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Having established itself as the market leader in voice-driven applications, VoiceObjects is set for growth in the U.S. market. The company is moving its headquarters from Germany to California's Silicon Valley. Land predicts sales will rise from some $24 million this year to around $200 million by 2008, when the company could go public. Call in for details...
...bosses who can track us down anywhere, anytime, the fears that our gadgets may make us ruder and dumber and more easily distracted, it's a natural temptation to abandon technology, or at least vacation from it occasionally. First-time--and best-selling--author Timothy Ferriss has become a Silicon Valley darling by pushing his low-information diet as the secret to achieving The 4-Hour Workweek, which among other things involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really make us more efficient or less...
Self-effacing is rarely a term used to describe wildly successful venture capitalists. Yet in Tom Perkins' memoir, the Silicon Valley legend--hardly short of ego--manages that trick, revealing himself in all his "nerdy" glory and lifting the veil on the very good life. He sews dry humor through tales of yachting triumphs, road rallies in expensive cars, tech start-ups and the boardroom coup he instigated at Hewlett Packard. Looking back without rancor or remorse, he has a knack for storytelling that makes him feel like a buddy who never fails to laugh at himself...
...riffling through details obscures the larger force at work--capitalism's cold efficiency. What Wall Street does is raise money to throw at innovation. Creating liquidity in mortgage markets so that more people can buy houses is not so unlike funneling billions to Silicon Valley in the 1990s to secure U.S. technological dominance...
...says Stevens. "Do you get two tons to the acre, or do you get five tons to the acre?" Competitive risk comes via foreign wine sales, which are gaining market share. They accounted for 29.4% of the U.S. wine sales in 2006, up from 27% in 2005, according to Silicon Valley Bank, although much of these gains were in cheaper wines...