Word: desktop
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...Valentine's Day, he grew up lower middle class, the son of a Boston-area bookkeeper and secretary. Moving to New York after college, he made partner at Salomon Brothers. When the company fired him after a merger, he took his $10 million severance and plowed it into "Bloombergs," desktop financial-information monitors that became business-world must-haves; from there he built a radio, news and Internet empire. He counts the corporate and media elite as pals, and they describe him as a devoted father of two who gets along with his ex-wife, a man who quietly gives...
...digital imaging to insert virtual first-down lines (with corporate logos) in football games and completely photorealistic but nonexistent "signs" behind home plate at baseball games. Now it wants to move into reruns, with technology that can seamlessly insert 3-D objects into video footage--a Pepsi on a desktop, a Lexus at a curbside, a box of Tide on a countertop--where there was nothing before. PVI is negotiating to do placements in reruns of Law & Order and hopes to strike deals with other syndicators and even first-run shows. "You could sell a box of cereal...
...Harvard Business School Press has, since its conception in the 1920s, published materials that are distributed for the sole purpose of educating outside corporations. HBS Press also sells teaching software that companies have installed on desktops by the millions, such as ManageMentor, a program installed on millions of desktop computers to teach business leadership skills...
...Dies says most of the FBI's networks are twelve years old and do not support Internet browsers or even Microsoft Office applications. Two-thirds of the desktop computers in the FBI are up to eight years old, with green screens and ancient software. There are virtually no high speed Internet access lines: Some field offices, Dies says, are wired to the outside world with antique modems hooked to one or two conventional telephone lines. To cap it off, agents are still mailing paper 302s, or reports of interviews, to other field offices...
...images of the museum's Chinese teapot collection via laser photography. The pots can then be "touched" by anyone, anywhere - as long as they have some fancy (and still fairly bulky) equipment like the Phantom, produced by SensAble Technologies Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts. A stylus attached to the desktop device transmits force feedback to the user's fingertips. Following a model on your computer screen, you run the stylus over the "body" of the virtual teapot in the air and feel its curved, slick exterior. Move upward and you sense the contour...