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	General Magic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed new kind of handheld communications device they called a "personal intelligent communicator", which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications.
		General Magic was nearly clairvoyant in their ability to predict the way people would use technology (predicting things such as ubiquitous email, everyone owning/using cell phones and devices, etc).
		General Magic was the first company to employ a large number of linguists to fine tune the human interaction and make it seem very real.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Magic (1297 words)

	Orlando Magic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the Magic missed that year's playoffs, because they were tied with the Indiana Pacers for the 8th (and final) playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and because the Pacers owned the tiebreaker.
		In the playoffs, the Magic defeated the Boston Celtics, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, and the Indiana Pacers, advancing to the NBA Finals.
		Their playoff push was hampered by injuries in the last quarter of the season: a season-ending broken wrist for sixth man Hedo Turkoglu, a shin injury to Grant Hill, a rib cage injury to Nelson, and a three-game suspension to Francis for allegedly kicking a photographer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando_Magic (2160 words)

	General Magic's Real Assets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When General Magic first appeared, their chief asset was not their PDAs, which were slow even compared to the Newton.
		General Magic apparently saw Telescript only as a part of Magic Cap, and so it didn't get as much exposure at it probably deserved for what was (and still is) a revolutionary paradigm.
		But what surprises me about this announcement is that General Magic's new chief asset is not this "network service", but an implementation of their agent technology in Java called Odyssey.
	www.scripting.com /stories/felter/generalmagicsrealassets.html (261 words)

	News - General Magic, Inc. to Cease Operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A small team of General Magic employees will be retained for 60 to 120 days to manage the sale of the company's assets and the resolution of obligations to the company's creditors.
		General Magic notes that this press release contains forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievement to differ materially from any results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these statements.
		These include, among others, risks and uncertainties concerning the cessation of General Magic's business, and the adequacy of any proceeds to be recognized upon the sale of the company's assets to satisfy the claims of creditors.
	www.itsa.org /ITSNEWS.NSF/4e0650bef6193b3e852562350056a3a7/10d07935fa8d330a85256c3900064245?OpenDocument (466 words)

	Electronic News: General Magic may weave its spell yet - General Magic expects to continue after AT&T pullout - Company ...
		General Magic is announcing two new software products for mobile access to the World Wide Web, Internet E-mail and corporate intranets using portable communicators based on the company's Magic Cap operating system, which integrates not only E-mail but fax, telephone paging and infrared beaming.
		General Magic is currently developing software that will let MCW operate as a client to common computer network applications, both private and public.
		General Magic said MCW has the potential to generate a healthy revenue stream, because it will be offered directly to consumers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2114_v42/ai_18241023 (1442 words)

	2.04: Bill and Andy's Excellent Adventure II
		And then there was a whole new generation of engineers, people in their twenties who reminded Bill and Andy of themselves when they had worked on the Mac team.
		It turns out that the General Magic mission is a long-haul deal, and not only because the initial cost limits the user base to gizmo nuts and corporate users.
		When they started General Magic, Bill and Andy felt that they and their fellow senior citizens in the forty-plus demographic would not engage in the "90-Hour-A-Week-And-Loving-It" frenzy of the Macintosh experience.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.04/general.magic_pr.html (7342 words)

	No escape act for General Magic \| The Register
		General Magic Inc, a provider of speech recognition technology, is to cease operations in the face of dwindling revenues and its failure either to obtain additional financing or find a merger partner.
		General Magic is a comparative veteran, having been formed in the early 1990s by former Apple Computer Inc staff.
		General Magic saw great potential in the Serengeti computer network service, which was designed to integrate email, faxes, address book, calendar, news and stock quote information in one place, accessible through the phone or via a browser.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2002/09/19/no_escape_act_for_general (449 words)

	Making Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Every Magic Cap object descends from class Object, thus inheriting the memory management commands, the ability to be encoded and decoded for transmission to another communicator, tools for reading and writing its own data, and debugging code.
		Magic Cap objects are structures that define both data elements and a set of functions that operate on the data.
		Magic Cap packages are written in C with some object extensions, so executing an operation looks just like a standard C function call.
	www.mactech.com /articles/mactech/Vol.11/11.05/MakingMagic (5393 words)

	News - OnStar to Implement General Magic's magicTalk Enterprise Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"General Magic continues to be a valuable partner and our adoption of their magicTalk Enterprise Platform improves our ability and increases our speed of delivery of voice services in the telematics marketplace," said OnStar's Don Butler, vice president, New Business Development.
		General Magic is a leading voice infrastructure software company that provides enterprise-class software and supporting voice dialog design and hosting services that enable companies to quickly and efficiently provide anytime, anywhere access to information and services over the telephone.
		General Magic's VoiceXML and J2EE™-based solutions enable enterprises to easily integrate voice access into enterprise applications using a broad selection of speech recognition technologies and telephony interfaces.
	www.itsa.org /ITSNEWS.NSF/4e0650bef6193b3e852562350056a3a7/b93afa82e989c3d785256c0700073a27?OpenDocument (577 words)

