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...mountaintops and temple grounds. Now, like the automobile and the breadmaker, the coin-op vendor is getting way smarter. The new crop is rigged up with video came-ras, touch-panel computer screens and optical sensors. And these are more than just bells and whistles. In many new models, wireless chips improve efficiency by alerting vendors when a machine is running out of Pocari Sweat or chips. This generation will also be able to hawk digital wares, from music and movies to paperless train tickets. And that promises to fundamentally remake the business by allowing vendors of electronic goods...
...much more to explain recently than his company's $886 million loss during 2000. For instance, why did he claim to be a 1987 Stanford graduate when he had spent only three years there? Everything looked rosy last spring when Pacific Century paid $36 billion for Cable and Wireless HKT, the biggest corporate buyout in Asia outside Japan. The Stanford admission may have made credibility as big a problem for Li as profitability...
TIME.com ON AOL See time.com/global for more on wireless devices. E-mail Michael Elliott at melliot@aol.com
SLIM PICKIN' Samsung, a company known for its stylish wireless phones, is sashaying into the market for combination phone-organizers with the SPH-1300 ($400). Billed as a hipper alternative to Kyocera's powerful but rather homely Smartphone, the SPH-1300 has the sleek good looks and 256-color screen of a high-end Palm. It weighs just 6 oz. and is about 5 in. long. There is no keypad, though, so you will have to dial with a stylus or by voice. It will be available in August through Sprint...
That’s a sad remark to make at the end of a man’s tenure as president of this prestigious university. Yet I have an ineffable sense of pity for Rudenstine and his predicament. I can imagine him, sitting on his desert island (wireless Internet?), hoping against hope that the protesters will run out of food, or interest, before graduation. Anything so that he can just go on into the world in peace...