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...fell into what's become a familiar Net trap: aggressively looking for "eyeballs," or Web-cruising customers, but ignoring the bottom line. Following Yahoo!'s lead, they offered services for free, hoping that a big number of subscribers would eventually bring in ad revenue. But advertising is a thin market in China?total spending online is well under $80 million, compared with $6 billion in the U.S.?and industry watchers say it will take years for China's online revenues to sustain even one portal...
...sales wither and dotcoms disappear, handheld-computer makers are enjoying a rather solitary spring fling. Just look at the flurry of new-product announcements in the past few weeks. From Handspring's razor-thin Visor Edge to a new memory-packed Compaq iPaq, a major upgrade has been trumpeted by nearly every PDA maker. Here's why: last year nearly 10 million PDAs were sold worldwide, almost double the number for 1999, according to research firm Gartner Dataquest. By 2004, the firm anticipates that everyone from executives to hairdressers will buy some 33 million PDAs, generating nearly $8 billion...
...cells that respond to higher pitches are the most vulnerable. So White finds women and children particularly difficult to understand. Another early sign is poor discrimination of consonants, which--in both male and female speech--tend to be higher in pitch and lower in intensity than vowels, so that thin, for example, may be indistinguishable from fin or shin...
...November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have set less stringent limits on new office development. Both propositions lost--L by a razor-thin margin. But the people may be gaining the upper hand. In December's district runoff elections, the 11-member board of supervisors swerved sharply to the left, upsetting the mayor's politically moderate, growth-friendly power base...
...small box that houses what could be the future of the telecommunications industry. Called a LambdaRouter, the device contains 512 microscopic mirrors, each of which can switch light waves packed with more than 10 billion bits of information--roughly the contents of 10,000 novels--from one hair-thin strand of optical fiber to another...