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...Geoffrey Moore, a managing director at TCG Advisors in San Mateo, Calif., whose book, Crossing the Chasm, has shaped Segway's strategy, raises other concerns. There's simply too much "pain" associated with its use, he says, to make the gains derived from owning it seem worthwhile. Average consumers, he explains, will worry about such things as the etiquette of Segway use. (Where can it be driven? Or safely parked? Can it be brought into the office? Left in the lobby?) Though any one such concern is minor, he says, together they have a multiplicative effect. "It's like Gulliver...
...patrol officers as he attempted to come back into the U.S. near El Paso, Texas. When agents tried to stop him, he ran into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 10, "narrowly avoiding collision with several cars," according to immigration records. He subsequently was arrested, that time under the name Mateo Jimenez, and ordered to be returned to Mexico. It didn't stick. In November he was arrested by Portland, Ore., police for possession and delivery of a controlled substance. He never showed up for court appearances...
...They married while he was still in school, but when she tried to get a job, no law firm would hire her, except as a secretary, although she had finished third in her class--two spots below classmate William Rehnquist. She eventually got a job in the San Mateo, Calif., county attorney's office by offering to start out working for free. Years later, she expressed the view that being the court's first woman didn't make much difference on its rulings. "A wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same decision...
...margins on a Taiwan-made notebook PC, for example, have fallen by half, to 5%, over the past three years. Caught in the big squeeze, Taiwan's tech companies "can't just fly under the radar anymore," says Flint Pulskamp, an electronics analyst at consulting firm IDC in San Mateo, California. "If they're going to survive, they need to step out and get recognition for their brands...
...Mateo, Calif. and Eliot House...