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...will also take videoconferencing out of the conference room, eliminating the need to schedule meeting time and reserve equipment. Polycom is working on a Web Office system, scheduled to debut within two years, that aims to improve the discontinuous picture grabs that now qualify as person-to-person Internet video calling. Ideally, most workers would eventually have a camera attached to their desktop or laptop computer, loaded with software that allows streaming-video calls to anyone, anywhere, at any time, without having to pay long-distance phone charges. When that happens, the travel industry may have even more cause...
...understand his past is to understand upheaval. After spending childhood pinballing between his birthplace of Detroit and Louisiana, Benson eventually settled in Oakland, California, where in the mid-1990s he was discovered by Virgin Records and signed to a multi-album deal. Benson’s 1996 debut, Mississippi One, fell into the familiar rut of being critically acclaimed but commercially shunned, due in part to troubles with the record company. His first record has gone out of print, but since its release, Benson has switched labels and released a new album, Lapalco. With this new beginning, his career...
...exhaustion” which put her in the hospital last summer. Her most recent album, released on Sept. 11, sold just 478,000 copies and cost her record company $10 million. And if that weren’t bad enough, A Walk to Remember, the highly forgettable movie debut of third-rate pop singer Mandy Moore, just earned in its first weekend nearly three times what Carey’s Glitter grossed in its entire...
...Washington. Their first production credit came with the 1992 Moods album A Feeling, followed by their first remix in 1993 of Angela Marn’s “Slippin and Slidin.” Only in 1998 did Deep Dish achieve international prominence with their critically acclaimed debut album, Junk Science. Over the past five years, Deep Dish have remixed the world’s hottest artists—everyone from Tina Turner and the Rolling Stones to Madonna and ’NSYNC. In 2001 they earned their first Grammy nomination for Remixer of the Year; their second...
...dubbed her debut That Girl, because after she lent spitfire to Ice Cube and Mack 10’s “You Can Do It” for the Next Friday soundtrack, that became her most common moniker. First she resisted the label; then she embraced it. After the decade of grabbing for MC fame that led Ms. Toi no further than the gender gap, this inspirational exchange, sputtered over an admittedly tight beat, was all it took to get her signed to a major label: “Ms. Toi: You can do it put your back into...