Word: siliconing
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...security systems for computers, could not survive without outsourcing. By lowering his development costs, the 18 engineers who work for him in India for as little as one-fourth the salary of their American counterparts allow him to spend money on 13 senior managers, engineers and marketing people in Silicon Valley. If he doesn't outsource, in fact, the venture capitalists who fund start-ups like his won't give him a nickel. Sharma's Indian-American team, tethered by a broadband connection, gets his product in front of customers faster and cheaper. "As a business, you have to stay...
...boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio rose 23% in its first day of trading. Investment bankers predict a new wave of consolidation; Goldman Sachs estimates telecom firms will have...
Students could not access their e-mail late yesterday and libraries reverted to silicon-free technology for checking out books as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) computer network was plagued with service interruptions...
...once defined it: the global economy and the future of technology. The annual Japan dinner attracted a bigger crowd than it has for years; the high-tech heroes had more of a spring in their step. (One leading indicator for tech-stock bulls: vintage '95 Taittinger champagne at the Silicon Valley reception.) But there were other signs of optimism, notably the scores of young business leaders from the Arab world who spoke eloquently of their desire for real political and economic reform...
...some dreamers, the presence of silicon, especially, suggests a way to make a return to the moon pay--and maybe even save the environment back home. If you could set up automated lunar factories to extract the silicon and turn it into solar cells, says David Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston, the moon could become a solar power station, beaming clean energy via microwaves back to Earth. "If you want to provide sustainable energy for 10 billion people by 2050," he says, "there is no other...