Word: teche
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...winning kids over to become fans of homework may take more than high-tech help. Annette Bitter's seventh-graders love doing research on the laptops they got through a Microsoft study. "But of course there are always excuses," says Bitter, who keeps hearing a modern tale of woe: "The computer ate my homework...
...High-tech firms and computer companies, with their easier access to and knowledge of new technology, are often in the vanguard of efforts to work with the disabled. Hewlett-Packard Co., for one, has educated its managers about devices that can be used to assist employees who are blind or deaf, says Maricella Gallegos, who manages the Palo Alto, Calif., firm's disabilities employment program. Workers with emotional problems who have trouble dealing with the workplace are offered the option of telecommuting...
...reason why high-tech firms are more open to the disabled--humane considerations aside--is that the price of accommodating them, at least in some areas, is rapidly falling. Henter-Joyce Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., software company, manufactures a program for blind and visually impaired people that has come down in price by almost half--from $1,500 to $795--since its 1988 introduction, notes president Ted Henter, who is himself blind. Called JAWS, an acronym for Job Access with Speech, the Windows-based program reads back in a synthesized voice whatever is typed into a computer. This voice...
...this corner the old tech champion, weighing in at $235 billion in market capitalization, built on decades of solid earnings: Intel. And in the other corner the new tech challenger, having briefly hit $50 billion in market cap last week, and with dynamite earnings potential: Yahoo. These two heavyweights, by coincidence, held overlapping conference calls last week to discuss their fourth-quarter earnings reports with investment professionals. Intel is a bellwether because of its ubiquity in personal computers, so it has always drawn the bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly...
...investor, I want a smattering of both old and new U.S. tech stocks, even if the prices of some Net stocks are overinflated to adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every...