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Mon May 31, 2004

A Future With Nowhere to Hide?

:. Articles

We're all too familiar with the concept of technology as a double-edged sword, and wireless is no exception. In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood. Yes, the idea of shedding wires and cables is exhilarating: we can go anywhere and still maintain intimate contact with our work, our loved ones and our real-time sports scores. But the same persistent connectedness may well lead us toward a future where our cell phones tag and track us like FedEx packages, sometimes voluntarily and sometimes when we're not aware. More...

Mobile Phones Could Make Your PC Obsolete

:. Articles

One hundred nineteen hours, 41 minutes and 16 seconds. That's the amount of time Adam Rappoport, a high-school senior in Philadelphia, has spent talking into his silver Verizon LG phone since he got it as a gift last Chanukah. That's not even the full extent of his habit. He also spends countless additional hours using his phone's Internet connection to check sports scores, download new ringtones (at a buck apiece) and send short messages to his friends' phones, even in the middle of class. "I know the touch-tone pad on the phone better than I know a keyboard," he says. "I'm a phone guy." More...

Fri May 14, 2004

E3 is “Blast from the Past” for Mobile Gamers

:. Event Coverage

imageThe highlight of the first day at E3 was getting “hands-on” time with the new Nintendo DS or Dual Screen handheld. Nintendo has decided to put in Bluetooth connectivity in order to encourage mini-LAN play in a circa-100 foot area and the double-screen does even more than we initially expected. While the DS still features the familiar touch pad and four-button diamond pad, the bottom screen is a touch pad that can be used to provide additional on-screen details or serve as the game interface. We played with games featuring the traditional Nintendo IP characters in which you could race with the traditional controllers a la Mario Karts and in which you could use a stylus on the touch pad to circle items or creatures on the touch screen and have them disappear from the top screen. More...

Wed May 12, 2004

Is the E3 Crowd Discovering What PDA Today Readers Have Always Known?

:. Event Coverage

One of the great ironies of gaming is the little-known fact that the original Nintendo Entertainment System (8-bit) was designed to include modem functionality. The U.S. model that conquered the interactive entertainment industry and redefined mass market sales for game designers never actually implemented the feature, nor did Nintendo ever create the dial-up service that they had planned for their users that might have been a mini-equivalent of a fledgling AOL (then known as QuantumLink and PC Link). More...

Sun May 02, 2004

Outsourcing Clash Heats Up Election Campaigns

:. Spit from the Llama

With John Kerry almost certainly destined to emerge victorious from the Democratic primary fray, he is turning up the heat on the hot-button topic of overseas outsourcing -- and the Bush administration is preparing to respond in earnest.

The overall US$10 billion IT outsourcing market still makes up less than 3 percent of global spending on information technology services, according to research by consultancy Brean, Murray & Co. However, the recession of 2000-2001 and the achingly slow economic recovery have made outsourcing a flashpoint issue for many U.S. citizens and corporations.

After all, outsourcing is good for companies. General Electric, for example, has saved an estimated $300 million per year -- $30,000 per job -- by sending some process-related positions to India. But laid-off workers' chances of finding another job at a comparable salary seem increasingly dim.

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