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General Motors, Dell and Samsung--one of the leading producers of the phones--are among the companies that have prohibited employees from taking cam phones into sensitive research and production facilities, to prevent corporate espionage. Schools are banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions and e-mailing them to others. Many courthouses ban the phones to prevent witness or juror intimidation. (At a superior court hearing in Los Angeles three months ago, a witness was photographed by a cam-phone user who threatened to post the photo on the Web.) Most gyms have...
...didn't get your fill of gadgets and gizmos over the holidays, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held last week in Las Vegas, was the place to be. There's always a contest over who has the largest plasma TV. This time around, Samsung has a 102-in. set but no plans to sell it in the U.S.; LG will sell its 71-incher for $75,000. There are also always plenty of exciting trends. Here are four of the most intriguing...
...longer just a sidearm for doting daddies, camcorders are branching out. SAMSUNG'S SC-X105L (available in March for $600) has a separate wide-angle lens that you can attach, by way of headband or armband, to your extremities. The camcorder itself stays safely tucked inside your jacket or carrying case while the remote lens captures all your adrenalized action. Another innovation: Sony's DCR-DVD403 DVD Handycam (out this spring for $1,000) brings richness to a home-video soundtrack by recording audio from five directions and encoding it automatically onto a DVD in genuine Dolby Digital 5.1 surround...
...download speeds of 300 to 500 kbps and often higher. The new VCAST service makes Verizon the first U.S. carrier to push 15-frames-per-sec. video and high- quality stereo music to the cell phone. LG'S VX8000 will support VCAST at launch, and three more phones, from Samsung, UTStarcom and Motorola, are expected. For $15 a month on top of a standard calling plan, customers can download an unlimited stream of files to the phones or pay extra for premium content. Highlights will include music videos, Doppler weather radar, 3-D games and video clips as much...
...insist are under protection of the bankruptcy court. But who to sue? Mike Lake, a spokesman for Yukos' Houston law firm Fulbright and Jaworski, said, "It's like following the bean under the walnut shell. You never know where it will wind up." - With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas Samsung's a no-Show Mobile phones rang a merry tune this Christmas - especially stylish varieties like NEC's "clamshell," Britain's top seller. Good looks and funky features helped South Korea's Samsung Electronics grab 13.8% of the global market in the third quarter of 2004, ousting Motorola...