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Recently, though, I came into possession of what may be the ultimate weapon for people like me who hate cell-phone abusers: the C-Guard "cellular firewall," a $900 device that jams cellular calls. My pal Roger Rodriguez, a gentle soul who works in TIME magazine's tech department, actually ordered one. "I wanted to try it out," he explained. He had a look in his eye that I recognized...
...juxtaposition of your article about the abuse of foster children with the one on the high-tech, billion-dollar telescopes seemed to show exactly what takes priority. We are willing to spend huge sums of money on space research but cannot find enough funds to keep our children from abuse, starvation and exploitation. But somehow money is found to finance prisons for the damaged survivors of our foster-care programs. As a society we have to reorganize our system to protect the future generations, or all that expensive space research will count for nothing and we will be lost...
...challenge was not just breaking into the owner's circle, however. It was also hard to convince investors that the urban minority market he was targeting was viable--that blacks and Latinos ages 18 to 34 are a potentially profitable online demographic. Even before the tech market tanked last March, it was rough going for most black dotcoms. In the general spring housecleaning, they were likely to be the first to get knocked off. "A lot have already gone out of business," says Lary Tuckett, director of ethnic marketing for Luminant Worldwide, a Dallas-based Internet-services provider. "Or they...
...i700 is an innovative device," notes Christopher Chute, analyst at the high-tech market-research firm International Data Corp. "For the first time, a camera manufacturer has attempted to offer an all-in-one solution for digital-image capture, transmission and display and storage." Such an invention opens up all sorts of possibilities. Cross-country travelers could wirelessly update their home pages on the road with pictures from their trip. Guests at a family reunion or wedding could post images online just minutes after snapping them, so everyone who couldn't attend could see the action as it unfolded. Relocating...
...measure, a renaissance in manufacturing is long overdue. Traditional powder presses are not the only low-tech way parts have been built over the years; stamping machines, casting machines and forging machines are used to melt or muscle metal into shape. Not only are these machines imprecise, they are also fantastically expensive and hard to come by. A start-up company that wants to manufacture parts for a new product may have to wait two years for a press to be built and delivered. Not exactly the quick turnaround time we've come to expect in the age of silicon...