Word: styluses
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...less clogged. En route, Maggs is a flurry of wireless connectivity. He chats on his Motorola cell phone and answers e-mail on his Internet-enabled Palm. If he likes a song he hears on the radio, he can order it on Amazon with a few taps of his stylus. And if he decides he'll stop off at an Internet start-up in San Francisco's SoMa (South of Market) district, he doesn't need a map. His car, equipped with a global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver on its dashboard, gives him spoken, block-by-block directions...
...Palm Portable keyboard, a $99 add-on that shipped at the same time. The full-size keyboard--one of two versions will fit any Palm--cleverly folds up into a package that's the same pocket size as the computer itself. It finally allows me to stow that plastic stylus and type like a man. In fact, I pecked out most of this column on the 6:24 Long Island Rail Road train home, easily balancing Palm and keyboard in my lap. And I only occasionally elbowed the sumo wrestler squished in next...
They adopted the name Transformis LLC to build legitimacy for their product, which they named Stylus. The "company's" headquarters was the students' dorm rooms; its employees consisted of the three of them and a few summer interns...
...they were still shocked when an existing company, eXcelon, offered to buy Stylus and hire them full time...
While they were reluctant to give up the independence that went along with owning their own company, they realized that by selling Stylus, they would avoid the challenges of hiring more programmers and developing an XML server...