You upgrade the main operating system in your home so that you can gain greater functionality and speed and more features for your phone, PC, TV, etc.

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And to make matters worse, the rise of personal digital assistants, palmtops, embedded controllers, etc. promises in the next few years to render the PC industry into a backwater business filled with commodity products--hardly the place to be a pricey innovator.

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Ultra-connected, Parrot Zikmu Solo is compatible with any peripheral or network (iPhone, iPod, PC, Mac, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth mobile phone, Ethernet, etc.).

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Apply the relevant laws and you'll have a pretty accurate idea where microprocessor performance, PC usage, display technology, fiber optic bandwidth, wireless PDAs, games, the Web, etc. will be two, three and five years from now.

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