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...Apparently a small bunch of Palm users have had rather nasty shocks to their system. Static electricity, they say, has somehow made its way from their Palm cradles to their PCs during the HotSync process, which is where the two exchange and back up information. Result: fried motherboard. This appears to have happened enough times for San Francisco attorneys to file a class-action lawsuit last week. The law firm has garnered testimony from at least 40 new complainants since the suit started to be publicized. Palm maintains it is not aware of any such problem...
...after eight weeks of dickering, the deal got done--as both companies recognized that it was the only way they could compete against larger rivals Solectron and Flextronics. SCI, with $9.1 billion in sales last year, mainly assembles PCs and telecom gear, using relatively low-paid labor in countries like Mexico and Malaysia. Sanmina manufactures more complex switches, routers and optical-networking equipment for the likes of Cisco, Alcatel and Motorola, often using skilled labor or factories equipped with robots and lasers. If the merger is approved, as expected, by shareholders and regulators in the U.S. and Europe, the combined...
...retires next year. But it is the end of an era for the old hands at SCI, formerly Space Craft Industries. The Huntsville, Ala., company was founded in 1961 by Olin King, a former NASA engineer who subcontracted for the space agency. SCI evolved into a major manufacturer of PCs and then, under Sapp, who became CEO in 1999, diversified into optical and wireless technology. In fact, at the nadir of the current tech slump, the company in March bought Nokia factories in Finland and Britain, and in June announced that it would triple the capacity of a factory...
Maybe I was expecting a bit too much from a freebie. I ramped up to Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5 ($99), the best-selling burning software for PCs. It had one truly tantalizing feature. You could blend tracks into one another like a true DJ. I dreamed of making nonstop party discs without a nanosecond of silence or fade-out. Alas, this is no good if you can't preview what the transitions are going to sound like--which, 9 times out of 10, Roxio's software failed...
...what does all this mean for consumers? The decision could lead Microsoft to make last-minute changes in the XP operating system, the latest version of the Windows software that runs nearly 95% of all PCs. Just before the ruling came down, Gates & Co. said they were removing Smart Tags, a controversial feature of the new software. Smart Tags turn words on websites into links to Microsoft-approved sites. Critics charge they are Microsoft's attempt to use its browser market dominance to drive traffic to its own sites. If Microsoft is worried about the ruling, it might modify other...