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Article: Houston Chronicle Computing Column.
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- January 24, 2004
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By Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 24--At last year's Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates touted a new concept in wristwear -- watches that would allow you to receive personal messages, news flashes, weather reports and allow you to store contact information.
At the 2004 CES, Gates was back onstage talking timepieces, but this time he had something real to sell: So-called "smart watches" from Fossil and Suunto that are a combination pager and personal digital assistant.
The watches, which use a scheme from Microsoft called Smart Personal Objects Technology, or SPOT, ...