By gadget-lover standards, the voice-controlled PDA that Lernout & Hauspie is showing at Demo 2000 this week is both eye- and ear-catching. Still, it's just a prototype, and it will remain so unless hardware vendors decide to team up with L&H to market the device.
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Speech recognition -- a long-time interest of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates -- has a new delivery vehicle of sorts: MiPad (multimodal interactive notepad) technology, announced this week at Microsoft's Latin America Enterprise 2000 Solutions Conference in Miami.
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Despite a few design quirks, the sleek Sony CLIE PEG-TH55/G offers a long list of features that will appeal both to business users and those with more playful natures.
Dell's debut handheld is high on features and low in price, making it hard to resist, but Australian release dates are still elusive. You could always import one.
While it isn't loaded with features, this 300MHz handheld is an inexpensive and reliable Pocket PC.
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