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...imparting his vision of America, Newt Gingrich has a way of dropping names. Say, Hewlett-Packard and Health South Inc. during his series of videotaped college lectures; Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical giants in letters to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration. By coincidence or design, many of the name-dropped have deposited timely contributions to organizations linked to Gingrich. Disclosures about the favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director...
...largest U.S. operations affected were Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Eli Lilly and Caterpillar. Procter & Gamble, which runs a $2 billion business in Japan, will be unable to use its 30-story office tower for several months, and is operating out of nearby Osaka. Lilly's main plant is still working but a new one, due to open this month, will need weeks of repair. Hewlett-Packard's electronics plant went back to work at 60% capacity last week. ``Shoot,'' says Dorwin Larsen, general manager of the Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi joint venture in Kobe, ``it's not that significant...
...Hewlett-Packard (HP) workstations and Macintosh computers in the Science Center basement offer public access to the Web. The versions on the HP machines can be accessed by typing "xmosaic" at the "scws%" prompt...
Software giant Microsofttoday announced alliances with 10 companies -- including phone giant U S West and Germany's Deutsche Telekom, the world's largest cable company -- to test and deploy itsworldwide interactive TV. Part of the deals: Hewlett-Packard and NEC will join General Instrument in developing TV set-top boxes compatible with the Microsoft's Tiger TV software system. Some industry analysts think Microsoft, seen as lagging behind similar interactive projects from Time Warner, Viacom,Bell Atlanticand others, might now be poised to pull ahead. The company's chief, Bill Gates, predicts a mass market for interactive television in five...
...part why phone companies like Pacific Bell, which has already laid 350,000 miles of fiber-optic cable, are eagerly waiting to purchase a new generation of fast video "servers" that squeeze movies and other programming down to the right size and deliver them to customers virtually on demand. Hewlett-Packard and other manufacturers are scrambling to roll out such servers by next year at prices of up to $20 million...