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...Amount Republican Michael Huffington spent per vote in California in the previous record-setting Senate race, losing his $27.5 million...
Corporate takeovers get all the attention. How could they not? Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake. Then there's the rock-star status of dealmakers like GE's Jack Welch. But the ugly truth about mergers, running at a record clip again this year, is that a great many don't work out. It should be no surprise, then, that amid so much merger mayhem, company divestitures are running high as well...
...digital video recorder is basically a big, fat hard drive like the one in your computer, only it's hooked up to your TV. It's like a VCR, only digital. It automatically records whatever you're watching, all the time, so you can rewind, pause, slo-mo or instant-replay live TV. If you're watching something you've already recorded, you can skip ahead through the commercials. Best of all, the DVR has a built-in channel guide, so you can tell it to record a show, and it will do so without having to be told...
...give credit where credit is due, ReplayTV does deliver what it promises. If someone were gauche enough to call during Buffy, I could simply pause it. If I double-click on The Simpsons in the onscreen Channel Guide, ReplayTV knows to record it every time it's on, any time, any channel. That's a beautiful thing. The latest ShowStopper comes with 60 hours of recording time (at the lowest-quality setting), and that's more than enough for even the most obsessive Homerphile...
...RECORD Secretaries who take dictation may have gone the way of three-piece suits and two-martini lunches, but Sony's new digital voice-to-print recorder ($300 including software) fills the gap. The MS1 records up to 131 minutes of brilliant ideas. Instead of a cassette, it uses a tiny memory card. Pop it into your PC (with an adapter), and the software transcribes your words into a text file. You can even highlight the transcribed text and listen for errors. They're working on the martinis...