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...Basically, the BeOS is an operating system designed for working with media: audio, video and images. It boots quickly, doesn't crash, runs applications rapidly, and is good at handling very large file sizes. In 1998, Intel invested in Be, Inc., to the tune of about $10 million. Why would a company that's traditionally been seen as Microsoft's Siamese twin pour that much money into a Microsoft competitor? To hedge its bets. MORE...
...prep courses for the SATs; the Princeton Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house to accommodate all the tutors. "It's getting pretty grim out there," says Dave Berry, president of College Prep Services, Inc. "Colleges want to see that high school students aren't sitting around watching Seinfeld reruns all summer...
...paints its own steel. Rundell boasts that "typically we are able to double the profit performance" of any company NCI takes over. Financial analysts praise NCI's managers for resisting all temptations to stray from their anti-conglomerate pattern. In all their acquisitions, says Bill Baker of Dain Raucher Inc., "they have never been seduced into areas they know nothing about...
Luckily, the consumer in need of a home robot has a more affordable (and potentially more useful) choice: Cye, a "personal robot" created by Probotics Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pa. About the size of a toaster oven, Cye made its debut on the Web www.personalrobots.com) where it goes for $695. An optional vacuum cleaner and wagon add size and dollars...
...essayist Roger Rosenblatt is editor at large of Time Inc. He is the author of Children...