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...generation of artists painted what they saw, rejecting abstractions and bucolic panoramas in favor of the edgy cityscapes of the new age. The exhibit opens with a monumental oil and collage by American Tom Wesselmann depicting a towering six-pack of Royal Crown Cola, a fat loaf of Sunbeam bread and a can of Libby's beef stew obscuring a view of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. That jarring juxtaposition embodies a fundamental tenet of Pop: that the everyday artifacts of consumer society defined a new aesthetic, stretching traditional conceptions of appropriate subjects and blurring the distinction between high...
...means of text, buttons, touch screens, voice or sensors while driving. Is it a dream come true (Time in 1944 reported on an amphibious futuristic auto that let you "plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead"), or an attempt to stand out from the pack? Telematics can make driving easier and safer: voice activation means eyes stay on the road. Viasat and Tegaron both contact emergency services when prompted by a car's crash sensor and send help to its precise location. And nothing could be safer than driving the Buick Bengal concept car. Voice-activated...
Handspring's Dubinsky remains unfazed. "We're used to people saying, 'Oh, Sony's entering the market. It's over, pack your bags,'" she says. "But that hasn't happened." It's likely the market will become more segmented, with Microsoft and Research in Motion homing in on corporate users, Sony targeting upscale consumers, and Handspring and Palm attacking from all angles. But Palm still has the most to lose. "The onus is on Palm to continue to innovate in its design and operating system," says IDC's Slawsby. Let the hand-to-hand combat begin...
...ways to cut costs and increase profit margins. One expense jumped out: the cost of shipping supplies that she was buying at her nearby Staples. She decided to go directly to the manufacturer to order bubble bags, self-sealing bags made of bubble wrap that she used to pack items...
...Tuesday evening. And the vote on "non-severability" - due as early as Wednesday or Thursday - still looms. But backers of McCain-Feingold (and it's interesting to note that buzz-worthy frosh John Edwards, Democrat of North Carolina, has lately been putting himself at the head of this pack) are ending all their press conferences with words like "very optimistic...