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...computer, received an electronic-mail message, sent a fax or carried a cellular phone. But as any well-equipped information worker can testify, these devices have been getting smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous. Why couldn't they all be squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout stream? Given the rapid advances in semiconductors, cellular communications and battery-power management, this dream...
...buzz of boardrooms, power lunches and anxious phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold...
...cellular-phone controversy could put a crimp in the industry's plans for growth. Motorola wants to build more powerful phones that can bounce their signals off low-flying satellites. Apple and AT&T plan to connect pocket phones, laptop computers and electronic notepads through a "wireless world" of microwaves. But before consumers buy into a pervasive network of cellular devices, they might well demand some answers about the one that is already in place...
...Telemundo Spanish- language network, was after a human-interest story. They got a horror show instead. In North Lauderdale, Florida, Emilio Nunez confronted his ex-wife Maritza at their daughter's gravesite, blaming her for the girl's suicide. As ! the camera rolled, Nunez pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot Maritza 12 times...
Such honor-bound people typically pay more for help than their tax-dodging neighbors, and their workers pocket less money. For example, a family that pays a nanny $250 a week must add $15.50 for Social Security taxes. The worker would likewise pay $15.50, plus $3.62 in Medicare taxes, not to mention federal and state income taxes. "It's very expensive to be on the books," says a New York City mother who does not pay the Social Security taxes. "I already pay $1,200 a month in child care. How can I pay more...