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...BILL GATES is worth more than $30 billion, thanks to his 12.3% stake in a resurgent Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the desktop on 90% of the world's PCs. Gates' empire extends to Internet access (MSN), television (MSNBC and a stake in cable giant Comcast), computer games (Xbox) and even philanthropy (the $24 billion Gates Foundation). Gates, 46, was slow to recognize the importance of the Internet. But with his ambitious .NET initiative--and diminished pressure from antitrust regulators--the world's richest man may end up dominating a whole new realm: cyberspace...
LOCATION, LOCATION It's a great idea: when you get lost in the woods, your cell phone tells you--and your rescuers--exactly where you are. The FCC now requires carriers to offer a phone that doubles as an emergency locator beacon, and Sprint PCS is the first wireless service to sell one. Its GPS-equipped SPH-N300 ($150) will go live next week in Rhode Island. By the end of 2002, all Sprint phones will have GPS capability...
...Pulling off this trick requires an unholy amount of computer power. In every Segway there are 10 microprocessors cranking out three PCs' worth of juice. Also a cluster of aviation-grade gyros, an accelerometer, a bevy of sensors, two batteries and software so sophisticated it puts Microsoft to shame. If Kamen gets irked when the IBOT is called a wheelchair, imagine his pique when--if--the Segway is called a scooter...
...doesn't make them stupider.") And three grand may strike many others as an awful lot to pay for something they've managed so far to live happily without. John Doerr, who helped bankroll Compaq in the infant days of the personal-computer industry, points out that the first PCs cost $3,000 to $5,000. The analogy is worth pondering. The brave souls who bought those early PCs were willing to cough up big bucks not simply to own computers that were small and powerful but also to be part of a kind of revolutionary vanguard. Will consumers today...
...many years that it's become a running joke in the tech press. Finally last week, at the computer industry's big annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, the famous Tablet became more than just talk. Nine major manufacturers--including Toshiba, NEC and Compaq--unveiled Tablet PCs that they're about to bring to market. Each will sell for roughly the price of a laptop, and all will run Windows XP Tablet PC edition and a handwriting program called Journal. Microsoft promises both programs will be finished by the second half...