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...billion in sales last year and wants to boost that to $80 billion. "That's only 10% of the $800 billion market, not a lot," Dell says, with a tiny smirk of his own. The confidence comes from the pounding that Dell Inc. has given rivals, even storming past HP (see below), by rewriting some sacred tech-industry rules. Instead of innovating, Dell bet that customers would prefer the low price of standardized machines. By dealing direct, the company could build to order while paring inventory (now down to a mere three days). The boyish CEO will hand over...
Gateway has also spearheaded an American-brand revival, as companies like HP, Dell, Motorola and even Zenith (a U.S. brand now owned by a South Korean company) try to grab market share. "It's driving traditional Japanese consumer-electronics companies crazy," says Peter Kastner, chief research officer at the Aberdeen Group. Although flat-panel TVs are produced exclusively in Asia, U.S. companies like Gateway and Dell are developing strong brands that will allow them to go after other product categories dominated by Japanese makers. American tech companies are working behind the scenes: Corning makes glass for the displays, and Texas...
...mini, introduced last month, is the size of a business card, comes in five brushed-metal colors, has 4 GB of song storage (enough for 1,000 songs) and works the same way its larger cousin does (a special version of which Apple agreed last month to make for HP). But even Mac fans might balk at the new digital-music player's price: $249. The cheapest regular-size iPod is a mere $50 more but boasts 11 extra gigabytes of storage. Apple's Steve Jobs, never at a loss for words, has an answer: "It costs...
McDowell, 39, joined Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia to head the new Enterprise Solutions business group. She arrived from Hewlett-Packard, where she ran strategic planning. At HP, McDowell, a systems engineer, helped build and run the industry-standard servers group, which became a $7 billion business and market leader. The challenge at Nokia: to pull together existing products and services, and develop new ones, to give companies seamless mobile-communication capabilities, from PDAs to network security...
...iPod mini, introduced last week, is the size of a business card, comes in five brushed-metal colors, has 4 GB of song storage (enough for 1,000 songs) and works the same way its larger cousin does (a special version of which Apple agreed to make for HP last week). But even Mac fans may balk at the new digital music player's price: $249. The cheapest regular-size iPod is a mere $50 more but boasts 11 extra gigabytes of storage. Apple's Steve Jobs, never at a loss for words, has an answer: "It costs...