Redbaron - Tech, Software
Thursday, February 27, 2003
[7] Canon News, Information and Profile
1. Canon Corporate info
(i) Corporate Information
(ii) Suppliers
- Marketing & Corp Communications
- GK Design (Glazer and Kalayjian). 300 E39th St, NY.
- Tech Marketing, Ink - Writing Samples
2. Printer/Copier/MFP Division (i) Software side - ImageRunner, MEAP platform, ImageWare, NetSpot - Corporate Info
- MEAP - Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform
- ImageWare - Document Mgr, Scan Mgr, Publishing Mgr, Output Mgr
- NetSpot
- Enterprise Services Platform, ESP or Print Server Appliance, PSA
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3. News and Articles about Canon and competitors
(i) Business Articles about Canon
- Canon unveils new document technology. - Globe and Mail Update, MISSISSAUGA, Ont., July 7 2003
- BUSINESS WIRE - Canon imageRUNNER Captures Top Office Equipment Industry Awards. ANAHEIM, Calif. - May 22, 2002
- Canon unveils new document technology. - Globe and Mail Update, MISSISSAUGA, Ont., July 7 2003
- BUSINESS WIRE - Canon imageRUNNER Captures Top Office Equipment Industry Awards. ANAHEIM, Calif. - May 22, 2002
- Apr 2004 - Canon to Spend $94 Mln to Boost Printers - Reuters, Apr 2004
- Xerox
- Nov 1 2004 - Xerox Scientists Discuss Groundbreaking Technologies Engineered to Make Great Color Prints at NIP20 Industry Conference. Xerox experts are discussing engineering aimed at even higher image quality in the company's color digital presses and printers. SALT LAKE CITY, Xerox Press Release
- Sep 22 1999 - Xerox Buys Tektronix Printer Division. $950 million deal places Xerox right behind HP for printer sales. - By David Myron, Rochester, NY, VAR Business
- HP
- Oct 08, 2003 - HP Announces New Total Print Management Contracts - CAP Ventures
- HP, Konica Minolta Team On Digital Copiers - Forbes, Provided By Pinnacor, Aug 2003
- IBM
- May 12, 2004 - IBM thinks midsize with printing, portables push - By Dinesh C. Sharma, CNET News.com
- EFI
- Sep 2003 - Electronics For Imaging to Acquire T/R Systems. Global Imaging Leader to Expand Print Workflow Solutions Business. - EFI Press Release, Yahoo News
- Jul 2003 - Electronics for Imaging exceeds expectations - SF Business Times
- June 2003 - EFI notching up ownership of Printcafe - Pittsburgh Business Times
- The American Business Awards - Nominee Profile: Electronics For Imaging
- Jan 2002 - EFI, MIT sues a list of 94 companies, including MS and IBM
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
[8] IT and BPO Services
(1) Business Applications
(2) Computing Infrastructure, Network Management, Telecom Services
(3) Government, Defense, Medical Research
(i) Government Scientific and Technology/IT Services
- SAIC - An Employee Owned Company
- Harris Corporation - Assured Communications Products, Systems, and Services for Government and Corporate Customers
- L-3 Communications is a leading provider of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems and products, secure communications systems, aircraft modernization, training and government services, and is a merchant supplier of a broad array of high technology products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, selected U.S. government intelligence agencies and aerospace prime contractors.
- SRI International (non-profit, formerly Stanford Research Institute)
- Sarnoff (for-profit, formerly RCA Labs. Subsidiary of SRI Intl)
- SRI International's Information, Telecommunications, and Automation Division (ITAD)
- SRI International - System Design Laboratory
- SRI Speech Technology and Research Laboratory
- SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
- SRI International - Computer Science Laboratory
(i) News and Info about BPO
- BPO India.org
- ChrysCap Lines Up $45 M For Three Deals In India. ChrysCapital has largely been focused on large deals of over $10 million and has invested in companies like TransWorks, GlobalVantedge, Acfin, Ugam Solutions, Spectramind, JobsAhead, Mphasis BFL, iVega Corporation, Egurucool, Fabmart and Bazee.com.
- Transworks is planning to raise between $5m and $7m in its third round of funding during March this year.
ChrysCapital, the erstwhile Chrysalis Capital, invested about $4m in Transworks during July last year and another $5.5m later. Following the second round of investment, ChrysCapital hiked its stake in Transworks from 40.9% held earlier, to 67.7%. - Phaneesh Murthy is CEO of iGate Global Solutions - Jul 2003, Yahoo News
- ICICI OneSource - Factsheet.
