The popularity of the personal digital assistant has been steadily eroded by smart phones, digital cameras, music players and other devices that can provide many PDA functions. What's more, a lemminglike rush of computing and consumer electronics companies created a glut of products early on, hastening its predicted fate as the next analog pager, thermal fax machine or Tamagotchi Pet. http://news.com.com/2009-1025_3-5224632.html?tag=nefd.proincReceived on Thu Jun 3 17:09:45 2004