When is one more device just too many?
By JOCELYN NOVECK, The Associated Press
By JOCELYN NOVECK, The Associated Press
Published
02/21/10
Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a recent business trip to New York equipped with all the gadgets you might expect: personal smart phone, work smart phone, laptop, iPod touch.
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Work phone, personal phone, iPod, laptop … How much is too much?
Problem is, her hotel room didn't have enough outlets to keep the darned devices charged. "I unplugged the lamp and still couldn't do it," she noted ruefully. "At least half the things I'm carrying right now are just dead hunks of metal."
And so, though communications is her world, Marchenese has no plans to buy the iPad, Apple's new tablet device unveiled with much fanfare last...
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