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Camera from Logitech isn't built for photography buffs, but it does have a few tricks the big dogs haven't yet learned. The QuickSend feature lets you tag pictures to be automatically sent over Logitech's own server, allowing anyone--including users with Web-based or proprietary e-mail systems like AOL, Yahoo or Hotmail--to send pics. This 2-megapixel point-and-shoot ($180 at logitech.com is also the first of its line to have a full-color LCD screen for previewing shots. And it doubles as a webcam, complete with microphone. Furthermore...
...facility in the Iraqi desert by using wristbands with RFID chips. By scanning the wristbands, medical personnel could access treatment and track patients in a central database. "In Iraq the real challenge was tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison in California became the nation's first such facility to monitor guards and inmates alike with TSI PRISM, a tracking technology using RFID wristbands that look like large diver's watches. The surveillance curtails violence...
...more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align the reader and the tag, but with RFID even old people and young children can use the system," says library-board senior development manager Wong Tack Wai. With costs down to 40¢ an item, libraries in Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Macau have adopted the island's patented system...
...height of the SARS epidemic, the city's oft stumbling tourism bureau was running an ad campaign with the unintentionally ironic tag line "Hong Kong: it will take your breath away." Not that there could have been anything that would have inspired tourism then. As overworked medical officials covered in chemical-warfare gear raced to the next hot spot, multinationals were evacuating staff, and international trade fairs were being rescheduled. "It was really scary," recalls Cliff Wallace, managing director of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, which is back to its normal slew of shows...
...broadcast network. NBC would run the new company, which would have estimated annual revenues of about $13 billion. Vivendi would keep 20% of the new firm. In return, it would receive $3.8 billion in cash and reduce its debt by $1.6 billion - less cash than Vivendi's original price tag, but a deal nonetheless. The lead actors are crowing over their triumph. "It was a long struggle," concedes Bob Wright, chairman and chief executive of NBC, who will head the company called NBC Universal if the deal goes through. "We want to be in the content creation and distribution business...