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...billion investment in America Online. (AOL, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner.) In the past year or so, Google Inc. has doubled in size to about 6,000 employees to handle all the new work. Even the bullish Rashtchy acknowledges that "Google is a black box for most people...
Where have all the pixels gone? That's what cartoon mavens were asking about the Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio...
...short Gopher Broke. "I hate seeing political motivation influencing what's chosen." Perhaps the main reason no CGI film was nominated is that Pixar postponed the release of Cars--its only feature scheduled for 2005--to 2006. But the other CGI studios still won where it counts: worldwide box office for Madagascar, Chicken Little and Robots together was more than $1 billion. That means their makers can cry all the way to the piggy bank...
...phone book Enter the name and address of a person or business into Google's search box for a phone listing...
...Google has long excelled at tracking down Web links on obscure topics, from Asian floral designs to Zambian hairstyles. But now its improved search box also provides quick, direct answers to many common queries. Here are some tips and tricks...