- Spectramind/ Wipro , Progeon/ Infosys ,
- 24/7 Customer, Hughes BPO
- Citibank E-serve, NIIT SmartServe
- Intelenet global - promoted by HDFC and TCS
- ServCare - in Bangalore, Daksh BPO - in Gurgaon
- Partech Systems - in Mumbai, iBackOffice
- iSeva - in Bangalore, Optimus Outsourcing/ Polaris - in Chennai
- Quintant - News. Business Services Provisioning (BSP) company funded by Phaneesh Murthy
- Planetworkz is a training institution to address the manpower needs of the growing IT Enabled Services (ITES) industry in India.
- Online Resources Corporation is a leading outsourcer of Internet banking, payment services, and other financial services to banks and credit unions of all sizes.
- COPC-2000? quality standard - Quality Assurance
- BPO infrastructure - technology, connectivity, facilities.
- Resources on Outsourcing
- BPO and CRM services overview. These are dividied into -
- Customer Care Services - Inbound, Outbound, E-mail & Chat Management , Web-base support services
- BPO Services - Transaction processing, Finance and Accounting, HR services
[9] Technology News and Articles
1. Articles on Enterprise Software Technologies Industry
(i) Software News
- Jul 21, 2004 - Why Microsoft won't change. Commentary: Swallowing companies works well. - CBS Marketwach
- Jul 2004 - Pssst--wanna buy some source code?. A group called Source Code Club, is offering what seems to be the stolen source code for an older version of Enterasys Networks' Dragon intrusion detection system and Napster's client and server software. The price: $16,000 and $10,000, respectively. - CNET News.com
- Mar 2004 - Control Freak - Lynn Reedy, Ebay's senior vice president for software development. - Forbes.com
- Dec 2003 - Developers take Linux attacks to heart. By Robert Lemos , Staff Writer, CNET News.com
- Jul 2003 - Adobe's Trojan Document. Bruce Chizen is pushing hard to make Adobe more relevant to big business. It's a bold bet that puts the company directly in Microsoft's way. Forbes, Erika Brown
- July 2003 - Future Tech: 20 Hot Technologies to Watch. PC Magazine
- May 2003 - Build a cross-platform test network, with Samba and GRUB. From IBM developerWorks -> Linux
- Jan 2003 - Linux Set to Challenge Windows on Desktop - Yahoo news
- July 2002 - Rewriting the Rules of Workflow - Workflow software is morphing into business process management software, Transform Magazine
- Dec 2000 - Software's Brash Upstarts - Business Week
- May 2000 - CIO White Paper Library - Honing your E-Business strategy. Keywords - Strategic Directions, E-Business, Surviving. By Deborah Melewski , CIO
- Apr 2004 - Who says biology need be destiny? Sana Security founder Steven Hofmyer says parallels between computer security and human immunology may spell trouble. - By Steven Hofmeyr, CNet News.com
- Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
- Communications Workers of America
- TechsUnite.org - Offshore Tracker tool. Find out which companies are outsourcing jobs overseas and how many jobs they have offshored
- In support for Legal immigrant engineers - Article by T.J. Rodgers is president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor in San Jose, Calif
- Ten top trends for 2003 - By Marshall Loeb, CBS.MarketWatch.com, Dec 2003
- Cafe au Lait Java News and Resources - home to Elliotte Rusty Harold, author of Java Network Programming
- A survey of XML standards: Part 1 - The core standards -- a foundation for the wide world of XML, Uche Ogbuji , uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com), Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc, Jan 2004
- University Launches Semantic Web Interface. The University of Southampton has launched a new semantic web interface, called mSpace, that it says will make searching for information online, and learning about a subject, much easier. mSpace is a framework that gathers information sources and presents them to the user in a single window. It can potentially be applied to any subject, provided the basic information is available. The researchers say this means users will no longer have to wade through lists of undifferentiated data when researching a subject.
2. Articles on Enterprise Hardware and Networking Technologies Industry
(i) Networking and Communications News
- Jul 12, 2004 - IBM attacks Unix rivals with Power5. IBM is expected to announce a new generation of Unix servers on Tuesday, systems it believes powerful enough to let Big Blue topple rivals Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. - By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
- Start-up brings hard drive to the masses - By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, June 3, 2003. Cornice wants to take the hard drive out of PCs and put it into your camera.
- Can HP's Printer Biz Keep Printing Money? A growing market and HP's relentless innovation should fend off rivals old and new. - BusinessWeek, July 2003
- He Put the Flash Back in Canon. How Fujio Mitarai's East-West style revived the company. - BusinessWeek, Sep 2002
- What's Brightening Canon's Picture. The Japanese tech giant attracts investors by sticking to its R&D-driven policy and continuing to grow as others flounder. - BusinessWeek, June 2002, By Irene M. Kunii
- 2004
- Riverhead Networks delivers the industry's most complete and powerful family of solutions for detecting and defeating today's most complex and sophisticated DDoS attacks
- 2003
- Nov - Latitude Communications - an enterprise conferencing firm for approx $80m in stock. Latitude was founded in 1993 and went public in 1999, when the tech boom was still going strong. Its stock climbed as high as $32 per share before plunging to less than a dollar by the end of last year. The company has 183 employees, some of whom will link up with Cisco's voice-over-Internet unit. Until now, Latitude has sold its products under the MeetingPlace brand name.
- Linksys - product line for home networking includes more than 70 products including wireless routers and access points for simultaneous sharing of broadband Internet connections, wireless network adapters and wireless print servers. Buys for $500 million stock
- Okena - security firm (behavior blocker) for $154 million stock, SignalWorks - IP telephony software firm for $13.5 million in stock
- 2002
- Oct - Psionic Software - intrusion detection system (IDS) software maker for $12 million in stock. Psionic was founded in Austin, Texas, in 1996. Its products include ClearResponse, an IDS analysis software product; and TriSentry, a suite of port scanning detection and host-based IDS tools. The company?s eight employees will move to Cisco?s VPN and Security Services business unit.
- Aug - Acquires Andiamo Networks, a SAN switch startup -- in a transaction that could amount to as much as $2.5 billion in stock.
- July - Acquires privately held Ayr Networks, a provider of high-performance distributed networking services and scalable routing software for $113 million in stock. Ayr's technology will be integrated into the Cisco IOS software.
- May - Acquires privately-held Hammerhead Networks of Billerica, Mass., and Navarro Networks of Plano, Texas, for a combined stock value of $258 million. Hammerhead Networks' software will augment Cisco's IP aggregation portfolio of cable, broadband and leased-line products, the company says. Navarro Networks' ASICs designs will aid Cisco's development of Ethernet switching systems.
- 2001
- acquire Allegro Systems Inc., a VPN (virtual private network) developer, in an all-stock transaction valued at US$181 million
- July - acquired AuroraNetics Inc., a metropolitan network technology company, for $150 million in stock
- 2000
- July - Paid $450 million to acquire NuSpeed, a start-up that made a router that transported Fibre Channel data over Gigabit Ethernet networks i.e. implements the iSCSI protocol providing a way for the two disparate networks to communicate. NuSpeed Internet Systems was founded in 1999. The 56 employees will continue to be managed by NuSpeed CEO Mark Cree and will operate in Cisco's Enterprise line of business.
- Feb - acquire privately-held Growth Networks of Mountain View, Calif., for $355 million. Growth Networks develops network switching silicon. Growth Networks' Internet Switching Fabric technology interconnects the input and output ports within high-end switches and routers. It can be used in switches that scale from tens of gigabits per second to tens of terabits per second, Cisco says. Growth Networks was founded in 1998. The 53 employees will join Cisco's Public IP Carrier Systems Group within the Service Provider Line of Business.
- 1999
- Dec - Acquires European giant Pirelli's high-capacity optical systems business for $2.15 billion in stock.
- Nov - purchase wireless product maker Aironet Wireless Communications for approximately $799 million in stock, in its continuing bid to deliver wireless networks to mobile businesses.
- Oct - buy start-up Tasmania Network Systems in a stock deal worth $25 million. Cisco said it will integrate Tasmania's content network caching software into its current Cache Engine 500 product line. Network caching speeds up content delivery and overall network performance by storing frequently accessed information, like Web pages, closer to the end user, which decreases download times.
- Sep - paid $157 million for Clarity Wireless Corp. Purchased WebLine Communications Corp., Burlington, Mass, a privately held maker of collaboration and E-mail management tools, in a $325 million stock deal. WebLine Communications, Burlington, Mass., sells customer interaction management software for customer service and E-business applications. Cisco executives said the technology will be integrated into its GeoTel line of call center products. WebLine was founded in 1996 and has 120 employees.
- August - Acquire network start-up Cerent Corp for about $ 6.9 billion in stock. Petaluma, California-based Cerent produces devices that carry data, voice, and video over fiber-optic lines. Khosla served as chief executive officer at Cerent for 18 months and engineered Kleiner Perkins' investment of $8 million in the start-up. That $8 million investment, a 30.8 per cent stake, is now worth about $2.1 billion. He recruited the first engineers to the company, including co-founder and vice-president of engineering Ajaib Bhadare.
- Aug - Cisco buys Cerent and Monterey Networks. Monterey, based in Richardson, Texas, makes products that are used to increase the capacity of optical networks.
- June - acquired Santa Clara-based semiconductor firm StratumOne Communications Inc. in a stock transaction valued at approximately $435 million. Cisco said the deal will help it equip service providers with "high-end platforms to accelerate deployment of advanced services that integrate data, voice and video." The company was focused strictly on digital CMOS designs that are to accelerate packet performance in optical backbones, land at a variety of streamlined protocols such as packet-over-Sonet and packet-over-wavelength. StratumOne was founded in October 1997 by Raj Singh, founder of Cerent Corp., and Jay Sethuram.
- April - buy GeoTel, a routing software specialist, for $2 billion in shares. GEOTel has some real revenues...unlike many of takeover targets in this sector For 1998, the Massachussets company produced sales of $44.9 million in 1998 (1997: $18.6 million) and net income of $9 million, 45 per cent up on 1997. GeoTel makes software that enables ISVs to deliver integrated voice and data to call centres. The technology is platform independent -- it works with any combination of voice and datacoms equipment.
- Fibex and Sentient
- 1998
- acquire Dallas, Texas-based IP private branch exchange (PBX) maker Selsius Systems Inc. for $145 million
- Jul - Acquires telecom switch-maker Summa Four for between US$97.5-$136.5 million, to gain expertise in making devices for sending phone calls through computer networks. Summa Four, based in Manchester, New Hampshire, makes telecom switches that send telephone calls through the Internet. Its devices also store voice mail, process calling cards, and dial phone numbers by recognizing speech. Cisco will fold Summa Four and its 210 employees into its Business-to-User Unit.
- acquired Gigabit Ethernet startup Granite Systems Inc., which some analysts count as a semiconductor company because of its expertise in medium-access control chips
- 1997
- $89 million purchase of Skystone Systems Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, a semiconductor company
3. Articles on Telecom and Communications Technologies Industry
(i) Business News, Articles of Telecom and Wireless
- Dec 13 2004 - Companies, People, Ideas - Making Over Motorola. If mobile communication is going to be seamless, Motorola has to be seamless. Five weeks after Zander's arrival at the Schaumburg, Ill. head office, he figured out what being boss of a technology company is really all about: 10% technology, 90% diplomacy. - By Elizabeth Corcoran, Forbes
- Aug 9, 2004 - Cellular Evolution. It took decades for an old technology called mobile telephony to take off. But it did take off—and changed the way the world communicates. - By Stephanie N. Mehta, , FORTUNE
- July 27, 2004 - Say what you will about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but at least it worked. But ever since assuming chairmanship of the Federal Communications Commission in 2001, Michael Powell has pursued a steadfast campaign to gut the act's unbundling provisions. Already, industry stalwarts such as AT&T and MCI are exiting the consumer business, layoffs are imminent, and the future of so-called facilities-based competitors such as Time Warner Telecom, NuVox Communications, Allegiance Telecom and XO Communications are also in peril.
