Steinway reports sales increase.
Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in sales for the quarter ending September 27, 2003, amounting to $83 million. In addition, its EBITDA increased 23 percent, amounting to $11 million. Piano sales for the quarter increased 19 percent to $42 million from $36 million...

The industrial-strength humanist: J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built.
The twentieth century was the century of experts, when the very word amateur came to be spoken with a curled lip. It was also the century of sorting firings out, an activity always regarded, for some reason, as scientific. As it began, the Nobel Prizes were established, awarded not...

Poly 900NF3-FX.
Poly 900NF3-FX Polywell Computers www.polywell.com Star rating: 5 stars out of 5 Price: $4,399 ***** 20004 cadalyst LABS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED The Poly 900 NF3-FX from Polywell Computers achieved very good scores on all of our benchmark tests....

StarStation FX.
StarStation FX TriCAD/CAM Systems www.tricadcam.com Star rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Price: $3,995 Tri CAD/CAM Systems sent a StarStation FX system housed in a compact, heavy, matte-black midsized tower case with a lockable swing-away drive bay cover. The...

Casio, Inc. Announces an Educational Technology Curriculum Training For Teachers Nationwide.
DOVER, N.J., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio, Inc. of Dover, NJ is pleased to announce Educational Technology Curriculums "etc ... ", which consists of Curriculum-oriented workshops for teachers designed by Clemson University and University of Dallas. The target of each will be to help integrate technology into...

Player Piano: Kevin Pratt on museum design.
WHILE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AT THE Harvard Design School are hardly shouting "The king is dead, long live the king!" a recent readjustment of architectural priorities within the tightly knit world of museum trustees and directors has had one obvious consequence: Rem Koolhaas is out; Renzo Piano is in. Just...

'Casio Mobile' Wireless Web Portal Now in Service.
Customized Service Designed for Casio Users DOVER, N.J., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio, Inc., Dover, N.J., announced today that its new "Casio Mobile" wireless web portal is now in service. The new Casio Mobile wireless Internet web portal provides users with a suite...

Limelight: the definitive guide to the Sarasota social scene.
winter wonderland Who says there's no snow in Florida? There was that and more winter wonder at the Mistletoe in Manhattan Mistletoe Ball for the New College Library Association. How about that Rockefeller Plaza skating rink (courtesy Dorothy Hamill's coach Bobby Denard), complete with skating Santas and...

Highly Anticipated MP3.com Development Conference Coming To San Diego April 19-20.
Space Still Available for Conference Shaping the Future of Digital Music SAN DIEGO, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday and Friday of this week (April 19-20), programmers and developers from around the world will converge in San Diego at MP3.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MPPP) headquarters for...

Baldwin Piano Reports First Quarter Results.
MASON, Ohio, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Baldwin Piano & Organ Company (Nasdaq: BPAO) today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2001. First quarter sales were down 22 percent to $15.6 million, from $19.9 million for the same period a year ago. Lower sales were...