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...says. Yet last week Weill acknowledged for the first time that he had asked Grubman to "take a fresh look" at his neutral rating on AT&T just before Grubman turned bullish and AT&T awarded Citi a nearly $45 million investment-banking job taking public the company's wireless division. Investigators are interested in that link and the possibility that Weill sought Grubman's upgrade to win favor with AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong, who sits on Citi's board. In an e-mail , Grubman said that Weill needed the support of Armstrong to "nuke" Weill's then...
Harvard: Going wireless...
...years ago, IBM researcher Ismail Haritaoglu found himself at a Tokyo train station, unable to make heads or tails of the kanji lettering in the posted routes and timetables. Next time he'll be ready. His InfoScope snaps a picture of a street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation--all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips. INVENTOR IBM Almaden Research Center AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.almaden.ibm.com
...willing to face the cold, wet and occasionally shark-infested realities of scuba diving. That's why we need Spyfish, a gadget for divers who aren't quite ready to take the plunge. Spyfish is a battery-powered minisubmarine tricked out with cameras and floodlights and operated by wireless remote control. It trails a slender cable behind it that transmits whatever it sees back to a monitor topside, so you can rummage through Davy Jones' locker while sunning yourself on deck and sipping a mai tai. The product of years of research and testing, Spyfish is elegant and streamlined...