Word: intel
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LOVELACE: Intel [0.5%] already pays a token dividend. As for others, I think the answer is yes. Traditionally, paying a dividend was an expression of confidence by management. With tech companies, that got flip-flopped. Paying a dividend was a sign of a lack of confidence in future growth. The traditional view is coming back...
...venture capitalist who pioneered the startups of Apple and Intel, Arthur Rock knows a thing or two about getting fledgling enterprises off the ground...
Also on the move is TiVo-style technology. Intel, SonicBlue and Microsoft all brought prototypes of personal video players (PVPs). No larger than a Walkman, these PVPs will store more than 70 hours of TV programs on internal hard discs and display them on 4-in. screens. The shows can be beamed to the players over a wireless Internet network. There's no price tag or release date yet, but Hollywood execs--already in a tizzy over TiVo--might want to lay in extra supplies of Tylenol...
...been the best way of getting at the truth. The truth was that back when he was the Jerry Springer of his day, he couldn't stomach being attacked for doing something he considered harmless. So Barris wrote a book in which his first assignment purportedly was to collect intel on Martin Luther King Jr. "People forget the point of the book," he says. "Here I was, getting crucified by critics for entertaining people and getting medals for killing them. That just didn't seem logical...
Moore's law holds that computers will continually get faster, but there's no corollary that says users will bother to buy them. Consumers no longer feel the need to upgrade to the latest hardware every time Intel unveils a speedier microprocessor or Microsoft releases a heftier version of Windows. According to the consumer technology-research firm Odyssey, home users nowadays are perfectly willing to go almost five years between PC purchases. Meanwhile, the computer industry, mired in its worst-ever sales slump, is desperate to dream up a compelling innovation that will put the forced back in forced obsolescence...