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...then fade to black. You can raise the volume remotely if you have multimedia slides. You can do all that while roaming around a room - as much as 15 m from your laptop - because the device talks to a receiver plugged into the USB jack. For the long-winded exec, the Presenter has a timer that counts down, vibrating in your hand when time's almost up. Available at logitech.com in February, this little gizmo lacks just one thing - what paid-programming pitchmen call a low-low price. It will cost around...
...president of Orbitz.com Sands, 37, is taking the Chicago-based travel website global. The marketing exec was tapped for the top job when travel and real estate services giant Cendant bought Orbitz late last year. His first international step will be letting customers use foreign credit cards to book online, especially Europeans eager to travel to the U.S. because of the weak dollar. Sands also plans to roll out foreign-language sites and use Cendant's long-standing relationships with hotels and time shares overseas to give Americans more options. --By Barbara Kiviat
Shoutfest Crossfire, conservative pundit TUCKER CARLSON left the network last week and is in negotiations with rival MSNBC. A CNN exec told reporters his decision to drop Crossfire was influenced in part by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who called Carlson and his liberal counterpart, Paul Begala, "partisan hacks" when he was on the show last fall. "It's a half-hour show at 4:30," says Carlson, who put in his resignation before Stewart's comments. "To say we're the problem with America is ludicrous." Yeah. It's prime time that's really doing...
...Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay for the peewee football epic Little Giants, picked this tryout location in part because he thought the conservative burg would appreciate Nino's homespun message about savoring life's simple pleasures, and in part because that's where he found a theater exec willing to give the $3 million film some screen time. No one expected that the crowds would keep coming...
...Harvard’s academic hotshots sits in a spacious eleventh story office in William James Hall, where the south-facing windows offer a view of Cambridge and the Boston skyline that would make any Bain Capital exec green with envy...