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My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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All About The MAN
Spam Overload Dept:
According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
Tech
Essentials:
Ben Sullivan's
Tech Blog
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Beta News
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Alice & Bill.com|
Everything
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CNET
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News.com
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NY Times
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SiliconValley
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Slashdot
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The Register
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Tom's Hardware
|Walt Mossberg
Business Magazines:
Business 2.0
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Business Week
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CFO
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Economist
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Fast Company
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Forbes
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Fortune
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Inc.
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Newsweek
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Red Herring
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Smart Money
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Time
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US News
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Wired
 Syndicate
my Site
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Alice Hill's Technology
Watch
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Scooter Clone takes on the Segway
 According to BBC World news "A US company has come up with an imitation of the invention that was supposed to revolutionise transport. The Rad2Go Q electric scooter looks like a Segway, but has four wheels and costs a quarter of the price."
Of course, the Segway was perhaps the most-hyped product of the boom years and sales to this day remain flat. Meanwhile tales abound on cities that ban them from sidewalks, a hit and run involving a little girl, and even Segway crime rings. Not sure how cutting the price of a competing product will jump start this category, but as fewer people walk anywhere, maybe one day a hefty $499 scooter for sale at WalMart may do the trick.
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