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CEOs are also paying with their job for any big strategic failure. The purchase of a dog called the Learning Co. bit Mattel CEO Jill Barad in the career; she resigned under duress in February. In her farewell speech, Barad described the acquisition's effects as "devastating" to her toy company's "overall performance...
Such seamless communication is fast winning over everyone from toy retailer FAO Schwarz--which has put a downloadable IM link to customer service on its website--to the U.S. Navy, which uses the Sametime system to connect a 16-ship battle group in the Atlantic Fleet. Closer to home, long-distance provider Sprint uses software designed by Bantu Inc. to enable employees to chat while watching online PowerPoint displays. Messages can also be sent and received by a variety of wireless devices, including cellular phones...
...Butterly's toy-sized ceramics successfully translate similar ideas into three-dimensional space. Each of her pieces is based around a roughly cylindrical blob of clay frozen in a state of writhing, blooming and collapsing-intricate and really quite elegant. In both cases, however, the "Asian" influence is a touch heavy-handed: Burckhardt seems to like cherry blossoms and dragons, while his wife incorporates those little bearded toothy-smiley dogs into a few of her pieces. The press release calls them Chinese Fu dogs, but, with Butterly's vivid glazes, flea market chintz is a more accurate description...
...components." But the guessing in Japan is that the company botched the production of graphics chips. Skeptics in the gaming community are flooding the Internet with charges that Sony has created an artificial shortage in a calculated attempt to make PS2 this year's Furby, the gotta-have-it toy of the holiday season. But Sony says it isn't so. "It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that by limiting our audience we would successfully be pursuing our business goals," insists Andrew House, a Sony vice president...
...best computer toy I ever lost was a demo disc of PC viruses I came across about a decade back. The software was a sort of digital rogues' gallery, intended to "educate" the user by demonstrating how certain bugs behaved. Activate the "Cascade" demo, for instance, and letters would pop out of your text like rotten teeth and collect in a pile at the bottom of your screen. These domesticated viruses weren't infectious like their cousins in the wild. If you just removed the floppy from the PC, the mischief would cease...