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...heavy debt load, the chances of long-term survival fade. With plenty of cash and a sensible strategy, the odds are better. That's why Majcher likes Gateway, an unpopular view among some analysts. Its stock is trading 95% off its peak, after a series of missteps. Majcher expects PC sales to pick up eventually. With zero debt and $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet, Gateway is an unlikely candidate for bankruptcy...
...they are also going to face a lot more competition in the handset market, predicts T-Mobile's Jones. We'll spare you the technical details, but the point about GPRS is that it makes handsets, in terms of receiving data, less like phones and more like computers. "PC players, PDA players, games makers - all these guys suddenly have the same underlying technology," says Jones. Already, low-cost Asian manufacturers are getting in on high-end fare, like color screens. For the operators, the question is whether the market can grow fast enough to get the data (as opposed...
...When you’re using a program like Pine or Eudora, your personal computer does much of the work, and Harvard’s systems just forward mail to your PC. With Webmail, on the other hand, the servers have a great deal more to do in processing and handling messages,” he said...
...multimedia service launched in Europe last month is hoping to show that the convergence of TV and the Web can counter this unhappy trend. Lots of different media players - software summoned by conventional Web browsers - enable you to play sound or video clips embedded in Web pages on the PC. But RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass for Europe goes beyond other services. It is a one-stop shop for video and audio links to news, sports, reality shows and music clips from a variety of content providers, including the BBC, CNN, MTV and Britain's Channel 4. In one window on your...
LOOK MA, NO PC! Until now, adding new music to your MP3 player meant plugging the device into your computer and transferring songs off the hard drive. But next-generation audio players like the Digisette DUO-DX E-Cassette ($189) can record songs directly from a stereo system without computer software--or, for that matter, a computer. Just pop the DUO-DX into a stereo tape deck, hit the record button and automatically convert CDs, tapes or radio tunes into MP3 files...