Illustration: Harry Campbell We do love our cellphones. And we hate them, too, of course—when they drop a call, go dead in the middle of a conversation, or simply fail to work in another country. Soon we’ll probably be complaining about other things—perhaps that our handsets can’t receive satellite TV broadcasts or last more than […]
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SPECIAL REPORT: DO-IT-ALL DEVICESLike the idea of a handheld device that can be any of about 10 different gizmos, depending on your mood? You could soon have one if the ideas described in this two-part report become reality. In this article, Nick Tredennick and Brion Shimamoto of the Gilder Technology Report tell why only programmable logic devices
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Illustration: Tavis Coburn Time was when most radio sets had no software at all, and those that had any didn’t do much with it. But Joseph Mitola III, an engineer working for a company called E-Systems (now part of Raytheon), envisioned something very different—a mostly digital radio that could be reconfigured in fundamental ways just
Of all the regions in the world, the twin health and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have the potential to hit the Pacific the hardest. Pacific Island nations supported Australia during our bushfire crisis, sending members of their defence forces and making donations to communities in a much wealthier nation. This region is
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Illustration: Sean McCabe; Above: Fiat; Average: Christine Balderas / iStockphoto; Below: Bugatti Automobiles SAS High-circulation magazines do some things well, but serious coverage of technology is usually not one of them. First, these are business stores for which technology coverage usually means financial development reports of companies that accidentally offer technology-related products or services, as
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