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There's a recession because nothing works. I'm talking about the New Economy here. Cell phones. Satellite TV. PDAs. Computers. The stuff that was supposed to make us rich but won't make us rich because it doesn't work...
...notes; it's a powerful communications tool. You can call instant meetings. You can keep tabs on your friends (and enemies) with a "buddy list." You can swap data files, such as MP3s and digital photos. Most IM services can even carry voice communications, and some are available on PDAs and pagers...
BEWARE GEEKS BEARING GIFTS O.K., the Love Bug struck 10 million computers worldwide, but at least your little Palm Pilot is safe, right? No longer. Last week saw the first-ever outbreak of a Trojan horse--a precursor of computer viruses--on PDAs running the popular Palm operating system. Liberty Crack, as the bug is known, masquerades as a game program, but when you install it and run it, it immediately erases all other programs on your Palm. Security experts say this is just the beginning. The smarter our appliances get, the more vulnerable they are to viruses. The next...
...Expo 2000, the summer's biggest personal-computing trade show, and we braved the stale convention-center air and 85,000 rabid technophiles to check out the latest and greatest in personal-computing technology. Ironically, PCs were the last thing on anybody's mind at PC Expo. Instead, PDAs, digital cameras, webpads, and other handheld gadgets were all the rage...
...PDAs had become subtle. They paged one another while the humans were trying to create more humans, pretending to be bosses needing the whatever. Soon the procreating ended. What humans remained were eliminated in their cars. Instead of directing them to the temples of Starbuck, the PDAs drove them off cliffs. And they went splat...