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...Legend's response to slowing PC demand on the mainland has followed the industry script: the company has decided to diversify. Among numerous initiatives: manufacture of palmtop PDAs; an expanding chain of more than 500 retail computer stores; a move into Internet services that includes a partnership with AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company); and contract manufacturing. In the future, Legend expects to generate substantial profits by providing I.T. services to Chinese corporations-up to 30% of the company's total profit by three years' time. Legend, through a joint venture with Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronic, has even agreed...
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...exchange digital data. Bluetooth, named for a Viking king (one of its original backers is Sweden's Ericsson) and supported by some 2,500 companies that constitute the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, is basically a substitute for all those cables you now use to link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips up to 30 ft. apart built on the new standard can exchange audio and data at a rate of 500 to 1,000 kilobytes every second--more than 10 times as fast as your dial-up modem...
...voice-activated phone and e-mail access. Plantronics' boom mike and earbud headphones ($29.95-$64.95) boast superior acoustic seals between your ear and the headphone. By April 2002, Plantronics promises that its Bluetooth M1000 ($149.95; pictured), a wireless earset, will let drivers operate compatible devices, from cell phones to PDAs, with voice alone...
...that hasn't paid off for Legend or its partners. The PC maker introduced China's first PDA based on Microsoft's Chinese Windows CE in May 1999. It has also promoted H-Open, a Chinese operating system it co-developed with a government think tank. But today, PDAs with Windows account for just 15% of Legend's sales, while buyers flock to low-cost devices running cheaper software. No outside developer or competitor has adopted H-Open. All this offers a sobering lesson for the multinationals that are cautiously entering the market. Earlier this year, Compaq introduced a Chinese...