While I know that I’ve previously considered the Handspring Treo and the RIM Blackberry which are both intended to be used

While I know that I’ve previously considered the Handspring Treo and the RIM Blackberry, which are both intended to be used on the run, and that we’re reviewing the newest (colour) Treo below, there are some things that those don’t bring.In particular, neither has a working, full-size keyboard. Getting lots of data into a PDA can be hell if you’re limited to their standard input devices – either the “wand” of the standard Palm, Handspring and PocketPC systems, or the tiddly nubs (“keys” is too grand, like calling bonsai “shrubbery”) of the Treo and Blackberry.The saviour, for those who actually need to do some writing on the move, is the Targus Stowaway keyboard, whose benefits I didn’t really come to realise until I was out of the office recently and needed to do a lot of typing.The Stowaway surely deserves as many design prizes as can be found, for putting a full-size keyboard into something that folds up into a package the same size as the Palm or Handspring it attaches to. I have a tiny keyboard that folds out, and when I’ve finished I’m going to e-mail it from my Handspring computer (on which I’m reading what I write) straight to the office Never shall a desktop computer touch it, until it lands Which is what mobile computing ought to be about, after all. Well, we’re not quite there yet, but it has to be said that when it comes to the proper integration of mobile phones and handhelds, things are looking up.
I am writing this on a train; no big deal, you may reckon Except that I’m not using a laptop. Appointed chief executive in 1997.Interests: Fishing, football and music.. Mr Mansfield admits: “Chris has told us that he doesn’t want to get out of bed so early any more.”DAVID MANSFIELD SWITCHED-ON PLAYERTitle: Chief Executive, Capital Radio.Age: 48.Pay: £373,000.Career history: Salesman for Terry’s chocolate, moving into media as a marketing man for Scottish Television and Grampian. Although nothing is official, it looks as if Capital FM and London will have to go through the agony of getting used to a new voice to wake up to.

At the moment, it’s not even approaching warm.”But Capital’s biggest immediate problem appears to be Mr Tarrant, whose contract to host the London station’s powerhouse Breakfast Show runs out at the end of this year. Should the policy not be credible, inflationary expectations could raise bond yields, thereby making life tougher for companies faced with at least a short-term absence of pricing power.So far, I have considered domestic options. filed for bankruptcy protection, about a month after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting

Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc.

A company spokesman declined to comment ahead of today’s announcement.However, the appetite of American investors for new issues is set to be thoroughly tested this week, as five companies are expected to be raising money.”In a market like this the goal of the investor is to take as much risk out of the trade as possible,” said Tom Ortwein, the head of US equity capital markets for CIBC World Markets “If a deal is high quality, I feel it can get done.”. But since then its shares have fallen by 15 per cent, and estimates of the likely proceeds now range from £70m to as little as £30m. I don’t think there has been a flood of people leaving – we just do it on the basis of fairness to those who stay.”Earlier this month Investec said it wanted to raise £100m by selling new shares as part a dual-listing launch in London and Johannesburg. However, we want to protect those staying in the funds.”John Morgan of Legal & General said: “We have increased our MVA more actively than most. “There has been no increased demand for redemptions, though there has been an increase in inquiries and these increases may stem any outflow. A week ago it was only 6.5 per cent.Both companies denied the moves were in response to policyholders rushing to sell.”We are doing this as a result of the continuing fall in the market,” a Norwich Union spokesman said.

And Norwich Union has increased its impost for the second time in a week, from 8 per cent to 12 per cent. MCI is the company’s core long-distance business; UUNET is a major Internet player.Despite the bankruptcy, no immediate disruptions are expected for Worldcom’s millions of MCI long-distance customers or at UUNET, which accounts for 29 per cent of the capacity on the nation’s busiest Web routes.Mr Sidgmore said the bankruptcy won’t include the company’s international operations.The collapse of WorldCom follows costly scandals at other big-name companies, including Adelphia Communications, Global Crossing and Enron, all of which have filed for bankruptcy as they attempt to pay creditors and reorganize their businesses.The bankruptcy would be twice as large as Enron’s record-setting filing in December and four times as big as Global Crossing’s in January. At this point we don’t know how much revenue or cash flow the company has.”Mr Sidgmore said the company would look into selling some of its peripheral businesses, but not key franchises like MCI or UUNET. in Richmond, Virginia, said the banks providing the new money hope WorldCom will be able to emerge from Chapter 11 as a viable enterprise.”My concern with that scenario is it’s unclear what other surprises WorldCom has in store,” he said “The (internal) audit is not complete. “We don’t think that there will be any significant impact on the employees and vendors, for that matter, and we should have plenty of cash to make it.”Drake Johnstone, a telecom analyst with Davenport & Co. The company hopes to emerge from bankruptcy in 12 months.Mr Sidgmore said the bankruptcy should have no effect on the company’s customers from long-distance users to corporate data users.”At the end of the day, this really will be business as usual,” he said.