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To: LiPolymer who wrote (20243)	6/23/2000 2:23:00 PM
From: P. Ramamoorthy	Respond to of 27311

Non-PC gadgets to grab spotlight at PC Expo yahoo.cnet.com pc expo PC Expo will open next week in New York, and one of the toughest things to find at the show will be a personal computer. Handheld computers, Internet appliances and other gadgets will be the central focus of the four-day trade show, which begins Monday with a series of seminars. A total of 85,000 visitors are expected to attend PC Expo, said a spokesman for CMP Media, the show's sponsor. Sony, for instance, will offer the first glimpse of its highly anticipated Palm-powered handheld. Chip start-up Transmeta will display future notebooks, a PC Expo staple, but with a twist; the portables will contain the company's Crusoe processor. Keynote speakers include Handspring CEO Jeff Hawkins and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, but executives from the traditional PC makers are not set to make an appearance. Meanwhile, Dell Computer and Intel will show off, respectively, a home MP3 player and a Linux-based Internet terminal at technology events going on elsewhere in New York. Some major PC companies technically won't even be at the show. Dell, Micron Electronics and Compaq Computer have decided to forgo renting booth space or meeting rooms at the trade show because of the cost, said various sources. Instead, those companies will hold meetings in hotels. Dell, for instance, is conducting meetings and hosting cocktail parties at the Four Seasons. The shift in focus at the conference, one of the major annual hardware shows, reflects the evolution of the technology industry toward a panoply of devices. Two years ago, when Compaq's then-CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer opened the show, PCs served as the primary conduit to the Internet... >>>>>>>>>>>> Ram