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...will eat a bagel with peanut butter for dinner two nights in a row, then blow $10 on a fancy deli sandwich for lunch. I will scour Filene's Basement for $5 tights to wear with my $200 boots. I am even tempted to get a $99 color inkjet printer to go with my spiffy $2,500 PC. It all boils down to priorities. I don't need a great printer, merely a decent one. Just as the tights I wear under my boots are a private affair, most of the printing I do at home is for my eyes...
...sheaf of stapled-together pages covered in ink and distributed by snail mail. How ironic. How 20th century. Here she was, a brash entrepreneur in the brave new world of Web-based publishing, stuck with the old-fashioned job of selling ad space and shipping proofread pages to the printer...
...company was reportedly considering selling its debt-ridden financing operation, which lends money to prospective customers, to GE Capital. It has also discussed selling Xerox PARC, its research center in Silicon Valley, a source of great innovation--from the computer mouse to the graphical user interface and laser printer--but, thanks to the missteps of top brass, not a source of much income...
...will cutbacks address problems at the other end of the spectrum. For much of the past decade, even in the digital segment, Xerox has virtually owned the upper end of the market with its DocuTech line of copiers and high-speed printers--tanklike, six-figure machines that can spit out up to 180 pages a minute and are sold primarily to governments, universities, commercial printers and large corporations. Servicing and supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox...
COMBO CAMERA Do you love the convenience of digital cameras but miss that unforgettable instant-photo smell? Now you can have the best of both worlds with the C-211 Zoom, a new digital camera developed jointly by Olympus and Polaroid. It features a built-right-in printer that churns out copies of your digital snapshots on the spot, just like a conventional Polaroid. Its 2.1-megapixel images and 8MB memory card aren't too shabby, either. At $799 the C-211 is definitely a "prosumer" item, but it hints at better (and cheaper) things to come...