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2fl TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 2002 DETROIT FREE PRESS I WWW.FREEP.COM THE 5th WAVE Rich Tennant EVERY DAY IS 'TECH DAY' IN THE FREE PRESS 1 JUST TOO COOL meGhTod Contact us by e-mail at: techfreepressom GOODS AND GEAR ft muni, MICE Dell joins Microsoft in Pocket PC field "It's bad enough he fell asleep waiting for a huge music file to download into his music folder, but wait until he finds out he hit the 'send' button instead of selecting a 1 Z- il New York Times Adaptec's new kits make it more af fordable to convert analog tapes to digital video. Put old events on discs for less "Until recently, transferring recordings of old family events from tape to disc was a prohibitively expensive proposition. Now, Adaptec is one of many companies selling kits for converting analog tapes to digital video at affordable prices. The firm offers several ways of inn video into your computer or to a DVD recorder.

VideOh DVD, which is an USB encoder, and PCI, an internal card, produce MPEG 2.0-standard video. VideOh CD records NfPEG 1.1 video and can burn a CD but not a DVD. All three units come with rr.k Software's MyDVD editing suite for easy creation of Hollywood-style menus and navigation. Prices are S69.99 for VideOh CD, $149.99 for the PCI and 179.99 for the DVD MORE TECH TODAY -Mai If i Yd o- k- vl I A -rim rz 1 Vle-vSonlt A leading investor in WorldCom wants former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to be named chairman of the bankrupt telecommunications provider. Business, Page 1C politicians and activists asked Detroit's City Council to help them persuade Comcast to carry two community-based channels at no charge.

Page 6B Bill Gates wants to get in your pocket. At the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas this week, Gates unveiled Microsoft's latest effort a new handheld from Dell Computer that starts at $199, the lowest price yet for a color device running the company's handheld Pocket PC operating system. The Axim X5, which officially goes on sale'today, is Dell's first foray into the handheld market, long dominated by Palm and other handholds from Sony and Handspring that work on the Palm operating system. The fact that Gates demonstrated the new Dell unit fn his Sunday night keynote speech at Comdex shows just how aggressive Microsoft and its Pocket PC manufacturing partners plan to be over the next year in targeting the low- and medium-priced handheld market. Two other companies, ViewSonic and Hewlett Packard, also announced new PocketPC handheld modeis at The $299 ViewSonic V35 is the small-est and lightest Pocket PC to weighing 4.2 ounces.

It is also the first wireless unit under $300, Hewlett Packard released two new models of its iPAQ handheld. Hewlett-Packard's costs $299. ViewSonic's X35 weighs just 4.2 ounces. Dell's handheld Axim is priced at $199. TODAY'S PICKS CLICKS PC platform to 33.

And the lower-priced iPAQ the best-selling of all the Pocket PCs heralds a new round of competitiveness in the battle with Palm. At Comdex on Sunday night, Gates talked about his vision to create smart personal objects that extend wireless and Internet capabilities from a PC to a SHAKING IT UP Pop star Aaron Carter talks about his latest album. 7 p.m., www.teenpeople.cotn teenpeoplechatceleb THE CITY AND THE SEA Author John Keahey discusses his book 'Venice Against the Sea." 1 p.m., www wp-srvliveonllne i many devices, including handheld computers and digital TV sets. "It's not just sitting in front of dustry pep talk at what had once been the must-attend technology show of the year. Comdex used to draw 200,000 people every fall.

Last year, just two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, attendance dropped to 125,000. This year, Comdex will be lucky to get that many. The January Consumer Electronics Show has eclipsed Comdex as the tech industry's annual coming-out party. What's more, the show's owner, Key3Media, said last week it may seek bankruptcy protection, Gates, meanwihile, gushed about the new smart products in his speech, but was coy in releasing details.

Microsoft spokespeople said they'll show and tell more at CES. Contact MIKE WENDLAND at 313-222-8861 or mwendlandfreepress.com. One, the iPAQ hl910, sells for $299. The other Is the iPAQ 5450, a $699 model that comes with two kinds of wireless networking Aaron Carter PETTY TALK New Red Hat version is released Linux may be behind Micro-i-4'; in the operating-system jipularity contest, but it's twining ground, in part because be more affordable. The recent Linux release from Hat, Version 8.0, comes in personal edition for $39.95, compared with $199 for t3w full version of Windows XP -Borne Edition and $129 for Mac 106 10.2 from Apple.

