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Nowak said he first met Epstein four years ago when the two were introduced by Princeton University trustee and former Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Nathan Myrvolb. Since then, the two have formed a close friendship, and Epstein has frequently funded Nowak’s studies—to the tune of $500,000, according to New York Magazine...
Born in an Irish farming village, Gibbons, 44, has landed near the top of Microsoft's Internet business. She has helped MSN, the company's Web-portal service, become Europe's top entry point to the Internet, partly by allying MSN with mobile providers. As MSN's vice president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, she will roll out access in 16 countries this year. Gibbons is a self-described culture vulture who frequents art galleries and Friday-night Shakespeare in London...
Meanwhile, Big Blue has more tightly embraced Linux, the grass-roots operating system that Palmisano originally championed inside the company and that is becoming a legitimate threat to both Unix and Microsoft's Windows. IBM's research division, in which the company invests $5 billion a year, is also trying to come up with an "autonomic" technology, so that complex systems can fix themselves, and IBM can serve up technology without spending so much on labor...
Also on the move is TiVo-style technology. Intel, SonicBlue and Microsoft all brought prototypes of personal video players (PVPs). No larger than a Walkman, these PVPs will store more than 70 hours of TV programs on internal hard discs and display them on 4-in. screens. The shows can be beamed to the players over a wireless Internet network. There's no price tag or release date yet, but Hollywood execs--already in a tizzy over TiVo--might want to lay in extra supplies of Tylenol...
...Jobs' boldest move was to aim two slingshots directly at Bill Gates. Safari is a speedy, free Web browser with a Google toolbar; it leaves Mac owners few reasons to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (half a million have already tried an early version). And Keynote, a $99 slide-show program built for Jobs' own presentations, should steal a few million converts from Microsoft PowerPoint. Sometimes the smaller guy has a big advantage...