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...began with a decisive 8-5 victory over Steve Strange of Cal Poly in the first round. Mosley's subsequent 4-3 defeat of Virginia Tech's Eric Hall propelled him into the quarterfinals. He then lost a close 5-2 bout to the No. 3 seed Josh Koscheck of Edinboro. Koscheck and Mosley split the two matches they wrestled earlier in the season...
...norm in and around MIT and Kendall Square are high-tech firms housed in office buildings that have taken over Broadway Street, coming ever closer to the campus itself...
Another increasingly ubiquitous, albeit less visible high-tech object is the smart card. Many a European wallet now includes one or more cards embedded with a memory chip, which may hold anything from a cash balance to be spent on small purchases to personal information that reduces the possibility of credit-card fraud--or even, as in France, a complete medical history. Three French companies produce more than two-thirds of the world's smart cards, a $12 billion business set to explode as companies discover the limits of the familiar magnetic-strip card, which can hold relatively little information...
...Brussels-based research firm, tracks the growing number of European companies that are winning shares in the global-technology markets, creating jobs and wealth with innovative products, aggressive acquisitions and smart niche strategies. Its latest list shows that 127 of Europe's 500 fastest-growing companies are from the tech sector. These companies boast an average annual growth in revenues of 42% and in employment of about 36%. Among the strongest sectors are smart cards, encryption software, e-commerce software, electronic games and digital television...
...tech-stock frenzy took a new twist last week with the IPO of Palm Inc. On the first day of trading, the PDA division of 3Com Corp. became more valuable ($53 billion) than its parent company ($28 billion), even though 3Com still owns 94% of Palm's stock. If you got in late, you got hurt. Palm fell 16% on Friday, to $80.25. 3Com, after falling 21% on Thursday, closed the week at $83.06. This week the arbs move in. Careful...