Acknowledgments

I owe a great deal of thanks to the people and products that have inspired me in the world of consumer gadgets—the executives and media relations contacts, some old friends and some new acquaintances, who have expressed interest and enthusiasm for this project and have provided trial devices for review.

In particular, I’d like to thank (in alphabetical order by company) Michael Merrick and Terry Sullivan (General Motors); May Baccari, Maureen Farley, Eric Horvitz, and Peter Wootton (Microsoft); Caroline Leigh (NCR); Meredith Gordon and Amy Podurgiel (Nikon); Keith Nowak (Nokia); Carla Vallone (Segway); and Nancy Sherrer and Cindy Voss (Sprint PCS).

I’d like to thank Jim Boyd, Executive Editor at Financial Times Prentice Hall, for ...

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