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To: REH who wrote (69160)	3/26/2001 12:52:50 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Pity the Poor PC: Its Days May Be Numbered Fm Latest Business Week Every four years, the association for Computing Machinery stages an exposition to take a peek at high tech's future. At ACM's first preview of the new millennium, held in mid-March in San Jose, Calif., there was the usual assortment of exhibits and expert forecasts--and one overriding message: The personal computer as we know it is on the way out, or should be. Of all the speakers who bemoaned the PC's shortcomings, William A.S. Buxton, chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront Inc. in Toronto, was especially caustic. For two decades, the PC has remained essentially unchanged, apart from having "more crap on it," he said. If Rip Van Winkle had dozed off in 1982, just after IBM launched its first PC, he would have no trouble with today's machines, he said. Buxton even suggested that the dearth of progress in designing friendlier computers may be to blame for the slump in PC sales and, by extension, in high-tech stocks. So what will the post-PC era be like? Well, many functions will fade into the woodwork--literally, if the exhibits on display were any indication. Microsoft Corp. showed a living room with embedded smarts controlled by wireless gadgets that understand speech. At Georgia Institute of Technology's booth, a model home featured a kitchen with sensors that read bar codes on packages to help prepare recipes and calculate when to reorder foods. And Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) unwrapped a medicine cabinet that uses face-recognition software to identify the image in the mirror. It then reminds family members what medicine to take, makes sure they grab the right vial by reading the label--and, for those with allergies, relays the day's pollen counts from the Internet. By Otis Port

To: REH who wrote (69160)	3/26/2001 1:27:22 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

I think that over the next two three weeks we will probably trade in the range of $21 to $26 more or less, and if we breach $21 on a closing basis, yes we may revisit the $15 area. Do you think the FUD is over, or better, are you sure that the bu$$ will prevail in its struggle against the German colossus Zeev