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...hopes to give it to them by developing ways for phone and utility companies to manage household networks externally. "The idea has potential, but I see this as a couple of years off," says Michael Wolf, an analyst with Cahners In-Stat Group. "The best course is still to sell reliable and fail-safe equipment...
...White House last week--and the fact that it involved China made the mess even harder to clean up. Bill Clinton has already been bruised by accusations that illegal Chinese contributions found their way into his 1996 campaign and that he was overeager to allow U.S. firms to sell high-end computers and satellite technology to Beijing. Now the "soft on China" shouts are louder than ever, boosted by claims from critics in both parties that top Administration officials delayed and soft-pedaled the investigation into alleged Chinese spying at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace...
...Just last week, Motorola sued Intel for allegedly hiring away key employees to obtain its microchip trade secrets. Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill recently acknowledged that a rogue employee may have lifted proprietary genetic material from a competitor, an admission that effectively killed a $650 million deal to sell its North American seed division to a German biotech venture...
Since passage of the Economic Espionage Act, only 13 criminal cases have gone to indictment. In December two men were sentenced for scheming to sell Intel prototype microchips to rival Cyrix, and most recently a California man, David Kern, was charged with stealing engineering secrets from his former employer, Varian Associates, a leading Silicon Valley maker of radiotherapy systems used to treat cancer. For more than a year, a federal grand jury has reportedly been looking into whether a subsidiary of financial-information giant Reuters was involved in an attempt to steal data from rival Bloomberg (Reuters says...
...Want to sell lots of your new product? Here's a classic formula. First, imply that it cures some baby-boomer malady, like the dimming of memory or sex drive. Then hint that there might be a shortage of the miracle elixir. Sundown Vitamins seems to be taking both approaches with Cellasene, an herbal remedy imported from Italy that it claims "helps eliminate" cellulite, the dimply, cottage-cheese-textured deposits of fat that gather on the hips, thighs and buttocks of most women past their...