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...besides working on a memoir, Bernstein is now finishing a string quartet and "toying" with a concerto for an Ondes Martenot, an electrically driven French keyboard instrument, and another for piano and orchestra that harks back to his early days as a concert pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Achievers: Scoring High: Movie composer Elmer Bernstein is Mr. Versatility | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...confidence in marketing and engineering led Kim to order a redesign of Samsung's Nexio handheld device. It was successful in Korea, but Kim's reading of the market research convinced him that it needed a better screen, a keyboard and a wireless LAN connection before its U.S. debut in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Kim: Global marketing chief of Samsung | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Logitech has 50 products on the drawing board for next year. Beyond the usual PC gizmos, De Luca is betting on a new line of peripherals for game consoles, mobile phones, PDAs and TV set-top boxes. A cloth PDA case that unfolds into a keyboard made its debut earlier this year, and the latest offering is a pen that captures handwritten notes in digital form. The global market for such devices--what De Luca calls "the last inch between human fingers and the digital world"--is about $8 billion, enough to let Logitech grow rapidly over the next five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrino De Luca: CEO of Logitech International | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...tablet PC also allows text input via the touchscreen's virtual keyboard - a necessary alternative, because Microsoft's handwriting-recognition software remains irritatingly inconsistent. The Acer works better than the Newton, but it interpreted my handwritten phrase "Jack ran down the hill" as "Jade full dam its lull." I may have earned a C- in second-grade penmanship class, but my handwriting isn't that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Pencils, No More Bics | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...fairness, the software is right more often than it's wrong. Still, that isn't the point. Inputting data and operating the computer with a stylus instead of a keyboard and mouse only seems to make a simple task unnecessarily cumbersome, not to mention more expensive. Tablet PCs are selling for about $2,000, roughly a $400 premium over comparably equipped conventional laptops. For the extra cash, you do get the new Microsoft Journal program, which allows you to write and organize notes in a spiffy "digital-ink" format that replicates real writing. You can change colors, use a highlighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Pencils, No More Bics | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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