	General Magic's Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		General Magic's Telescript, a proprietary language for creating mobile agents, has been the industry's most widely adopted agent system for several years.
		A more serious problem with the audit trail mechanism in beta 2, which we are sure General Magic will address in a future release, is the fact that an agent whose audit trail is directed to a file cannot migrate at all, with attempted migrations causing exceptions due to the non-serializable nature of files.
		General Magic has not yet determined whether or not Odyssey will become a commercial product - they have specifically prohibited commercial deployment of Odyssey-based applications, though they provide a contact address for potential licensees of the technology.
	www.cs.caltech.edu /~kiniry/projects/papers/IEEE_Agent/agent_paper/node4.html (879 words)

	General Magic details strategy \| CNET News.com
		Chairman and CEO Steve Markman, who has slashed General Magic's payroll from 280 to 138 since September, indicated at the Internet Showcase conference that the company felt pressured by Wall Street and high-tech analysts to reveal more about the new strategy even though it's nowhere near ready for prime time.
		General Magic announced an alliance with Starfish Software, former Borland CEO Philippe Kahn's company, to incorporate Starfish's personal information manager software into the Serengeti service.
		In the meantime, General Magic must survive on $67 million in the bank as of December 31 plus paltry revenues from its Magic Cap operating system--version 3.0 is nearly finished for still-unannounced hardware partners--and Telescript, its now Java-savvy mobile agent technology.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-279332.html?legacy=cnet&st.ne.fd.mdh (717 words)

	General Magic Products :: magic tricks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The tips of a magic wand are removed to reveal both a marker and a pen in one!
		The ball is placed in the performers pocket, and then magically reappears under the cup.
		If you are looking for real world magic that you can carry with you at all times, enter the Dreamweaver.
	www.magictricks.co.uk /prodlist.asp?cat=misc (2372 words)

	Magic Service Desk - Helpdesk software, help desk products, and help desk tracking software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Magic Service Desk Suite is an easy-to-use and easy-to-implement browser-based support automation tool—designed specifically for the mid-sized business—which aligns people, processes, and technology to reduce support costs and improve efficiency.
		Magic Service Desk Suite and Magic Change Management are both built around the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and have been verified to be compatible with the core ITIL best practices.
		Magic Professional Services, training resources, and our consulting partners have ITIL expertise to help small and mid-size business with implementation and development of business processes.
	www.remedy.com /solutions/magic (434 words)

	General Magic
		A friendly, funny introduction to the art of magic, this complete reference for budding magicians features tricks that can be performed by absolute beginners without special props or much preparation.
		Enables magic enthusiasts to perform a variety of spontaneous tricks including the Coins a Go-Go, the Dissolving Knot, and the Bills from Nowhere, and offers tips on stage patter, presentation, and performance personalization.
		This book is great for the adult who's tired of those magic books that all have the same effects or that make you feel like an idiot when doing them.
	www.magictalk.com /amazon/general.htm (427 words)

	General Magic debuts voice application hosting
		General Magic Wednesday announced that it will offer hosting and professional services for MagicTalk, its voice platform for accessing the Internet.
		General Magic's professional services will include dialogue design, network management and operations, project management and programming support with Java, C++ and VoiceXML development, according to a written statement.
		General Magic, in Sunnyvale, Calif., can be reached at 408-774-4000 or at www.generalmagic.com.
	www.networkworld.com /news/2000/0705generalmagic.html (249 words)

	ceej: 15-Mar-98
		I was a technical writer at that point, reading Magic Cap's source code and writing about it for our developers.
		I was pretty sure that Magic had failed, but I had a lot more to learn still.
		It took General Magic a long time to clue in to that fact.
	www.blackbook.org /1998/03/980315.html (2465 words)

	General Magic calls its quits \| CNET News.com
		General Magic, a once-hot Silicon Valley company that seemed to change its business plan every couple of months, has finally called it quits.
		One of the first projects to emerge was Magic Cap OS for handhelds, which let people set their own rules for message alerts and acquiring information.
		By 1999, General Motors decided to tap the company for work on its OnStar service, which lets drivers get directions and other roadside assistance in their cars through a voice connection.
	news.com.com /2100-1040-958465.html (932 words)

	BYTE.com
		Although Magic Cap is optimized for the small LCD screens of PDAs, it will also run on desktop computers, either as the primary GUI or atop an existing one (much as Apple's At Ease runs atop System 7), such as the Mac or Windows.
		Magic Cap already runs on the Mac, and it can take advantage of the higher resolution a nd better color available on the screens of desktop computers.
		Magic Cap may resemble a cartoon, but it's simple enough for casual users and is a radical departure from toda y's GUIs.
	www.byte.com /art/9402/sec3/art1.htm (1157 words)

