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General Magic, which was building portable electronic organizers long before the Palm Pilot made them popular, has a new trick up its sleeve. At this week's Networld+Interop show, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm, whose clunky gear missed the handheld revolution, will unveil a voice-activated electronic secretary, code-named Serengeti, that lets users dial in from their cell phones and ask to hear phone messages, e-mail, addresses, appointments, stock quotes and news. The service, due this summer, responds to normal speech and will be available from wireless carriers for $20 to $30 a month...
Residents say the building's original owners, Sidney and Norman Gross of Brookline, sold the properties in order to "distance themselves" from code violations...
...Army will have a much tougher time punishing Hale now that he has retired. Responding to a written inquiry from Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, Army Colonel Scott Black recently wrote that "although retired soldiers remain subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are only prosecuted by courts-martial when extraordinary circumstances are present." And senior Pentagon officials say it will be much harder to reduce Hale's rank, and consequently his pension, even if Carpino's charges are substantiated. "Once he's retired, the burden of proof shifts from him to the Army," says Korb, the former...
...sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
Microsoft's initial revenues come from software licensing; the code for the hit travel site Expedia, for instance, will soon fuel sites for American Express and Northwest Airlines, among others. And the financial sector is next. Last week Microsoft unveiled its Investor Platform Kit, which lets banks and brokers put mix-and-match versions of Investor on their own sites...