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...technology, 50 years ago, was all mega-technology. Big Blue and mainframes... Ma Bell had pieces of copper wire running from everybody's ear to everybody else's ear. It took 100 years to do it. It was big centralized power companies, nuclear power plants. Transmissions lines. Big, centralized phone companies.... And then look what happened. Communications is now point of use. You carry a cell phone. Computing - you carry a PC. I think in the next decade or two, as the rest of the developing world stands on the shoulders of what we've created over the last...
...home; its EasyShare printer, for example, lets you connect your camera straight to the printer. Kodak makes money not so much by selling printer hardware, but by selling the paper and ink cartridges, which carry higher profit margins than consumer-electronics goods. Companies also hope to persuade mobile-phone-camera users to print out their shots. "For the entry level, the mobile is taking more and more of the digital-camera market," says Kodak's Cohen Szulc. There is some silver lining for the industry. Vendors are looking to emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. And even...
Fourteen years after Princess Diana's good friend James Gilbey committed the lèse majesté of referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According...
...Click Send: online apps are ultraconvenient. But follow up by phone to be sure it went through
...many counterterrorism officials, the scale and depravity of the plot seem chilling enough to justify the drama. "Very seldom do things get to me," Chertoff told Congressman Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday night. "This one has really gotten to me." A British official says investigators believe the bombers planned waves of attacks. By blowing up planes over the Atlantic, they would make it nearly impossible to gather forensic evidence. Then after people returned to flying, the terrorists would strike again. That benign items--iPods and soda bottles, the stuff...