Here's one from the “keeping an eye on the competition” department . . .

WindowsForDevices.com executive editor Alexander Wolfe writes . . .

“In his keynote at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates sparked keen interest in SPOT, Microsoft's new smart personal object technology. SPOT will turn wristwatches into mobile tools ripe to receive information services and advertising via radio-frequency links.”

“Surely, the technology will take on PDAs, cell phones and Web browsers in a bid to become the platform for delivery of consumer content (until true convergence, anyway).”

“Gates smoothly introduced SPOT, and placed it within the context of what he and his speechwriters called 'smart living in the digital decade' . . .”

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