	Pen Computing Magazine: Archive: Issue 22: Columns - General Magic
		General Magic was once the company that users loved through thick and thin, but the Magic Cap operating system is playing to a "tough crowd" these days.
		Even an ex-employee of General Magic wrote me in a tone that conveyed sorrow for what he thought was the beginning of Magic Cap's inevitable demise.
		Many Magic Cap loyalists expressed their displeasure at General Magic (a company that was comprised of many ex-Apple Computer employees) jumping into bed with Microsoft.
	www.pencomputing.com /archive/PCM22/general_magic.html (756 words)

	Foolish Feature, 06/17/98: Stocks for Dad, General Magic Inc.
		General Magic is concentrating on commercializing Portico, a computerized, voice-recognizing assistant for workers away from the office.
		General Magic hasn't made any money yet and, in fact, reported a $28.4 million loss for the year ending December 1997, which translates into a loss of $1.20 a share.
		If General Magic succeeds in deploying the Portico service to mobile professionals, there will be some happy families.
	www.fool.com /features/1998/sp980617fathersdaygmgc.htm (788 words)

	Clown Antics: General Magic and Illusions, page 2
		The beads are spilled out into a bowl to show that they are all separate and unattached, and then dropped into the tube one at a time (a helper can be asked to assist in this part of the effect).
		A wave of your magic wand and the beads are tossed into the air, all joined together in a single strand!
		Basically, it's a large flip wallet picture frame, but the simple act of closing and opening the frame causes it to change one or both of the pictures inside, or even change the same picture several times through a series of changes.
	www.clownantics.com /generalmagic2.shtml (2109 words)

	General Magic and Starfish Software Announce Joint Technology Development Agreement
		Starfish will join General Magic's on-stage demonstration to show how their technology will be incorporated into General Magic's service.
		Additional risk factors are detailed in General Magic's 1996 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
		General Magic, Inc. was founded in 1990 and develops products and services that allow people to easily communicate with each other and obtain network-based information from wherever they are, using any type of communications device.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/107161&EDATE= (347 words)

	Ultimate Magic Network: Forums: General Magic
		I did it for a year or so 4 years back so i have a general grasp of some sleights etc. I was just wondering has anyone got any advice for me? i have a few tricks i picked up over time but i was wondering what are the best books and dvds to buy.
		I think it's important to have a sound grasp of the fundamental principles of magic as you'll encounter these same principles being used again and again.
		I have found that Videos/DVD's are great to learn magic from- mainly because you get to see what the effect looks like when it's performed properly and the moves and misdirection are much easier to follow than if you are holding a prop with one hand and trying to read a book with another!
	www.ultimatemagic.com /forums/read.php?f=1&i=584&t=571 (602 words)

	General Magic Folds Up Shop - 9/23/2002 - Wireless Week - CA245539 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		General Magic, a pioneer of voice application software and services, closed its doors Wednesday and began selling its assets, including its magicTalk Enterprise Platform and 35 patents and patent applications for voice user interface and agent technologies.
		General Motors will cover the costs of the service until it finds another vendor.
		Daniel Miller, senior vice president at the Kelsey Group, said General Magic's demise is unfortunate.
	www.wirelessweek.com /article/CA245539.html?spacedesc=News (167 words)

	Electronic News: General Magic throws it Cap into the Internet ring with new Presto! line - the Presto!Mail 1.5 e-mail ...
		General Magic's newly appointed president and COO Bob Kelsch said the new direction will foster significant changes for the Internet.
		AgentWare is a result of General Magic's purchase last week of all of the assets of Conterra Software, Inc., said Lucia Hicks-Williams, VP and GM of the Active Internet Products division at General Magic.
		And while the somewhat recent addition of Web guru Tony Rutkowski is a sign that indicates General Magic's serious play toward the Internet, the company's short-term success will hinge on the execution of their newfound strategy and the acceptance of their new technologies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2123_v42/ai_18449863 (1233 words)

	GamerFeed : News : General : Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Just as in the "Magic" card game, in "Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds" players will choose a duelist and any of Magic's five colors -- red, green, white, blue or fl -- to attempt to reduce their opponent's life to zero.
		"Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds" is now available at retail stores nationwide with an estimated retail price of $49.95 and an ESRB rating of "T" for Teen.
		Additional information about "Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds" can be found online at www.mtggame.com, which features downloadable and streaming game play movies, downloadable developer commentaries and strategies, screenshots, duelist information and much more.
	general.gamerfeed.com /gf/pr/4781 (857 words)

	Microprocessor Report: General Magic outlines alliances, product plans: 'Magic Cap' to enable 68300-based personal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		General Magic outlines alliances, product plans: 'Magic Cap' to enable 68300-based personal communications.
		Now that General Magic, the highly secretive Apple spinoff, has begun revealing its plans, Motorola's processor opportunity has become apparent: a 68300-family processor will be at the heart of the first personal commumcators that will run General Magic's forthcoming operating system and user interface, called Magic Cap (Communications Application Platform).
		General Magic was spun out of Apple Computer in 1990,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13485546&refid=holomed_1 (238 words)

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