"We want to manage the cost of desktop operations and increase stability, " says Gene Dickamore, business systems manager for Arup Labs, a medical reference laboratory.

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"We call it a Dick Tracy watch, " said Carl Taussig, director of information surfaces at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in a reference to the comic-strip detective whose high-tech wristwatch doubled as a two-way radio.

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