungry rivals. Microsoft's master plan is to control--or at least put Windows inside--every access point to information and entertainment, whether it's a desktop computer, telephone, TV or handheld device. That kind of thinking has put the company under intense scrutiny by the Department of Justice (see TECHNOLOGY...
...glad to see you are still batting 1.000 regarding any information concerning me. As usual your information stinks. I need a house and a nightclub in Palm Beach like you need a tumor. FRANK SINATRA Beverly Hills, Calif...
TIME reported: "Word appeared in the columns that Sinatra was about to buy a Palm Beach pad and a nightclub, too, so he could wage war with an established nightclub owner who had refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance...