Oct 30 2006 6:34AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (3) |
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Taiwan-based OEM Compal said last week said it will be unable to fill 100,000 notebook computer orders in the fourth quarter due to DRAM and battery shortages. In the face of strong demand, that's bad news for  retailers, parts suppliers and consumers. Compal's 2007 projections call for shipping between 18 and 18.5 million units - better than 4 million more than 2006. In 2005, there was a serious Intel chipset shortage that constrained supplies of notebooks. For parts and component suppliers, strong demand is good news, but narrowing the manufacturing pipeline (and ...Read More

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Oct 23 2006 10:27AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (3) |
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If you want to instantly turn blogging content into dishwater or largely propaganda, just follow the model the Chinese government is considering - bloggers using their real names. That's not to say you can't have a totally whacked blog name in China like 750 Volts-The Third Rail on the Left Side or 1/2deadstock. Rather, the Chinese blogger would have to register his or her blog using his or her real name so the government could act if said blogger was spreading hooliganish falsehoods (that's the Chinese government interpretation of falsehood, BTW...I would NOT want my name used if I saying nasties blogs must be sayin...Read More

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Oct 17 2006 11:41AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |
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It's too bad more semiconductor companies can't be like Baldor Electric. Of course, the Fort Smith, Arkansas, maker of industrial electric motors, drives and generators is vastly different from semiconductor companies that have to look east for survival and salvation. But I loved the company's pitch, which I heard today at an analyst meeting in Boston (I'm partial to mechancial stuff like motors). Baldor
has 15 plants, all in the U.S except one in the U.K. Want more? The company has not had a layoff since 1960 - most of people in the analyst meeting were born after Baldor's last layoff!

Now, I can't completely vouch for chairman and CEO John McFarland's pitch without greater scrutiny and I confess not knowing the company well. ...Read More

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Oct 12 2006 8:24AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (38) |
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Ok, let's have a some fun. Who would you most like to be locked alone in a clean room with for 12 hours? And who would you least likely liked to be locked in a clean room with alone for 12 hours? I have been tempted to ask this question for some time which comes courtesy of EB senior editor Barb Jorgensen. She promises to respond....and I will too...in our comments section.

Clever CLEAN room humor is strongly encouraged!

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Ray Noorda, one of networking's foremost pioneers, died Monday at his home in Orem Utah.  He was 82.
I interviewed Ray many times in the late eighties and early nineties when Novell NetWare, which utterly dominated PC networking, had a full head of steam. Ray, as everyone called him, was a visionary and helped give rise to bustling tech community in the greater Salt Lake area. He was also a humble man who wanted to create jobs for people. And he did - 12,000 of them at Novell's zenith.

Ray was also an innovator. He sold network servers and cards at a loss to create the hardware infrastucture ripe for his more profitable software. He also created a robust network of Novell resellers, ergo folks who sold, installed and sup...Read More

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