Word: penpoint
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...seems particularly well positioned to benefit from the budding market for battery-powered, pen-based computers. Rather than make the machines itself, the company hopes it can license its elegant control software, called PenPoint, to computer manufacturers who would in turn pay Go royalties. Among the firms that are expected to begin shipping PenPoint models within the next six to 12 months: Grid, NCR and the biggest computer maker of them all, IBM. The machines will probably sell for $4,000 to $6,000. Microsoft -- the software giant based in Redmond, Wash., that has supplied IBM's operating systems...
...jiggles stock with irresponsible anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes's The Desperate Hours; instead of a hoodlum holding a family at gunpoint for 48 hours, the corporate raider holds an entire board of directors at penpoint for the same time span...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...