Novel trend must prove it's got the write stuff

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Electronic books, such as the about-to-be launched Softbook and Rocket eBook, are about to change the way one usually read books. Electronic books are designed with a simple on-screen menu to facilitate easy reading. With a black-on-white, touch-sensitive screen, readers can slip in bookmarks, mark up pages, search a whole book by just typing a key word and create dog-eared pages. Readers can also make the type on the page bigger to facilitate easy reading. However, since they are still quite expensive, a Softbook will reportedly cost $299, electronic books need to prove their usefulness first before it could eventually replace book publishing.

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Electronic books, such as Softbook and Rocket eBook, are about to change the way one usually read books

Book Publishers, Books NEC, Book publishing, Books, Article

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Blackberry: the 'heroin' of mobile computing

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Research In Motion's (RIM) wireless e-mail device, called BlackBerry, is winning enthusiastic followers, especially among high-tech executives, venture capitalists and financial analysts. The product competes with Palm computers, Microsoft CE devices and Web-enabled cellphones in a market that could be worth $20 billion by 2005. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based RIM has two models of the device, namely the 950 and 957, which sell for $399 and $499, respectively, including desktop software. Service fees are about $40 per month.

Canada, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Mobile Radio Systems, Wireless communications, Research in Motion Ltd.

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Sound technology turns the way you hear on its ear: Sound that focuses only on you piques interest of marketers, police, others

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American Technology Corp. has introduced HyperSonic Sound (HSS), a sound reproduction system that focuses sound waves into a beam and gives specific locations within an environment headphone-quality sound. The Los Angeles Police Department, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and others are testing the HSS system.

Facilities & equipment, Product introduction, New Products/Services, All Other Specialty Food Stores, Variety stores, Discount Stores, Computer industry, Microcomputer industry, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Equipment and supplies, Testing, Cover Story, WMT, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Audio equipment industry, Los Angeles, California. Department of Police

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