Word: teche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the holiday season once again with us, it's time to start looking for something for that hard-to-please technophile on your gift list. All too often, high-tech gifts seem like nothing more than overpriced toys for oversized kids. Do not be fooled by your first impression, though; to some of us, nothing says "I love you" like a new scanner or Zip drive...
Sure, you may not be able to spring for an in-home virtual reality set, or one of IBM's new Internet-enabled minivans, but there is a treasure of affordable hi-tech gizmos, hardware and software on the market this year...
...hottest trends in tech this year has been the market acceptance of powerful electronic organizers such as 3Com's PalmPilot and handheld computers based on Microsoft's Windows CE. Throw out your stale DayTimer; the new wave of productivity tools allows you to synchronize (and, importantly, make copies of) daily schedules, phone numbers and memos...
...Grim Oracle for Tech Stocks Lingering Asian flu leaves software giant Oracle looking positively pallid: the firm lost a third of its value today. Is it the first of many victims...
...Citing the Asian market slump and poor telecoms sales, the software maker reported sharply disappointing second quarter earnings Tuesday ? and promptly lost a third of its value in frenzied trading. Play on Oracle accounted for a quarter of the total volume of NASDAQ action ? and the rest was a tech sell-off, erasing all of the index's Monday gains...