July 3, 2003
NY Times: Windows Palmtops Reviewed.
Clearly, Microsoft still thinks about simplicity and directness only as an afterthought, if at all. (After my review of Pocket PC 2002 last year, a public-relations representative asked me, "What areas do you see for improvement - apart from, you know, that user-interface stuff?")
Bob Frankston: Hotspots Cold Cells.
The current telecommunications infrastructure has one overriding purpose -- to generate billable events. It is a tragic mistake to assume that this is the only way we can pay for vital infrastructure since it is an extremely inefficient and dysfunctional system that extracts an unbearable cost on society.
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