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...highly marketable skills, and unemployment in the area is near 2%. Every day they troop to a "career center" in northwest Austin. They check out websites like computerjobs.com and a bulletin board that boasts 30 "success stories"--only limited consolation given that companies where they might naturally land--Intel, Motorola and Verizon--have also been trimming workers. Doug Hutter, 41, with two kids at home, lost his job as an IT specialist Feb. 15. "I'm starting to get scared," he says. "I'm wondering where the next house payment is coming from...
...Well, Amazon can still bellwether with the best of them, at least emotionally. After the bubble-all-over-its-face dot-com boldly preannounced Monday that it had lost less money (and sold more stuff) in the first quarter than anybody expected, suddenly anything looks possible. Could Motorola, or E*Trade (after the bell Tuesday) pleasantly surprise too? Could Yahoo (Wednesday?) tell us the web advertising market isn't quite a death sentence...
...TerraLink Technologies (www.terralink.ru) sells its software development and engineering services both at home and abroad. There are 5,000 to 8,000 professional programmers in Russia, generating revenues of $60 million to $100 million a year - a number that is growing 40% to 60% annually. Clients include Boeing, Intel, Motorola, Nortel and Sun Microsystems. But very few Russian companies meet international quality standards and even fewer have track records in the West...
...support for a new, secure digital music format. By leveraging resources from its music, gaming and audio-video divisions, Sony may be able to create the ultimate portable gadget. And now the first PDA phones are on sale from Kyocera and Ericsson, with more on the way from Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and others...
Other automakers offer similar systems, but none so far that are fully voice activated. Still, they are moving in that direction. Mercedes says its OnStar-like Command feature is available hands-free. BMW has announced a customized, hands-free, digital version of Motorola's new TimePort. BMW plans to introduce iDrive, a console panel that will house Internet and e-mail software as well as hands-free phone service. In 2002 Ford hopes to install its own service, called Wingcast...