My So-Called Digital Life.

This section presents an update on issues related to the high technology industry in the U.S. as of October 2004. The author claims that between the TechXNY and the Digital Life trade show, he feels like he's been living inside a suitcase. At the Digital Life trade show, Google announced its new desktop search engine. The show was sponsored by a gadget rag that's a cross between Maxim and IEEE Spectrum. Oracle's consulting unit is in the middle of a reorganization designed to make it easier to absorb the PeopleSoft consultants after Oracle has assimilated them.