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Suddenly a new medium -- and a new market opportunity -- has opened up in the place where Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the information highway intersect. Games are part of a rapidly evolving world of interactive amusements so new that nobody knows what to call them: Multimedia? Interactive motion pictures? The New Hollywood? And like the proverbial blind men feeling their way around the elephant, everybody involved in it has a different idea of what this lucrative beast is, depending on what part of it touches them. Hollywood executives tend to see the emerging market as a way to distribute movies...
...series of simple experiments which lasted just two weeks, scientists created a silicon surface which was hydrophobic, or water-resistant, at one end and hydrophilic, or attracted to water, at the other. When a drop of water was placed on the titled surface with the hydrophilic end up, the drop "climbed" the hill...
...water's flow, Biebuyck says, is analogous to the movement of molecules across the lipid membranes of human cells. Such membranes are sprinkled with proteins which are hydrophobic on one end and hydrophilic on the other, like the configuration of the silicon surface...
...Hobbit chip for portable devices -- will let users send faxes and electronic mail by writing on the small display screen with a special pen. It will also transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer's similar Newton model and Motorola's Dragon. To celebrate, Warwick gave the team that developed the Hobbit a symbolic gift: a desk clock...
...former president of the Sea-Land ocean-shipping concern, as chief financial officer; Jerre Stead, former chief executive of electrical-equipment maker Square D, as head of the computer division; and Richard Bodman, of the Comsat satellite-communications consortium, as top strategist. Allen also brought in managers from small Silicon Valley firms to help teach AT&T's stodgy staff the newest tricks of the trade...