- Jul 2003 - Battle of the Nets - An Interview With Blair Levin He has been on the frontlines of major changes in telecommunication policies since his days as chief of staff to former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt in 1993-97. Levin now provides counsel to Legg Mason Wood Walker clients on regulatory developments of importance to media and telecom investors. --By SANDRA WARD, Barrons
- Analyst Research
- The Street.com Streetside Chat: Ravi Suria. By Brett D. Fromson , Chief Markets Writer, Mar 2001
No Wall Street analyst saved professional investors more money in 2000 than Ravi Suria, the convertible bond strategist who just left Lehman Brothers to join Stan Druckenmiller at Duquesne Capital Management. Druckenmiller is one of the top hedge fund managers of the past 20 years. - Oct 3, 2000 - ENUM - Engineering task force could propel Internet telephony - by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, IDG/CNN
- Verizon Communications
- Aug 27 2004 - Verizon's Wireless Wonder. The phone giant's mobile unit isn't just a great telecom operation. It may be one of the best companies in the world. - By Steve Rosenbush, BusinessWeek
- Aug 2003 - Verizon's Gutsy Bet - Will its massive rollout of fiber-optic cable -- right to customers' homes and offices -- keep it ahead of the pack? - By Steve Rosenbush, BusinessWeek
- Lucent Technologies
- March 31, 2002 - Pat Russo's Lucent Vision - The new CEO must turn Lucent around in the midst of a brutal storm. Can she deliver? - FORTUNE, By Stephanie N. Mehta
- Nortel Networks
- Aug 20 2004 - Nortel: Nowhere To Go But Up Ontario-based company fires seven executives for financial malfeasance, lays off 3,500 employees and advises investors that it expects sluggish market growth for the year. - By, David M. Ewalt, Forbes
- Aug 19 2004 - Key events in Nortel's accounting saga. Nortel Networks issued long-awaited first and second-quarter results on Thursday, Aug 19 2004; preliminary numbers that clear some of the fog around the telecom equipment giant's financial performance. - Reuters News
- AT&T
- Dec 20, 2004 - This Isn't The Old Ma Bell. AT&T tech honcho Hossein Eslambolchi explains why the telecom giant is no longer "a pipes-and-plumbing company". - BusinessWeek
- Aug 23 2004 - AT&T Eagerly Reclaims Wireless Name. The company called AT&T Wireless will soon vanish, but its name will live on thanks to former parent Ma Bell. - By Scott Moritz, Senior Writer, TheStreet.com
- August 01 2004 - AT&T Pins Hopes on Technology for Business. Nine Years After Failed Bid to Defeat Telecom Law, AT&T Pins Hopes on Technology for Businesses, Not Government Lobbying - By Ellen Simon, AP Business Writer
- Forbes article. Five Wireless Innovators - In this fifth annual E-Gang survey, profiling unsung heroes of high tech, we look at five people helping foster the next phase of the wireless revolution.
Plus, other Wireless industry updates - June 16, 2004 - World's First Mobile Virus Is Not Lethal, Yet - By Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent , Reuters News
- Feb 2004 - Why 802.11 is underhyped - By J. William Gurley, a venture capitalist, CNET News.com
- Jul 2003 - Software radio prepares to go wireless. As Vanu Bose envisions the future, radio wouldn?t require specialized hardware to transmit and receive. Commercial radio, public safety bands, even the myriad technologies used for wireless phone service could all be rendered in software that runs on the standard off-the-shelf hardware. - By Jeff Miller , Mass High Tech.
- Feb 20, 2001 - Verisign turns phone numbers into Net names. The Web's biggest domain name registrar said Tuesday it would offer a new service turning telephone numbers into Web addresses, hoping to ease the pain of having to type letters while Net surfing on a wireless phone. - By John Borland, CNET News.com
- The Feature.com Articles
- Entering the Era of Printable Devices? - By Howard Rheingold, Feb 2004.
Can inkjet printing technologies of the near future democratize manufacturing, similar to the way Gutenberg's press democratized knowledge five hundred years ago? A decade from now, will we literally print out working computers, televisions, MP3-playing t-shirts? - The End of Spectrum. By Kevin Werbach, Thu Oct 02 2003. There are two basic problems with the rules governing the radio spectrum: there is no such thing as spectrum, and we don't need any rules.
- RFID: Tracking Kids, Keys and Pets. BBy Niall McKay, Fri Sep 05 2003. Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak has started a new company which will use wireless radio frequency identity (RFID) tags to help people find those annoying little things that seem to keep getting lost like pets, keys and... well... children.
- Radar on a Chip Means Radar on the Cheap - By Mark Frauenfelder, Mar 2004.
Could good old-fashioned radar technology be the next leap forward in mobile data communications?
- Nov 2004 - The Television Will Be Revolutionized, say ex-founder of Replay TV. Steve Shannon has an audacious plan to transform the way Americans watch TV, introduces new Akimbo box. So do Microsoft, SBC and Qualcomm, and many, many others. - By Scott Woolley, Forbes
- Sep 2003 - Microsoft, Japan group to work on CE.Net, RTOS environment - By Yoshiko Hara, EE Times
- June 24, 2003 - 17 Leading Companies Form Working Group to Simplify Sharing of Digital Content Among Consumer Electronics, PCs, and Mobile Devices
- April 2002 - Seven leading consumer electronics and technology companies have formed a new company in Japan, e-Box Corp, that will enable cable television system operators to deliver enhanced video on demand and interactive TV services to subscribers.
