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After losing $410 million in fiscal 1998, which ended Sept. 30, electronic-controls and communications conglomerate Rockwell International took the drastic step of spinning off its semiconductor business into a separate company. It is a giant, with sales of roughly $1.3 billion, or nearly a fifth of Rockwell's total 1998 volume of $6.8 billion. But Rockwell CEO Don Davis insists that the move was necessary to allow Rockwell to concentrate more on its core businesses, principally factory automation and aviation controls. (A possible result of divided attention: Rockwell in 1998 overestimated demand for new high-speed computer modems...
...point margin, voters across the internet opted for the Sicilian defense earlier this week in an online match against Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The contest, which Microsoft grandiosely bills "Kasparov vs. the World," began Monday in New York when Kasparov moved a giant Pawn to E4 on a 400 square-foot chessboard in Bryant Park. Back in cyberspace the World, aided by a panel of chess champions hired by Microsoft, had 24 hours to respond. The Microsoft Network, which is hosting the match, did not say how many people voted in the first round, though the company said...
...sized, skinny and affable to the point of goofiness, Rudenstine is hardly the imposing figure one might expect from a giant in American higher education...
With Internet companies popping up like dandelions after a summer rain--and being plucked for public offerings even before they start to flower--it's no wonder full-grown companies have been hard at work on their own Web gardens. Last week Walt Disney Co. became the latest media giant wanting to convert its Internet assets into a growth stock...
...after balls, as long as they're hot pink. He walks on all fours--a major cybernetic achievement, I'm told. He wags his tail freely and waves a paw cheerily. He can spin his limbs around, get to his feet when he's lying on his back--another giant leap for robotkind--and take a virtual leak. But AIBO can be willful too. His eyes go red if you pat him too hard. If he can't quite reach his hot-pink ball, he will freak out. And if you take the ball away, he pauses for a second...