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...replace pen and paper. Then U.S. Robotics introduced its Pilot, the first palmtop to cram addresses and a daily calendar into a simple, 5-oz. electronic tablet. With a penlike stylus, users can jot down notes on the screen and transfer them to a desktop PC program like Lotus Organizer. ($249; Palm Computing...
...trickier problem. Although IBM annually sells $12.6 billion worth of code, twice as much as Microsoft, it isn't seen as much of a software innovator, something that's considered essential in the age of the Internet. Gerstner tried to repair that view with his $2.9 billion purchase of Lotus last year, but skepticism remains. "They're not really innovating on the Internet," says Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Forrester Research. "They're being outmaneuvered by Netscape and Microsoft...
Pilot also comes with a cable that connects it to a PC, letting users shuttle appointments, to-do lists and addresses back and forth from Pilot to programs like Lotus Organizer and Sidekick...
...club sponsored the 1989 Harvard Conference for Young Entrepreneurs, which featured Mitchell Kapor, creator of the fast-growing Lotus Development Company...
...calculate complex mathematical progressions, and as a grownup he figured out that raw computing power was growing and the price dropping so quickly that one day every office and home in America would have a computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...