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...even in a digital world in which music is given away and traded free, record companies won't go away. Dick Wingate, senior vice president of Liquid Audio, a digital-music company that works with the major labels to distribute music in a copy-protected digital format, says that "there's too much noise out there. You have to find a way to let people know it's there, and that costs money. Record companies have the money...
...video equipment and began filming Baby Einstein in their basement. "It took forever," she recalls. "It was all done at night, after my husband came home from work and Aspen went to bed." The award-winning video features images and toys favored by her 1 1/2-year-old daughter, with an audio backdrop of songs and nursery rhymes spoken by mothers in seven different languages. Aigner-Clark hired the women from a nearby language school and instructed them to speak in "motherese," the universal, high-pitched tone that many mothers use when talking to their children...
...minivan. In December King also participated in a fund-raising test of the same "digital rights management" technology that is supposed to copy-protect downloaded files. Last year he pushed the limits of other publishing outlets, releasing a three-story collection called "Blood and Smoke" exclusively in audio book format. In a statement about his new download, King said, "I'm curious to see what sort of response there is and whether or not this is the future." MORE...
...dream machine. When that device arrives, I predict it will inherit the best genes of the Palm line: the readable color of the IIIc, the thinness of the V and the built-in wireless connectivity of the VII (although at broadband speeds, so you can pull down video and audio). And if I have my druthers, it will run on Palm's elegant, easy-to-use operating system, which with the IIIc is upgraded to version...
...mostly can't afford them. Phony pharmaceuticals are particular favorites, which compounds the moral squalor of the operation. In their off-hours the young hustlers watch Glengarry Glen Ross to learn the tricks of their trade and Wall Street to justify it. But they don't really need audio-visual education. Not when they have Jim Young so close at hand. He's their recruiter, mentor, goad and ideal. He's played by Ben Affleck, and the role may be the best thing Affleck has ever done--so abusive, yet so coldly glamorous in his amorality...