All that is needed to run it is a mass-produced hand-held computer.
Potentially even more significant is the year-old Symbian alliance a joint-venture between Psion, an innovative British hand-held computer firm, and the three biggest mobile-telephone makers, Nokia and Ericsson of Europe and Motorola.
Mr Bastiaens has a slightly checkered record he was partly responsible for Newton, Apple's failed hand-held computer but he is convinced that speech applications will change the way that people live and work before then.
It not only created the hand-held computer category and the first workable handwriting-recognition system, it also pioneered the whole idea of doing digital tasks -- including e-mail and Internet browsing -- on a device other than the PC.
Initially the services will be prepared for users of the BT Openworld service, but eventually it will be expanded to become a portal that BTs customers can access via almost any device - be it interactive TV, hand-held computer or mobile phone.
More than 40% of Americans spend three or more hours a day staring at a computer or hand-held, according to the American Optometric Association.
It is a hand-held version of the more elaborate role-playing games that keep youngsters glued to TV and computer monitors.
It includes optical films for computer monitors, televisions, and hand-held electronics.
It's best to measure your work environment, noting exactly how far your eyes are from your computer screen, keyboard and desk surface, as well as from any laptop or hand-held devices you use.
After experience with early hand- held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974.
FORBES: A Silent Voice: James Porter, Dean of Storage Analysts Dies
应用推荐