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...worth reportedly shot up to $30 million--on paper. Then last spring, when Wall Street soured on dotcoms, DME fell on hard times, and investors scurried away. Dash weathered the storm, but DME was forced to lay off more than half its staff. A plan to sell $249 PCs, with free Internet access in New York and New Jersey through a subsidiary, Placesofcolor.com went ahead. But DME's hopes of providing urban-oriented content had to be put on hold...
...community-organization partners he has attracted. The National Urban League is promoting Placesofcolor.com at its technology centers, where people get computer training. AOL bought 3% of DME's shares with an option on 4 million more. In October, Dash signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to buy laptops and PCs. "He's blazing a trail," says Doug McGowan, general manager of e-services solutions at Hewlett-Packard. "If he's successful, others will follow in his footsteps...
Research firm InfoTrends in Boston estimates that more than 80 million people worldwide will be transmitting digital images on the go by 2004. While some will do this using cameras like the i700, others will use cell phones with built-in lenses or handheld PCs with camera attachments. Low-cost camera sensors can be added to a cell phone for as little as $30. In Japan, a cell phone released by J-Phone this fall includes a built-in digital camera that lets users snap low-resolution photos of themselves, then e-mail them to friends. In the U.S., people...
Someday consumers may be able to custom-select the features they want in their personal wireless device. Whether or not the i700 becomes a popular favorite like cell phones and handheld PCs, its release makes clear for the first time that the ability to send and receive images is an integral part of that future...
That's just the start. The next few years will begin the era of "pervasive computing," when the focus of digital software will migrate from desktop PCs linked to the Internet by phone wire to a plethora of newfangled, Web-ready products ranging from TVs and cell phones to dashboards and Palm Pilots. "You'll have the Internet in your pocket, anytime, anywhere," says Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft's v.p. of user-interface platforms, of tomorrow's wireless and handheld devices. Most of them will be too small to have a keyboard. "The only way you're ever going...