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...will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price tag...
Close on Sun's heels, Oracle this week is scheduled to introduce the first NC with the promised under-$500 price tag. "The PC is too expensive and too complex to ever be popular," Oracle's Ellison insists. "We need devices that are cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is a price tag for being a trained seal, only Sonny Callahan isn't picking up the tab. Alabama's seniors, children, students and workers...
...that there's anything wrong with old-fashioned, sticky-paper hi-my-name-is-squeaky! name tags. "A name tag is a really great piece of technology," says Borovoy, who insists that his team merely wants to help the technology evolve. "Our idea was to build a new kind of tag that tells you something more useful about a person. It's a name tag about us, as opposed to just me; it tells you about our relationship...
...Thinking Tag get-together, people wander about and let their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...