Beatnik Inc

Beatnik Inc., whose technology integrates music and sound into Web sites, filed to raise as much as $63.25 million in an initial stock sale. The company, started by musician Thomas "Dolby" Robertson, predicts Web sites one day will have soundtracks as elaborate as those of movies and said it hopes to profit from the shift. Robertson, best known for his 1980s hit "She Blinded Me With Science," claims his company's technology can interweave sound with the text and graphics of a Web site.

Beatnik Inc., whose technology integrates music and sound into Web sites, filed to raise as much as $63.25 million in an initial stock sale. The company, started by musician Thomas "Dolby" Robertson, predicts Web sites one day will have soundtracks as elaborate as those of movies and said it hopes to profit from the shift. Robertson, best known for his 1980s hit "She Blinded Me With Science," claims his company's technology can interweave sound with the text and graphics of a Web site.

A large U.S. corporation recently handed down an unusual edict to its employees: Stop bowling in the office. It seems that during staff meetings, too many workers were quietly rolling animated bowling balls down virtual alleys on their cell phones. That's one of the simple forms of amusement being ushered in by a new generation of handsets that are equipped to entertain as well as communicate.