Word: compaq
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...cheered each time U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cranked the engine with yet another interest rate cut. But the car never budged. And as June turned to July, the mid-year profit warnings began to roll in from Asia's biggest U.S. customers: companies like Advanced Micro Devices, Compaq and Dell Computer. Asia, it turned out, had hitched its hopes to a jalopy economy...
...www.alltheweb.com, that can handle sound files, images and movies. Virage's technology for encoding, indexing and publishing streaming media like audio and video broadcasts is being used at www.westminsterlive.tv to link the text of proceedings in Britain's Houses of Parliament to Web broadcasts of them. And at www.speechbot.com, Compaq's experimental voice-recognition software is transcribing Web TV and radio programs automatically. "Online is the preferred environment for almost everybody at this point," says Quint. "It's the birth of the universal library, in a sense." Many years of construction remain before it can be inaugurated...
Still, so many of the technologies that promote interactivity don't fulfill that promise. When I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this January, Compaq gave each delegate a free iPaq pocket computer. I sat with a friend and marveled at the gizmo. Then we sent each other e-mails. Hey! Of course, we were sitting side by side (at an indescribably dull panel on Asian economies). Pointless communication, yes, but isn't that what we do nowadays? Think how commonly we send e-mails to colleagues at work who might be as near...
...will continue to offer products made by such companies as Apple, Compaq, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sony and Toshiba...
...cover just the social studies and the humanities, he figured he needed to buy the rights to 50,000 books and to digitize them. It took 10 months to find his first investor, Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who put in $5 million of the initial $45 million raised in 1999. Questia has signed 200 publishers to date and offers 40,000 books and 4,000 journal articles. The digitization process involved shipping the books--including tomes by George Washington from 1750--to the Philippines, where 6,000 workers ripped them up for scanning...