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...course, the holy grail for new media pioneers in Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley has been the so-called idea of "convergence," the marriage between television and the Internet. Content providers see this as digital nirvana, a chance to draw in viewers by making their experience more interactive--increasing interest and viewership at the same time...
Palm grabbed an early lead because the power junkies in Silicon Valley couldn't believe users would want a computer with less, not more. President and co-founder Donna Dubinsky spent 18 fruitless months trying to convince venture capitalists and potential manufacturers that the key to selling handheld computers was simplifying them, not adding features. "Time after time, I'd go into meetings, and they'd say, 'You can't do a device like this without a PC card slot or a spreadsheet or whatever,'" she recalls. "But where was the evidence? It's very, very hard to go against...
Dubinsky, meanwhile, finally found an angel. U.S. Robotics, the leading modem seller, based in Skokie, Ill., was looking to extend its brand. "They weren't in Silicon Valley, so they didn't know the conventional wisdom that these things were dogs," she says. In September 1995, the Midwesterners bought Palm Computing...
Placed on the ballot through the voter initiative process at the hands of Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Proposition 227 promotes English-only instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking...
Amazingly, in no time at all, my careful attention to the stocks seemed to be paying off: Just two weeks after the KSF bought shares in it, Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) signed a new chief executive officer, and the stock responded by jumping a whopping 27 percent...