Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size of a large mobile phone with a flip-top computer screen, capable of composing faxes, sending and reading e-mail and accessing the Internet. Alcatel, the French phone giant, is already marketing a phone called the One Touch Com, which has taken all the functions of a palm-size organizer, such as address book and scheduler, and installed them in a mobile handset small enough to slip in a shirt pocket...
...company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary...
...alliances to improve the usability of wireless devices. One of them, called the WAP Forum (for Wireless Application Protocol), is designing special browsers to bring Internet data to mobile phones, while a group named Bluetooth is trying to set a universal standard for radio communications between smart devices like palm computers and mobile phones. Interestingly, Microsoft has not joined either group...
...Brazilian immigrant appeared before the Cambridge License Commission last night in an attempt to recover the thousands that he paid to Miss Anna, formerly a Cambridge-based palm reader, over a two-year period...
Shortly after he arrived in Cambridge two-and-a-half years ago, the Brazilian man saw Miss Anna's advertisement and paid her $20 for a palm reading, according to William M. O'Brien, the man's attorney...