IOMEGA AS A TAKEOVER TARGET

Iomega never recovered from the double blow of manufacturing defective Zip drives and failing to foresee the world of cheap, ubiquitous recordable CDs. It has no growth products and no new ideas. Apparently it’s been hoarding cash and cutting costs. According to this...

DELL AXIM HANDHELD

My new Dell Axim PocketPC looks just great. Although the $199 version would be just fine for everyday use, many people will appreciate the extra memory in the $299 version (64Mb instead of 32Mb) – and the $299 model includes the cradle to sit on the desk for syncing...

SPACE SHIFTING

A great new buzz word has turned up. You’ve heard about “time shifting,” in which you use a video-recording device – a VCR or a TIVO – to delay the viewing of live content, such as TV shows. This year will see the introduction of a wealth of portable...

THE FUTURE OF HOME TECH

There’s exciting stuff being developed that will change the way your home entertainment system works. It will take a couple of years for it all to come to fruition, but the devices in the pipeline look very appealing. Here’s an article that sums up some of the trends....

USB DRIVE FOLLOWUP

The little drives discussed below (see November 20) are truly wonderful. Here’s a roundup of six more that are less than thirty dollars each, for 16Mb of storage space –more than enough to transfer your work files around.

USB DRIVES

I love my JumpDrive. Many people need to carry files from home to office. Floppy disks don’t hold enough, and zip drives break. (Zip drives break a lot! Don’t trust them with important data!) CD-RWs are a pain to use, and CD-Rs are cheap but not well suited to...