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...such numbers make other analysts salivate, because they hint that the embattled tech sector may finally be coming out of the doldrums. "Semiconductors are the feed for the rest of the technology industry, at least for hardware," says Steve Cullen, director of semiconductor research at In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based technology research group. Indeed, some tech heavyweights are coming out of the closet to say that the worst is over. Executives of Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, demonstrated guarded optimism about a tech rebound. "The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade...
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...around and I realize I'll have to go play it again. Which may sound strange: this is, after all, a conference about fun. Surely spending three days looking at games beats any day job? But as attendees know, E3 is more like a cult rally than a high-tech sandbox. It's a little like Jonestown, only the Kool-Aid comes in iced cans at every booth and the only corpses are the ones piling up on the TV screens...
...that already offer health insurance to their workers. It mandates that small companies offer health insurance as well. This is a classic Old Democratic plan, pegged to a constituency that is shriveling: the Big America of Rust Belt manufacturing and trade unions. Entrepreneurial America--the immigrant grocers, the hi-tech start-ups in Sun Belt garages, the source of most economic growth--doesn't need the additional burden of finding and securing health plans for its workers. The notion of offering "health security" to the 41 million Americans who don't have insurance--an idea that every Democrat is likely...
...average, currency gains added the equivalent of 8.5% of net income to U.S. companies' balance sheets in the first quarter, reports Credit Suisse First Boston. Oracle enjoyed an $81 million currency gain--equal to 14% of net income that period. Yet its shares have languished amid a brisk tech rally, partly out of recognition that the equation probably will reverse...