BEVERLY - The robot glides past the beeping heart monitor, past a row of patients supine on their electric beds, past the beehive of the nurses’ station. The sleek, metallic body, dusky blue, stops outside Room 9 and slowly rolls through the doorway. (Boston Globe, 12:36 a.m.)
The Department of Justice yesterday said that it has launched a formal antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement over the Google Inc. project to scan millions of books into a digital format. (Boston Globe, 7/2/09)
In its first day as a publicly traded company, LogMeIn Inc.’s shares climbed more than 26 percent from their opening-day price. The Woburn-based maker of software that lets users remotely control their computers sold 6.7 million shares at $16 in an offering backed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays Capital. (Boston Globe, 7/2/09)
After years of wasting our time with built-in cameras, music players, and casual games, cellphone makers are finally giving us something we really need: one plug to charge them all. Next year, the world’s leading phone manufacturers will adopt a universal interface, so that one power adapter will charge any phone. (Boston Globe, 7/1/09)
NEW YORK - Software maker LogMeIn Inc. priced shares in its initial public offering yesterday for $16, at the top of its estimate range, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said. (Boston Globe, 6/30/09)