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...collapsed. RESIGNED. DOUGLAS ("PETE") PETERSON, 65, United States ambassador to Vietnam, fueling speculation that he plans to run for Florida Governor against Jeb Bush; in Hanoi. Peterson engineered a U.S.- Vietnam trade deal, which is awaiting the Bush Administration's submission to Congress for approval. A former air force pilot and prisoner of war in Hanoi, Peterson is expected to leave July 15. RETIRED. GORDON MOORE, 72, Intel Corp. founder and articulator of "Moore's Law," a prediction that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every year; in Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving...
This is how it goes with technology. Every invention is accompanied by passionate claims for its sensational applications. What follows is an inevitable period of adjustment: How do I actually use this thing, anyway? A year or so ago, my wife gave me a Palm Pilot for my birthday. Not knowing what to do with it, I put it in the charger. After two months, and with visibly hurt feelings, she finally asked me about it: "I think it's probably charged by now," she said. Ha, ha. I guiltily forced myself to use it. As it turned...
...upcoming sixth-generation MA will appeal to "prosumers," the professionals who embraced the first Palm handhelds. "Those guys will show the way for the rest of the consumers," he says. Newman doesn't know this, but he's talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than $1,500 and - as cool as I felt at that Fairfax mall - doesn't make me look like a Borg...
...beginning of the year, everyone in town - in homes, businesses and schools - has been linked to the Internet with a broadband connection. Overnight, this Norwegian outpost has become part of the worldwide Digital Village. "I was looking for a town in the middle of nowhere to serve as a pilot for broadband testing," says Jostein Eck, marketing manager for the Norwegian telecommunications firm Nera, as he gestures toward the snow-capped cliffs. "We see it as a model for communities outside urban areas...
...away. "This is a way of putting someone with more experience into the operating room," says Gardiner. A surgeon could even be in several places at once, watching a bank of monitors showing operations all over the world and being a "telementor" for the less-experienced surgeons. "When a pilot wants to learn how to fly a 747, he doesn't just climb into the cockpit and watch the other pilot and eventually take control," says Bill Colman, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, who has developed a simple simulation for knee-replacement...