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...months since its Visor line hit the shelves. The colorful, inexpensive devices were the first with expansion slots that allow users to add anything from a digital camera to an MP3 player--in effect to customize their PDAs. Co-founders Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins created the original PalmPilot before leaving Palm to start Handspring...
...retinue of aides. His war room is a half-furnished Dutch Colonial in the New York suburbs; his lieutenant, a former White House valet named Oscar who keeps Clinton supplied with diet Coke while the ex-President dials through the numbers he has entered on his new, imperfectly mastered PalmPilot, calling to justify himself to his friends. Clinton's red-faced rages over the Rich scandal have familiar themes: "setups," overzealous prosecutors, unfair legal cases that never should have gone to indictment. What is hard to figure out is whether he is playing out his reasons for pardoning a fugitive...
...Internet will accelerate the phenomenon. The browser page and the LCD screen on your cell phone or your PalmPilot are still contested territories, allowing new relationships among the different kinds of content that appear there. The Pampers website provides parenting information and advice--and, presumably, not the kind that the Pampers people wouldn't want you to see. In a less obvious kind of relationship, marketing execs can enter chat rooms under assumed names and praise their company's product, service or stock: that's just advertising masquerading as conversation. And more directly, consumers are excited about an emerging technology...
Danny Cheng didn't graduate from an elite overseas university or acquire information-technology training--and a PalmPilot full of contacts--in Silicon Valley. Instead, Cheng, who is 33, fits the mold of an old-fashioned Asian entrepreneur: he worked his way up from humble Hong Kong beginnings. "My family was poor," says Cheng. "At the beginning of each month, we had to worry about...
...Nashville time), and the candidate stays in touch throughout the day, largely through Eskew. Late at night, Eskew, Brazile and campaign chairman Tony Coelho often get a final call, in which Gore downloads to them the notes he has made to himself throughout the day on his PalmPilot. (Some of his circle have begun to secretly wish the electronic gizmo would just break...