Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show offered plenty of rivals for today's most popular information appliance--3Com's Palm III (previously called the PalmPilot), a $350 handheld digital organizer for storing appointments and addresses, jotting down quick memos and sending e-mail messages. Casio, Everex, Philips and Uniden all showed off their copycat devices running the Windows CE operating system...
...ergonomic design of the iMac is also faulty. The round mouse, while innovative, is uncomfortable. It does not fit in the palm of the user's hand and is therefore harder to control. The keyboard also has problems. The keys seem too crammed together, and the arrow keys are too small. Furthermore, the keyboard does not have all the keys of the more-standard extended keyboard. A user may adjust to these differences quickly and possibly even find them comfortable. However, most first-time users grumble about the unfortunate design...
Depending on the season, the Fanjuls can be found shooting game in Scotland, skiing in Switzerland or relaxing at their spectacular Casa de Campo. These 7,000 acres overlooking the sea have long been a favorite playground of the wealthy. But Palm Beach is still their real home, and Florida is still the heart of their financial empire. They now farm an estimated 180,000 acres of cane-producing land in the Everglades--43% of the total--making them one of the two-largest sugar growers in the state...
...Fanjul empire. Alfonso Fanjul served as co-chairman of Bill Clinton's Florida campaign in 1992. His brother Pepe was national vice chairman of finance for Bob Dole's presidential campaign in 1996 and was host to a $1,000-a-head fund raiser for Dole at his Palm Beach mansion. After Clinton's 1992 victory, Alfie was a member of the select group invited by the Clinton camp to attend the President-elect's "economic summit" in Little Rock...
Selections in the handheld market have blossomed as well. Last year the obvious choice for a fully functional pocket-size organizer was 3Com's PalmPilot. While this year's upgrade, the Palm III, is still going strong, buyers can now find comparable units from Casio, Everex and Philips that run Windows CE. The competition has brought great new features like wireless data transfer on the Palm III and a voice-memo feature on Casio's Cassiopeia. The research firm IDC predicts that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold...