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Certainly tech stocks were no slam dunk in the '50s, when transistors replaced the vacuum tube, or in the '60s, when microchips supplanted simple transistors. Those developments gave rise to the upstart Intel, while the shares of companies like Transitron Electronics melted away...
KARL ROVE Met Intel management while still a stockholder. Now comes the Dem inquiry
...California Democrat who plays foil to House Government Reform Committee Chairman and Clinton Administration Inquisitor Dan Burton, R- Ind., has asked Burton several times if he'll spearhead an investigation into alleged Republican wrongdoing - specifically, the situation of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who met March 12 with Intel's chief executive and two of its lobbyists even as he still held more than $100,000 in company stock. Rove has denied any impropriety, with White House officials saying that the conversation was about how the company could support the president's policies, not about a pending merger (others...
...Microsoft's William H. Gates III or Intel's Andrew S. Grove, not Walt Disney's Michael D. Eisner or Berkshire Hathaway's Warren E. Buffett, not even the late Coca-Cola chieftain Roberto C. Goizueta or the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton has created more shareholder value than Jack Welch," business writer John A. Byrne wrote...
...certainly works, which is more than can be said for a more ambitious speech recognition effort under way at an Intel research lab in Beijing. As a scientist reads from a Chinese newspaper into a microphone, the words appear magically on a computer screen. But when a friend sings the lyrics of a Chinese pop song, the technology fails miserably. Apparently the slang didn't fit its preprogrammed language bank. It gets even stickier when computers try to talk back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They...