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Thursday, January 11, 2007
When I checked in to CES yesterday, I couldn’t believe my eyes. They were scanning my card through a reader attached to a Handspring PDA. A black and white model, even!
When I was at one of the manufacturers I was interviewing, I asked for details on the legacy hardware use. I was told that all the vendors are forced to rent them at a couple of hundred dollars a day and they have to pay for the data at the end of the show! Now I did see other booths with the more modern readers, so when the word “forced” was used, I suspect that’s if you don’t bring your own fancy new bling version. Still, funny to see Handspring living after all these years of being absorbed by Palm, Inc. Grand.
