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                                 Reading palms
                                        
> We were also amused that Gates suggested that there would be meetings at
> which people would be pointing their tablet devices at each other and
> beaming contact information: he may not know that this infrared handshaking
> has been a reality with fanatical Palm owners for some time.
> 

Gates & Co describe long, hard code to .NET [1]

Then there was the business lunch to discuss issues pertaining to the project
I'm running Windows for. What I found amusing was that out of six people at
the table, five whipped out their Palm Pilots and started exchanging contact
information and data between them all.

I was the only one there without a Palm Pilot.

But I did have my Newton.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12279.html

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