They don't carry purses, but they do carry briefcases. A 2-pound device is a lot less of a hassle than a 5-pound device [laptop].

She reaches down into her bulging tote bag and pulls out a small plastic box with a hinged lid. It contains a round pill box with a threaded lid from which she tips out a vitamin pill, a fish-oil pill, and the enzyme tablet that lets her stomach digest milk. Inside the hinged plastic box she also carries packets of salt, pepper, horseradish, and hand-wipes, a doll size bottle of Tabasco sauce, chlorine pills for treating drinking water, Pepto-Bismol chews, and God knows what else. If you go to a concert, Bina has opera glasses. If you need to sit on the grass, she whips out a towel. Ant traps, a corkscrew, candles and matches, a dog muzzle, a penknife, a tiny aerosol can of freon, a magnifying glass - Landsman has seen everything come out of that overstuffed cowhide at one time or another.

There are a lot of things that the Windows platform does better than the Palm platform.

The studios are ultimately going to decide, ... It appears they don't want to bet on a particular format, which may be the trend going forward.

When it comes to consumer electronics, the longer you wait, it's always going to be smaller, faster, cheaper.

Often consumers don't have an easy way to get the pictures off the camera. So they use them as wallpaper and screensavers instead of printing them, ... It shows how consumers are changing the way they are interacting with digital technology. Consumers are realizing that there's many ways they can interact with their pictures other than just printing them out and pasting them into an album.