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Hewlett-Packard is getting out of the business it began with: making measuring devices. "Sentimentally, it was a very hard decision," says CEO Lew Platt--not least because "I spent more than half my career in measurements." But measuring devices had come to account for only 17% of HP's volume, and a collapse in Asian markets turned them into a drag on overall profits. Those now come mainly from computers and related equipment, but HP got into that field as a kind of sideline and, with its attention divided, has long been regarded as trailing more innovative rivals...
BARBIE STRIKES AGAIN As if there weren't enough Barbie paraphernalia already, HP's Apollo division has unveiled the first Barbie-theme printer, the P-1220, in "mist gray with glitter pink accents." When released in July, it will come with Barbie Magic Hair Styler software and heart- and flower-shaped decals. Unfortunately, the $80 printer is not much more than a pretty face. It prints a sluggish 1.5 pages per minute in color, or 3.5 pages in black-and-white. At least kids will have something cute to look at while they wait...
...Inexpensive flatbed scanners often come with slide attachments, but their resolution is too low to pick up tiny details and subtle hues. A dedicated slide scanner like HP's $499 PhotoSmart S20, right, offers 2,400-dpi resolution for sharper results. Another choice, Olympus' ES-10 ($399), has an optional adapter for APS film...
There exists a paradigm of the perfect economy, a place where a dismal scientist may even lay down his HP-19B calculator because analysis is superfluous in a land where supply and demand are calibrated, inflation is checked, growth steady, the workforce fully employed and the stock market bullish. For the moment, the U.S. may be that perfect economy, and that means the greatest challenge for Larry Summers, 44, the new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, will be not to muck things...
Want to write a thesis? First consider the last-minute costs: Thesis paper, acid-free: $13.50/100 sheets Printer ink: $99.95(Mac), $139.95 (HP) Zip disks: $29.99/2 Index cards: $1.69 Post-It TM page Markers: 3.99 Highlighters: $1.19 Coffee: about $1/cup...