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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (4144)	3/12/2001 3:50:49 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Mang: You have a point with all the "hidden" fees that may operate in China on cell phone usage. But if they want to expand cell phone usage as rapidly as they say they do and make telecommunication services widely available, they will have to make the service affordable to the bulk of the population, and not just the well-heeled minority. I would imagine that even a stripped down version of the Kyocera Palm unit - say a basic cell phone with M100 features - would still be fairly expensive. But we'll see in the due course of time. OT: Being British born and raised, I drink tons of tea and I can assure you it isn't helping me think this is OK! Wall Street's ex-hero Greenspan has been drinking something else that made him oblivious to the the fact that the effect on people's sense of well-being and spending of "irrational exuberance" of the market to the upside has its mirror image to the downside. And once he set that downside in motion, he apparently didn't account for the negative "feedback" effect that a rapidly declining market would have on people's sense of well-being and spending. Now he has a real problem in stopping this from unwinding further and having a recessionary impact on the entire world economy. David T.