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...business. In the $600 million market for hot-selling single-use cameras, the company remains under attack not only from Fuji but also from swarms of private-label manufacturers that are eating into Kodak's lead. Still other Kodak products--like medical X rays and writable CD-ROMs, storage devices that can hold images and data--have come under heavy price pressure...
...with parasitic intention or vampiric intensity, men have turned to women for inspiration. F. Scott Fitzgerald had Zelda, Rodin had Camille Claudel, Picasso had a distaff palette; and Bob Dylan, one of the most intriguing, important, irascible figures in rock, had whom? On Time Out of Mind, his first CD of new, self-penned material in seven years and his most consistently rewarding album since the '70s, Dylan seems to be haunted by an imaginary, unnamed muse who has come and gone, leaving him loveless and listless, feeling out of fashion and out of time. The situation is desperate...
LOCK AND LOAD: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT CD-ROM ACTION HERO...
When it was unveiled in 1992, Sony's MiniDisc seemed poised to top Betamax as its most ill-starred innovation. To American audiophiles making a costly transition from vinyl to CD, the MiniDisc posed the unwelcome prospect of another shift in music formats. Sales, not surprisingly to everyone but Sony, disappointed...
...rather than hit rewind, Sony has decided it was playing the wrong marketing music. "Many people thought we were trying to replace their CD collection," says Sony senior vice president Mark Viken. "It's a portable, digital replacement for the cassette, to take music on the go and make your own compilations. We didn't explain it clearly." Now Sony is trying to make itself better understood. It has relaunched the Mini with a national ad campaign, hoping to spur the 10-fold increase in sales seen in last fall's test markets and help the U.S. join an expected...