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...heyday of lacquer ware is long gone, and in recent years most Japanese retailers watched helplessly as lacquer became unfashionable and sales plummeted. But one boutique that is bucking the trend is Tokyo's Yamada Heiando, a family-run business that has overhauled product lines to meet modern tastes. In addition to the traditional banquet trays and soup bowls, Yamada Heiando offers slick accessories for the urban sophisticate, from penholders to mouse pads...
Separately, The New York Times reported on Friday that a judge in California said that he “was leaning toward permitting Apple to issue subpoenas” to three companies, including Think Secret, that Apple alleges illegally released information about a forthcoming Apple product called Asteroid. Apple wants the courts to force the websites to reveal the identities of the sources of trade information...
...hospital. In fact, Ideo is developing something of an expertise in medical reform, also working with clients like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to create mini-Ideos--permanent design-research facilities that work like prototype factories within the organizations. The Mayo facility has already created one Ideo-like product: a check-in kiosk based on those e-ticket machines at airports so that Mayo patients don't have to wait in line just to sign...
...Kelley's outlook on business so different? To hear him tell it, being around academia--Kelley got tenure to teach product design part time at Stanford's engineering school in 1990--gives him the necessary distance and perspective. "If you always stay at a company, this barbaric businessness overtakes you," he says. "You're always in execution mode. Here [at Stanford] you get to think more strategically about your profession." Or, as he tells his students, "enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of flawed intellects...
...Grip), which it claims will help it revive market share to 70% by the end of the year. Yet Moses' PaperPro has come on strong, selling 1 million units in its first six months in a market that sells 25 million annually. At the Staples chain, which offers Moses' product under the One-Touch brand, sales average 20 units per store each week--10 times what the chain expected. "We respect what they've done," says Swingline vice president Jeffrey Ackerberg. "There's a natural need to make staplers easier to use." But, he adds, "there's not a natural...