By 1998, the number of mobile data workers is expected to be 6.8 million, up from 1.5 million in 1993. The move is seen as another signal of CEO Lou Gerstner's efforts toward recentralizing many of IBM's corporate functions to capitalize on the company's size and scale to achieve cost and market advantages. The screens are also used in camcorder viewfinders and in head-mounted displays for virtual reality applications. The company is targeting multinational banks and investment firms in the U.S. and the U.K. that need high-speed voice, video and data communications capability. The interactive electronic kiosks allow customers to record comments about their shopping experience and the service, or lack of, they received.
Retailers get an edited videotape and an analysis of the responses.
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