Word: phoned
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Such smart machines were among the hottest items unveiled last week at the computer industry's vast Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Want a phone with a screen and pull-out keyboard that lets you surf the Internet? Samsung's Web Video Phone will hit stores in late February with a price somewhere south of $1,000. For those who'd like a touch-sensitive tablet that receives e-mail, news and weather, Global Converging Technologies will roll out its Cendis Net Display next summer for about $500. Philips' Ambi system, due out in February for $500, will turn...
While no one is predicting the demise of home PCs, smart appliances could soon overtake them as the preferred means for sending e-mail or accessing the Web. "You shouldn't need a $1,000 computer to listen to radio broadcasts or make phone calls over the Internet," says John Latta, president of the research firm 4th Wave of Alexandria, Va. PC-wary shoppers would heartily agree, of course. And the intelligent devices that are heading into stores could encourage even technophobes to get connected...
...built into its Windows operating system. Judge Jackson could then spell out what Microsoft can and can't do in the future. He could personally monitor Microsoft's behavior, much as Judge Harold Greene oversaw AT&T for more than a decade after the breakup of the phone company...
...each bigger than the one before, to pass unharmed. The fifth or sixth was bound to be a monster, she thought. But the trend ended with Buck 3. The guys got nothing either. No one seemed to mind, and there was much teasing of Karolyn for taking a cell phone up the mountain along with her Winchester...
...voice network has an important job, the General Accounting Office pointed out in a report released last week. It's designed "to enable commanders to discuss whether a ballistic-missile launch threatens North America and, if so, to determine the appropriate retaliatory response." But, like your first cell phone, the system is a bit clunky. The GAO says recent tests show that "the National Command Authorities and the chief military commanders would be unable to communicate by voice in a timely and intelligible manner...