Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impeccably timed: the previous week Intel had celebrated the launch of next-generation chip Pentium II. And the day of Digital's suit, microprocessor upstart Cyrix quietly filed its own patent-infringement claim against Intel. Digital followed a day later with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Wall Street took the bait, wrist slapping Intel's soaring stock down $6 and backslapping Digital up $2 in the belief that the microchip David wouldn't rile Goliath unless it had a really, really good case...
...Pentium Pro line that found it strikingly--even suspiciously--improved over its Pentium forebears. Intel itself provided the most damning hints that it had leaned on its competitors for the upgrade. "There's nothing left to copy," said chief operating officer Craig Barrett in an incendiary Wall Street Journal article in August 1996. "We're a big banana now," noted CEO Andrew Grove. "We can't rely on others to do our research and development...
...some cases that may have been premature. In papers published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, investigators took a good look at the suspect genes and found them less guilty than originally charged. Women with positive screenings suddenly had cause to wonder whether the test result was a false alarm and whether any surgery they'd had was unnecessary...
After Kasparov's loss, a Wall Street Journal editorial issued a stern warning against viewing technology as a threat ("Sierra Club thinking"). After all, the Journal reminded us, Deep Blue is a product of human genius. So buck up! When you turnpike-toll takers lose your jobs to E-ZPass and other electronic systems, just remember: E-ZPass is a product of human genius. There. Feel better...
...Mayo Clinic reports. When such a phone is positioned close to the heart, it can cause symptoms of heart trouble, such as palpitations, light-headedness or dizziness. Researchers found such symptoms 7 percent of the time in pacemaker users, according to the study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research analyzed the effects of five different types of digital cell phones on a focus group of 980 pacemaker users. Noticeable interference in the pacing mechanism was detected 20 percent of the time, with potentially serious disruptions occurring in 6.6 percent of the cases. Despite their inferior communications...