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...headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...
Lifefx, the Newton, Mass., start-up that produces Facemail, is convinced there are broad commercial applications. One reason e-commerce is floundering, the company says, is that buying over the Internet lacks the human touch. But what if you went to the Nike website and Michael Jordan greeted you by name, waited on you and personally closed the sale? The company is also talking about using Facemail to make greeting cards and living wedding albums. And it is negotiating with Whirlpool about embedding the technology in a computer screen on a fridge. Then if Mom can't be home when...
...gadgets, advertise an inordinate amount on the E! pre-show, sending the implicit and quite accurate message that if you are spending a weekend afternoon watching, not just Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner leading up to Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Todd Newton and Cindy Hom leading up to Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner, but Michael Castner and Linda Grasso - the fourth string of E! anchors - leading up to Todd Newton and Cindy Hom... well, you obviously watch so damn much TV that you are in need of electronic assistance...
Making matters worse, Jackson's comments were not particularly judicious. According to Auletta's book, the judge compared Microsoft to the Newton Street Crew, a Washington gang over whose murder and drug-trafficking cases he had presided. "I am now under no illusions that miscreants will realize that other parts of society view them that way," Jackson told Auletta. He also criticized Bill Gates for having a "Napoleonic" view of himself and Microsoft...
...Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, who lives in Newton and has no access to public transportation, said that staff members often feel obligated to come in to work despite hazardous weather conditions...