Palm Unveils New Mid-Level PDA Into Crowded Market
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At about $250, Palm's new m125 personal digital assistant, or PDA, will sit between its high-end m500 line, aimed at choosy professionals, and the entry-level m100, targeted to cost-conscious consumers.
Santa Clara, California-based Palm says it designed the model to appeal to first-time customers, by keeping the cost relatively low, while building into the handheld appealing features such as an expansion slot that eases the addition of extra memory and applications.
"These (consumers) are people that are very sensitive to brand and price, and they have been waiting for that right kind of mixture of feature and functionality before they purchase," said John Cooke, Palm's senior director of product management.
In the UK and several places in the US, copies of Microsoft Flight simulator where taken of the shelves. The theory being that the terrorists could have used the program to train for their mission. Also, the new version of the game has been delayed slightly as the World Trade Centers were being removed. Many other games were pulled such as Spider Man. Also, many movies were pulled.
In other MS news, the case between MS and the US Justice Department has been delayed a week. This will further hinder any attempt to stop the shipping of Windows XP.
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Yet, I do not think these will be the real effects on the industry. I believe that consumer confidence is going to drop to the bottom. The market for computer games, new processors, and better operating systems will not exist. This will create a massive slowdown as to the future of computer development. This will mean all our news days in a few months will look like the last week’s stories.
As citizens of the world, we must continue to purchase as we have previously. This is the only way that we will salvage the tech industry and many others. Current war does not have a massive effect on the productivity of companies as it did in the past. I do not expect war to have a positive or negative effect on the economy.