Want to get yourself some opera tickets? Just go down to the soda machine and swipe your card

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USA Technologies, backed by I.B.M. Global Services has introduced e-Port, a device that can be attached to a candy machine or the like that would allow a customer to order items from Web sites. This opens the door for marketers to use interactive advertising, targeting customers in places like restrooms and coffee shops. The e-Port can link up a consumer to news, weather reports and electronic mail as well.

Marketing procedures, New Products/Services, Marketing, Marketing/Advertising Methods, Product development, USA Technologies Inc.

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Hewlett introduces a powerful computer; servers revamped in two-year effort

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HP's unveiled Superdome, the main weapon in its campaign to regain Unix server market share from Sun Microsystems. The server will start at $400, 000. HP plans to price it so customer's won't pay for unused processing power. It has 150 orders for the machine. Sun plans an upgraded model of its servers this fall. The company sold $5.17 bil in computer hardware last quarter, of $11.82 bil total revenue. Shares are down, mostly on disappointing server sales last quarter and uncertainty over HP's acquisition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting business for $18 bil.

Statistical Data Included, Computer hardware, Hardware product introduction

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A new crop of palmtops with roots in the PC

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New personal digital assistants from Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer Corp., and Toshiba mark the release of Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system for handhelds, the Pocket PC 2002. The new handhelds are the Compaq iPaq, the HP Jornada and the Toshiba Genio E.

Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Japan, ELECTRONIC & OTHER ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, Electrical & Electronic Equip, Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing, Evaluation, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Electrical equipment and supplies industry, Electric equipment industry, Toshiba Corp., Product description/specification, Product/Service Evaluation, Product information, Compaq Computer Corp., CPQ, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 (Operating system), Toshiba Genio e (Personal digital assistant), Compaq Ipaq H (Personal digital assistant), HP Jornada Handheld PC (Personal digital assistant)

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