Word: hewletts
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...Hewlett Foundation will donate $400 million to Stanford University, the largest gift ever given to any university, the foundation announced on Wednesday...
...donation follows the January death of William R. Hewlett, who founded the Hewlett-Packard Company with David Packard...
...this new digital arena, Kodak isn't the yellow monster. It's just one of the pack, which ranges from such tech titans as Sony and Hewlett-Packard to brash online photo start-ups like Shutterfly, Photopoint, Ofoto, Zing and Snapfish (see box). Says Eva Manolis, co-founder of Shutterfly: "We're driving our business by hope of gain rather than fear of loss...
...ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments and all that stuff.'' Many people were awakened by individual experience: the plight of a homeless neighbor, the collapse of a bank, a friend's job loss...
...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...