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...folks at Cisco and 3Com argue, of course, that everyone should get on an IP-based network--at once. Those who wait, they say, will fall behind competitors not only in cost savings but also in learning how to use a converged network as a strategic asset. "There's no question at this point that all communication will ultimately be IP based," says Charles Giancarlo, senior vice president of product development at Cisco. He may be right: most businesses now outfitting new offices for telephony tend to go with VOIP instead of traditional phone lines...
...company whose executives claim a Disney-like imaginative edge as its most important asset, the place seems to be suffering from game-development gridlock. Not even Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary creative director and gaming deity?Miyamoto created Mario and Zelda?has been able to break the slump. Miyamoto's latest attempt to launch a revolutionary franchise was a bizarre entry called Pikmin, in which users play an astronaut stranded on a remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western...
...says his inability to stop thinking about council funding could be an asset...
Lurie thinks it’s an asset that his extracurricular interests extend beyond the council. On his website, he speaks of the insular nature of some representatives, criticizing the council for “allocating too much money to UC bureaucrats’ pet projects...
When Barro was asked by Blenkinsopp about calling someone “an idiot” during a council meeting, he admitted to having a “confrontational” attitude, but insisted that it would be an asset for the council...