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Music is a game of averages, and Davis certainly doesn't bat .1000; Puff Daddy's solo album Forever is off to a slow start. But Arista has created enough hits to help lift the market share of its corporate parent BMG from 14% to 18%, second only to the Universal Music Group...
...guys want this technology? Check out the balance sheet. Firefly, one of the earliest bots, was swallowed by Microsoft for an undisclosed sum last year, as was CompareNet.com six months ago. Excite snapped up Jango.com for $35 million in stock. Lycos employs the services of a bot start-up called Frictionless...
...that? Because he believes most nonproprietary shopping agents aren't yet ready for prime time. But there's a whole host of cool new bot technologies out there that may force Amazon to think again. Take mySimon.com the most successful of the independent bot sites. It's about to start a service that will e-mail you whenever any online merchant lowers its price for a particular item to an amount you're willing to pay. Feeling frugal about that $150 pair of binoculars? No problem; sit back and wait until the market takes it down to $99. Then jump...
Some of these limits may change in the next decade as the technology improves. Summit recently acquired a start-up company that is working on a laser that uses radar initially developed for the Star Wars, or Strategic Defense Initiative, to track the eye during the operation. Currently doctors keep the eye steady by asking you to stare at a blinking red dot. If you suddenly shift your gaze, your surgeon can turn the laser off very quickly, but the doctor can't compensate for the small, involuntary eye movements we make all the time. These saccadic motions aren...
...FIND OUT HOW MUCH LASIK TRAINING YOUR DOCTOR HAS. Some ophthalmologists apparently start zapping corneas after little more than a weekend seminar. That might be enough preparation for a surgeon who is already skilled, but you may decide to select a more experienced doctor, such as a cornea specialist who has completed a year or two of additional training. Early studies also showed that the complication rates for individual surgeons underwent two significant drops, after 300 and 600 procedures. Proponents will tell you that LASIK training and technology are much better now and that today's doctors are perfectly proficient...