In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.
The machine has wi-fi built-in and can deliver news reports, weather, recipes and act as a karaoke machine in the evening.
"It came totally out the blue, " the 44-year-old machine setter told BBC News.
Effectively, the machine is checking for news of an incoming call or message briefly once every 15 milliseconds before powering back down, rather than keeping connections to the user's peers constantly open.
Last year a truck filled with microchips flown in from the Philippines--and set for use in the new Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Xbox videogame machine--was hijacked on the drive from the Guadalajara airport to the nearby Flextronics park.
In Russian-accented English, the news everyone fears to hear rose from the machine.
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Google has tried using news archives to feed its content and indexing machine.
But a spokeswoman for cash machine operator Europay International told BBC News Online that Austria's cash machines were working normally again by 1600GMT.
Among them: I-Stat, owned by Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ), which makes a handheld device for basic chemistry that uses so-called ion-selective membranes, and Cholestech (nasdaq: CTEC - news - people ), which has a lipids testing machine and relies on a glucometerlike optical reflection technology.
If this was a pill or or a machine with these results it would be front-page news in the Wall Street Journal.
Zocor, a competing drug made by Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), has been a similarly gargantuan revenue machine.
The news was another setback in Dell's efforts to get its profit machine back on track.
Inside, the machine runs an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 processor with a clock speed of 1.7 gigahertz.
Engineering companies like Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), transport firms like Deutsche Bahn, and machine tool firms could all be in Russia's sights.
"My guess is that the window for DNA computing will close fairly soon, " says Bernard Yurke , a researcher at Lucent's (nyse: LU - news - people) Bell Labs, who built a DNA adding machine.
Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.
Reuters news agency reports that columns of al-Shabab battle-wagons mounted with heavy machine guns have rushed to reinforce Afmadow, which is about 90km north of the port city of Kismayo, al-Shabab's main economic power base.
Inside the machine there's a Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people )-made 1-gigahertz PowerPC processor, an Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) GeForce4 440 Go graphics processor and a 60-gigabyte hard drive.
In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
Its maker, Amersham Biosciences , a division of Amersham Plc. (nyse: AHM - news - people ) of the U.K., claims the IN Cell machine will cut years off the drug-discovery process.
And speed is what this machine needs for applications like Adobe 's (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) Photoshop and Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) own Final Cut Pro for editing video.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
The machine is designed to take on Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) latest iMac, and Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) iMac knockoff, the Gateway One.
Palm execs say their machine could also sync up with Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) forthcoming iPhone, if Apple opens up its platform to outsiders, an unlikely prospect given the company's history.
EMachines' bottom-of-the-heap machine comes with a 1.1 gigaherz Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of SDRAM, a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a line of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ) software already installed.
Google is criticized because services like Google News provide the sorts of stories that in another era you needed to feed change into a newspaper vending machine to get.
In typically Asian fashion, some of the early news about who won the coveted role of Mulan whizzed round the world, not through any public-relations machine, but via the family grapevine.
The application, published Dec. 13, suggests Apple could adopt something similar to Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) widely criticized Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection program, which checks a user's machine to confirm that it is not running a pirated version of Microsoft's software in exchange for access to certain software updates.
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