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`Lorraine Wheeler, 33
`Codes software that makes handheld computers handier
`Botzam
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`Lorraine Wheeler is forever moving on to the next big
`thing. As a 22-year-old software engineer at GE
`Medical Systems, she devised a process to improve
`the signal-to-noise ratio of magnetic-resonance imaging. Her patented
`innovation helped clarify results for doctors who rely on such images to
`diagnose disease. Then, with a mere $5,000, the 27-year-old Wheeler
`founded Actual software above a pizza shop in Andover, MA, and created
`MultiMail, one of the first e-mail programs for Palm handhelds. With
`MultiMail’s, business travelers could use their personal digital assistants to
`send and receive e-mail on the road. Upon its release in 1998, MultiMail’s
`free version was downloaded 1,000 times per hour, and the full-featured
`version was so successful that Palm eventually bought Actual Software for
`$4 million. In 2002, Wheeler founded Botzam. The startup , housed in more
`comfortable commercial digs in North Billerica, MA, is developing new
`applications, including software that lets users back up their handheld data
`on removable storage cards. “I’m interested in pure innovation,” Wheeler
`says. “I follow the market wherever it moves.”
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