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...PC sales wither and dotcoms disappear, handheld-computer makers are enjoying a rather solitary spring fling. Just look at the flurry of new-product announcements in the past few weeks. From Handspring's razor-thin Visor Edge to a new memory-packed Compaq iPaq, a major upgrade has been trumpeted by nearly every PDA maker. Here's why: last year nearly 10 million PDAs were sold worldwide, almost double the number for 1999, according to research firm Gartner Dataquest. By 2004, the firm anticipates that everyone from executives to hairdressers will buy some 33 million PDAs, generating nearly $8 billion...
...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...
...Europe Online started its mass consumer launch in November, and has so far gained only 20,000 users. At this point its viewers are primarily using a PC with a CD-ROM drive, a 2D graphics card, a sound card and a digital video-broadcasting card. A new portal will allow subscribers to customize the streaming video they receive over their PCs. Of course the company's target audience is much larger - the 80 million European satellite and cable TV households currently receiving television and audio via Astra's satellites. These potential customers will need set-top boxes built...
...goal to be beamed to fans on the move. Meanwhile, Palm's next generation of handhelds allows users to view and edit images taken with compatible digital cameras. These applications and others can be accessed by inserting Secure Digital Cards or MultiMediaCards into a slot in the Palm -no PC necessary. In addition to digital cameras, future add-ons include video recorders and global positioning systems. And Kodak is introducing a portable device that doubles as a digital camera and an MP3 player, evidently for adding a sound track to your pictures. If these product launches keep up, using every...
...success is that we're not trying to create the latest, greatest, coolest thing," says Pogo CEO Erick Hackenburg. "One hundred million Americans play cards every day; 50 million play bingo. We've just paid attention to what people do." So go ahead, squander your time on that pricey PC playing virtual cribbage until 3 o'clock in the morning. After all, you're hardly the only one hooked on silly sites...