Word: pc
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...have spent the past few lonesome weeks collecting football games for Nintendo 64, the Sony PlayStation and the PC. (Mac users: Your sole choice is Playmaker Football, at $20 from Playmaker Software.) After fooling around with the titles that just came out for this season, I understand why football dominates the software-game charts: it has evolved into something complex enough to satisfy the most Nixonian of pigskin fans and yet is hugely entertaining for Sunday kibbitzers...
...analysts, will soar from 100 million handsets annually in 1997 to 360 million a year by 2002. Of that number, 15% to 20% are expected to be so-called smart phones that can handle data as well as voice traffic, a market that will rival today's volume of PC sales. "I foresee an absolutely huge future for the pretty amazing new stuff that's going to be added to the mobile phone," says Martin Heath, a telecommunications specialist for consultants KPMG in London. "There will be tremendous battles for who controls the value of this chain. Symbian...
...telephone to wire up 1 billion customers worldwide. Current estimates by mobile operators suggest the same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose aim has been to put a PC on every desk, told a symposium in February that "Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a wireless device you can carry around...
With his business under threat from Microsoft, Potter has cleverly realized that the mobile-phone companies would be as nervous about Bill Gates as he was. The history of the PC business showed that hardware companies were caught up in a cycle of steadily declining prices, while Microsoft and chipmaker Intel captured the lion's share of the profits. "I think there is a great deal of concern in many industries that the added value in their industries doesn't get taken away by Microsoft," Potter says...
First a warning: An alternative treatment for prostate cancer called PC-SPES-a potent mix of eight herbs, including saw palmetto and licorice--may have unwanted side effects. A report out last week finds that while the herbal alternative does lower levels of PSA (a marker for the cancer), it may be linked to breast tenderness, loss of libido and possibly blood clots. Now some guidance for men undergoing traditional care. Those who have a slow-growing cancer can survive for years with conservative treatment, like periodic monitoring or hormonal therapy. But men with more aggressive cancer seem to fare...