Version 8.0 includes an user-friendly interface wtth installation software that 0ikes putting the system on a much easier. The system comes with the 1fozilla Web browser and the -Evolution e-mail and calendar piogram by t'XNew York Times that desktop PC," Gates said. The magic of software is spreading out to all different i devices and those devices are connecting in different capabilities. Chat with rocker Tom Petty about his new album. 8 p.m., http:chaLmsn.commsnllvefeature.msnw7ldsMSNLIveHome LOTSOFYUCKS Chat about food foibles at the virtual Callahan's Saloon.

9 p.m., http:callahans.50megs.compublicchatcal.html The new models from Dell and ViewSonic bring the to ways. tal of computer manufacturers who have signed onto the Pocket Gates Comdex keynote address was meant as a state-of-the-in Read Mike Wendland's e-journal dailyatwww.freep.comtech TV I Channel 62 may lose its local news WWW.rREEP.COM (tiSPS 155-5001 (ISSN 1055-2758) Published daily by the Detroit Free Press at 600 Fort Detroit, Ml 48226 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT DETROIT. Ml Detroit newspapers Mnrne Delivery Service ftafcsrtied Advertising "iUU 'srtiay Advertising Olhflr Departments 313-222-6600 586-977-7500 1-800-WANT-AOS 313-222-2355 313-222-6400 CET A JVNIP Otyvoilli WEEKEND: Sign up for e-mail delivery of 6Ur handy planning guides for your weekend sport or entertainment fun. www.freep.comnewsnewsletterplanner signup.htm. SEASON TICKET: Plan to be entertained with our guide to the 2002-03 arts music schedule.

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WXYZ-TV is owned by Cincinnati-based Scripps-Howard Broadcasting. A formal announcement could come Wednesday. Executives at channels 50, 62 and 7 declined comment or were unavailable Monday night. Local media attorney Henry Baskin said Monday night that people in the advertising community told him over the weekend that they had been approached about supporting a Channel 7-pro-duced news program on Channel 50 and that a deal appeared imminent. Speculation about Viacom getting out of the high-cost local news business in Detroit started in late summer.

Viacom corporate and local executives refused then to confirm that local news on channels 50 and 62 would continue beyond November. About 70 people are employed by Viacom's news operation in Detroit; not many are expected to be retained by the Channel 7 WC'fiommunication Device for Deaf (TDDI 313-222-2576 fEE PRESS EDITORIAL PHONE NUMBERS MtooalPage 313-222-6583 WK.alNev.5 313-222-6600 SDcrts 313-222-6660 Way We Live 313-222-6610 313-222-9610 liismess News 313-222-8765 Wlic Editor 313-222-2441 order free Press books 1-800-245-5082 Speculation had run high that new Viacom station chief Dennis Swanson had decided Viacom could not make financial or ratings headway in the Detroit TV race. On Monday, Dana McClintock, Viacom vice president of communications, said an earlier statement that local news was in play "still holds today." Viacom acquired ownership of the two stations in 2000 when it combined operations with CBS in a major broadcast industry consolidation. Channel 50 has had a small news presence since the 1960s, and was the first with a 10 p.m. newscast in the market.

CBS was affiliated since the dawn of the TV age with WJBK-TV (Channel 2), but lost its local news presence in 1994 when WJBK was acquired by interests aligned with the FOX network. It changed its affiliation and took its news operation with it. Channel 2 promptly challenged Channel 50 with another 10 p.m. newscast and generally beat it in the ratings. CBS was then forced to buy minor player Channel 62 (then WGPR-TV, now WWJ-TV) and start from scratch.

It did not have a newscast until February 2001, when Channel 50 started an 11 p.m. newscast on Channel 62. The move will not affect CBS network news programming. Channel 7's move to produce a 10 p.m. newscast puts it up against WJBK and provides a major challenge for WJBK and WDIV-TV (Channel 4), its major competitors for lucrative newscast dollars that can provide up to 50 percent of a station's annual revenue.

Channel 7 will be paid by Viacom or share revenue for the 10 p.m. newscast. Because UPN lead-in shows tend to reach a younger audience, it could be a major financial gain. Swanson is a former ABC executive familiar with Channel 7 operations. Matt Friedman, a former news executive at WDIV and now a public relations executive for Marx Layne, said Monday "this appears to be purely a financial decision.

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