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...Filofax got sucked into the vortex created by a cinema seat and my chronic forgetfulness, my Palm V has been my personal religion. Not only do I have every single piece of information important to my life stashed in there, I also have it regularly backed up on my PC for safekeeping. HotSyncing is so supremely simple - stick the Palm in its cradle, press a button, and you're done in less time than it takes to read this sentence - that I do it twice a day. God of cinema seats forbid, but should I ever leave this thing...
...thought. But what if I stuck the Palm in its cradle and both Palm and PC got fritzed? I know that static electricity can be a potential death blow for computers; that's why you're supposed to ground yourself by touching the metal casing before installing a new graphics card, sound card or internal drive. I also know it would have to be a huge long-shot for an electric current to somehow pass from your body to the Palm's casing, down the cradle cable and into the computer. It's not like this will affect Palm...
...doubt it's possible that some thousandth of a percent of users are affected. Just as I don't doubt my lottery number might come up, or that I might have touched enough laundered linens and walked on enough carpets to blow up my Palm and PC. In a universe where nothing from the speed of light on down is stable, not even a Palm Pilot can be relied upon with the kind of blind faith most users invest in it. Personally, I'll be handling my HotSyncs with kid gloves from...
...companies like Cisco became the largest customers for the EMS industry. Leading competitors like Flextronics and Sanmina, says Merrill Lynch analyst Jerry Labowitz, grew at a faster pace, pursuing diverse acquisitions while SCI was busy trying to add optics and networking companies--now suffering heavily from overcapacity--to its PC and cell-phone business...
...Winners NOR MALENA HASSAN Malaysian sets record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come...