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When Dash was growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, there weren't many black role models in corporate America. Today, while some 200 black men and women have reached the upper echelons of FORTUNE 500 companies--up from a handful a decade ago--only two African Americans have ever been named CEO of any of these firms: Kenneth Chenault of American Express and Franklin Raines of Fannie Mae. Prominent blacks like Maytag's Lloyd Ward have resigned or been relieved of their corporate commands. In the Internet world, the minuscule number of black chief execs was prominently diminished...
...define an invention as something new, created by human ingenuity. It is not a discovery of a natural phenomenon that already exists. It is not merely a product of convergence, technology's latest buzz word used to describe the combining of existing technologies. Yet as our first two choices illustrate, the art of making two or more technologies work together often requires a new invention--even if it is just a complex line of computer code...
While Ricoh was first to market with a Web-enabled digital camera, the competition is coming on strong. Two California software companies, FlashPoint and ActiveShare, are working to make Web-coding capabilities standard features on the internal operating systems of digital cameras. The companies have begun testing wireless solutions with insurance companies and Web auction houses. By next year, Internet-ready SprintPCS phones will be able to hook up to a Kodak DC290 digital camera and send pictures to a Sprint website. Polaroid is developing a $350 digital camera with a built-in modem for release next spring. The first...
Even more promising is the so-called Bluetooth technology (named after a 10th century Viking king), which uses short-range radio waves to enable any two devices to transmit data up to 328 ft. Expected to take off next year, Bluetooth will allow users of any digital camera to send images to their cell phones. The phones can then beam the files to a website. This will eliminate the need for a pricey wireless modem card (currently about $400), making the cameras much more economical...
...time, eight years ago, PET (positron emission tomography) machines, which can reveal subtle metabolic processes such as tumor growth, and CT (computerized tomography) scanners, which show precise anatomical details, were already in widespread medical use. But doctors, especially cancer surgeons, were often frustrated in their attempts to match the two different scans to determine, for example, the precise location of a tumor in relation to an organ or to the spinal column. There seemed to be no better way than simply "eyeballing" the two separate images...