What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion.
Fortune: Sayonara auto showsupdated: Fri Jan 16 2009 09:51:00
Are auto shows going the way of manual typewriters, videotape recorders, and Palm Pilots?
As part of our Welcome to the Future special report, we recently asked for your thoughts on the future of sports and fitness.
Over the years I've heard of some pretty crazy, and paranoid, things done in the name of love.
A Canadian alderwoman who went missing south of the border for three days in 2003 was found guilty of fabricating a stalker and writing lurid letters to herself.
Money Magazine: Buysupdated: Thu Jul 01 2004 00:01:00
VINTAGE PALM Install wine pro Robert Parker's listings on your Palm Pilot. The software lists 5,000 wines under $30. It's $50 at erobertparker.com. That's half the site's annual fee.
I guess I fell out of love with my Palm at some point; for the past year or so, I've carried only a cheap cell phone and a BlackBerry. But ever since senior writer Om Malik--whom I listen to religi...
Business 2.0: Sneak Previewupdated: Thu Jan 01 2004 00:01:00
From Feb. 15 through 17, Scottsdale, Ariz., plays host to Demo, the annual show-and-tell tech conference that has hosted the debuts of previous innovations such as the Palm Pilot, E-Trade, and Java...
Being named the Sexiest Man Alive is hard. But qualifying as the Sexiest Geek Alive is even harder. The online screening test for the third annual "beauty pageant for social outcasts," March 12 in ...
When Tom Hazzard and his wife, Tracy, launched their company, ttools, in 1998--selling a combination stylus-ink pen that can go back and forth from electronic organizers like PalmPilots to paper--t...
What you don't know can hurt you. Especially when you used to know it. What we're talking about here is disclosure, or rather the lack of it. In many instances, companies suddenly stop disclosing v...
Your competitors are good, very good. You improve quality; so do they. You drop your price; so do they. So how do you stand out? David Kelley has an answer: great design. This Stanford professor an...
Traveling light is nice; traveling wired is better. Here's a roundup of accessories to make any journey more efficient, more productive, and, well, just a little bit more enjoyable. The selections ...
Fortune: 8 Wireless E-Mailupdated: Mon Mar 19 2001 00:01:00
If it weren't for wireless messaging, Rebecca Fyfe would probably be dead. Last month the British teenager was stranded with fellow tourists in stormy seas off the coast of Indonesia. The crew of t...
Like a lot of Americans, I'm someone who generally subscribes to the austerity-is-a-virtue theory. Lately, though, in the wake of some bankrupting holiday-season financial pressures, I've been temp...
Looking at the recent fate of semiconductor equipment stocks, you'd think that Congress had outlawed them. Applied Materials, the giant of the group, tumbled from $115 in April to $42 in October--a...
Okay, I admit it. Sometimes I like to drive to the coffee shop in town and sit with a Diet Dr Pepper to do my work. (Don't tell my wife.) The only problem has been that I haven't been able to get m...
Impromptu Gourmet couldn't wait any longer. It had assembled just about all the ingredients it needed: a strategy, $4 million from Scripps Ventures and other backers, and the product itself, haute ...
When it comes to money matters, Jonathan Pond is America's poster boy. From his media pulpit--programs such as NBC's Today show and regular gigs on public television--this 55-year-old certified pub...
I wouldn't call myself a Luddite, exactly. I have a CD player, a TV and a microwave oven, just like any other self-respecting American. But I draw the line at things like Palm Pilots and Blackberri...
There are three key drivers to wealth: what you earn, what you spend and what you do with the amount that's left.
Most of the time, I think it's safe to say, I want what you want. You want a big office in the corner, I know that. Well, so do I. You want a couple of weeks of vacation every summer, with nobody t...
Some people organize their lives around television shows like Sex and the City or Survivor. But for many of us, the most absorbing drama is the stock market, whose wild ups and downs have transfixe...
Motorola stock may be down 40% this year, but don't think the company's not doing all it can to boost sales. In Mariah Carey's latest video, she keeps up with duet partner Snoop Dogg on an ever-pre...
You probably don't know Brad Zumwalt, but perhaps you know someone like him: early 30s, in and out of deals all the time, rich enough by now to relax (though he can't), a mover and a shaper who cra...
If the only constants in the business world are amorality and greed, the graduates of USC's Marshall School will be well prepared. MBA candidates there are learning basic business tenets from deali...
Of all the technological marvels of the past 10 years--and there's certainly been no shortage of those--three in particular top the list of things that have made our day-to-day lives easier. Of cou...
When you deal in Internet time, there isn't much time to dawdle between the invention of an idea and the pressure to deliver. Take ASPs. It was just a while ago that the term "application service p...
It isn't easy to find a loser tech stock these days. Most of the majors are running at warp speed--flashing by so quickly that even Captain Kirk's off-key crooning couldn't slow them down. They're ...
Money Magazine: March Buysupdated: Wed Mar 01 2000 00:01:00
SCUBA PACKAGE Diving in Belize. Home to the second longest barrier reef in the world, Belize is a scuba enthusiast's dream. If you travel by April 30, Capricorn Leisure will fly you into the coasta...
Money Magazine: Connectivityupdated: Sat Jan 01 2000 00:01:00
$99.95 Nokia's 918p prepaid cell phone is great for infrequent dialers who want to pay as they go, with no contract requirements. Check retailers such as Blockbuster and 7-Eleven.
What is the most valuable part of your technology investment? Yes, this is a trick question. And no, it's not your PCs and servers. And it's not your software either. It's your data, the stuff that...
One of the obvious truths of media is that bad news draws a crowd. When planes crash, people tune into CNN. When the Dow plunges, CNBC's ratings climb. So hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, snow, hail,...
Chances are you don't need advice on how to earn frequent-flier miles. You already belong to half a dozen airline programs, rack up miles on at least one credit card and have long known that reward...
Fortune: Their Wildest Dreamsupdated: Mon Aug 16 1999 00:01:00
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we a...
With a flurry of competitors trying to wrest market share from 3Com's hugely popular Palm series of digital organizers, the company is under constant pressure to roll out new models. Two appeared i...
When you've created the fastest-selling computer products in tech history, what can you possibly do for an encore? That's what inquiring minds in Silicon Valley have wanted to know ever since Donna...
Fortune: Palm Softwareupdated: Mon Apr 13 1998 00:01:00
For Palm Pilot owners, the standard applications, called To Do List, Expense, and Date Book, are magic shields that hold back the evil forces of chaos, forgetfulness, and midweek senility. Now, how...
I was sitting at my desk yesterday, but what else is new. This young fellow who works for me was sitting on the other side of it, but so what. And I was putting a paper clip at the top of a sheaf o...
Introduced two years ago, 3Com's Palm Pilot has become the hottest personal digital assistant (PDA) around, with more than a million units sold. The tiny hand-held unit didn't try to do everything-...
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