It's now called Verathon.

The name change also reflects a new focus at the 22-year-old medical instrument maker, whose flagship product is the BladderScan device for bladder volume measurement.

In January it expanded into the anesthesiology market with the acquisition of Saturn Biomedical Systems, a Vancouver, B.C., manufacturer of the GlideScope video laryngoscope ("for fast, easy intubations.")

Verathon is a combination of veritas and marathon, intended to imply truth and endurance.

Aside from the goofy name, the Sooloos looks perfect if you have 12 grand to spend on a digital music system.

I'll bet clever folks could build a similar system for under $2,000 using Windows Vista, which has a slick media player and supports touch-screen controls.

A 17-inch iMac is pretty close today for just $1,500, but its internal drive capacity maxes out at 500 gigabytes.

Can PC-based systems ever have the great industrial design of the Sooloos? Maybe, maybe not. But the PC's evolving interface and falling storage costs really should make the Sooloos-type experience accessible to the mainstream.

I want one of these, for $1,200.

Stocks of Indian IT companies took a huge hit in May, but Infosys seems to be doing fine.

Q2 earnings at the Bangalore-based services giant were up 42 percent over the same period last year, to $746 million, according to its quarterly report out today.

Earnings per share were 36 cents, up from 25 cents a year ago.

Next year's growth was forecasted to be around 41 percent, surpassing $3 billion in sales.

Infosys also increased its workforce by 7,741, growing to 66,150 -- nearly as big as Microsoft.

One project that boosted the quarter: Helping a big but unnamed U.S. cable company develop quadruple-play services -- cable, telephony, wireless and broadband.

Here's a look at how INFY has pulled back from the May downturn.

If you have a phone and PC with Bluetooth wireless capability, that is.

The Bluetooth consortium introduced its new "Transsend" Web-to-device technology today at the Digital Life show in New York.

Web pages can add a Bluetooth icon that visitors can click to transfer a chunk of data -- a restaurant's site could beam over a map to a customer's phone, for instance.

The industry group promoting Bluetooth describes Transsend as a "client-server application that allows Internet content such as maps, addresses, phone numbers and other text and images to be wirelessly transferred from a Bluetooth-enabled PC to another mobile Bluetooth device such as a phone or PDA."

Bluetooth seems like a great way to get rid of the jumble of different wires needed to connect PCs and devices but it has never become universal. I wonder if it's too expensive or complicated for hardware manufacturers.

Great New York Times piece on Yahoo! today, but I think I've read that story before.

Here's the template: Start with anecdote about glamorous new tech company outmaneuvering yesterday's Wall Street darling, then list the symptoms of age: the older company has become too big and bureacratic; its growth rate has slowed, its stock has fallen, recruiting is tougher and some notable employees are jumping ship.

I'm not trying to rip on the reporter -- I've written similar stories about Microsoft for years.

Stay tuned, Google will eventually start getting the treatment, probably by 2008.