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...invested $60 million in Tellme, while Sprint PCS is pushing its new voice-activated dialing and is expected to launch a voice portal of its own later in the year. These services have an added benefit: with subscribers in search of the latest, greatest calling plan hopping around like credit-card customers, personalized features like voice dialing, e-mail and contact managers help people stay put. Says Mark Plakias, senior v.p. at the Kelsey Group: "By the time you've loaded up a voice-dialing system, you don't want to do it again...
...first I was intrigued by the Royal Vista's adorable fold-up keyboard and rock-bottom $60 price. Even better, the Vista was supposed to synchronize addresses, appointments and to-do lists with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular personal-information manager for PCs. But Vista's keyboard got a lot less cute when I actually had to type on it. Entering my mom's address and phone number took about 10 minutes because I kept accidentally hitting a key that erased everything...
...surfing Americans, i-mode may seem like a step backward. Their PCs can do and see a whole lot more than the i-mode-loving Japanese can find on their little phones. But i-mode isn't designed to compete with the desk-bound Web. "With a mobile phone, people don't have much time to read through a lot of data," says DoCoMo's Keiichi Enoki, one of i-mode's creators. "We thought people would want bursts of information while they are on the move...
...ketchup. It's still surprising that tech-savvy, gadget-happy Japan sat on the sidelines during the boisterous dotcom boom. (Remember that?) Even today, in Japan, the world's second largest economy, only 625,000 homes have high-speed Internet access, out of a population of 126 million people. PCs never caught on, in part because the first models were ugly and bulky and used keyboards the Japanese aren't comfortable with. "We're keypad people," says DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa...
...called Golden Horse. The software scans fingertips and then attempts to diagnose a person's health. Joo paid $1 million for the program, which he is marketing to herbal medicine shops that have computers. Samsung, meanwhile, paid $730,000 for five KCC programs, which it is loading onto its PCs. They include cooking software, a chess game and a reading program for children. "Their programmers don't have a lot of access to the outside world," says Samsung's Park, "but their fundamentals are very strong...