Based in Tokyo, the joint venture includes five publicly traded companies: Pioneer, Sharp, National Semiconductor, Sigma Designs and CMC Magnetics; and two privately held companies, iVAST and Modern VideoFilm. Comcast Cable Communications is advising the joint venture partners on the technical requirements of the system and intends to conduct field trials of the new services early next year. - Jan 1998 - Scientific-Atlanta (SFA) today announced that seven cable companies will be rolling out services based on its digital set-top box design - By Jim Davis , CNET News.com
- July 2003 - Cox Dialing Into Internet Telephony Field - Investor's Business Daily. By Reinhardt Krause
- TiVo, ReplayTV, or SnapStream? Our couch-potato guru reviews the state of personal video recorders. By Ken Henningsen, ComputerUser.com
- Apr 05, 2005 - Eyeing China's Alibaba. Potential IPO candidate. Commentary: The price of buying into China is rising. Alibaba owns two of the largest B2B marketplaces in the world; has a joint-venture partnership with Softbank in a popular Chinese online auction business, called Taobao; and owns a Chinese online payment system, called AliPay. - By Bambi Francisco, MarketWatch
- July 2004 - Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne's Letter to Shareholders. Detailed Second Quarter Financial Results of Overstock.com follow.
- Apr 2004
- Lawyers Bid Up Value Of Web-Search Ads. By CARL BIALIK , Wall Street Journal, Apr 2004
Mesothelioma may be the most valuable word on the Internet - Feb 2004
- Peter Thiel : The contrarian investor. Commentary: Will Thiel's downbeat outlook be right? - By Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com, Feb 2004
4. Articles on ICs, Chips and Semiconductor Industry
(i) Articles on PC Computing Chips and Microprocessors
- Apr 11, 2005 - AMD's Fate Approaches a Flash Point. Advanced Micro Devices will report financial results on Apr 12th, and one key to the company's report will be its flash memory unit, which helped plunge the company into red ink in its fourth quarter as sales unexpectedly fell. - By Chris Kraeuter, TheStreet.com
- June 21, 2004 - Intel Delivers Breakthrough PC Technologies to Enhance Digital Home and Office Experiences. Improved Audio, Video and Graphics Enable Broader Set of PC Uses.
- June 18, 2004 - Intel Seeks Leading Role In Entertainment-PC Era. From, Investor's Business Daily
- Feb 2004 - Motorola PowerPC(TM) Processor Delivers New Power Management Features, Higher Performance - Low-Power, Gigahertz-Class Version of MPC7447A Processor Containing a PowerPC Core Consumes Less Than 10W, Provides Optimal Solution for Power-Sensitive Embedded Designs - Yahoo.com/PR Newswire
- Dec 1, 2004 - Four New PIC18F Devices from Microchip Technology Offer Power Management and Integrated ECAN(TM) Module. MCHP Debuts World's Smallest CAN Microcontroller Packed Into a 28-pin, 6x6 mm QFN Package - Press Release, Microchip Technology
- Aug 9, 2004 - Analog workhorses in a digital world. Ironically enough, the digital revolution is driving strong demand for advances in analog electronics. - By Barnaby J. Feder, The New York Times via News.com
- June 17, 2004 - Xilinx Spartan Series Exceeds Three-Quarters of One Billion Dollars in Sales. More than 80 million devices have shipped to over 13,000 customers since the family's debut, making the Xilinx® Spartan Series the highest volume FPGA product line in history. - Xilinx, Press Release
- June 9, 2004 - Xilinx Co-Founder Bernard 'Bernie' Vonderschmitt Passes Away. Xilinx Press Release
- June 8, 2004 - Altera Collaborates With Synopsys on Hardcopy Structured ASICs. Altera's HardCopy Stratix devices are ideal for high-performance, high-volume applications in the storage, networking, wireless communication, consumer electronics, and industrial markets. For more information about HardCopy Stratix devices, please visit www.altera.com/hardcopystratix - Altera, Press Release
- June 7, 2004 - Xilinx Unveils Virtex-4 Family - Industry's First Multi-Platform FPGA. Twice the Density and Twice the Performance of Any FPGA Currently in Production. the Virtex-4 family is poised to move beyond the $5.1B programmable logic market to capture additional share in the $36B ASIC and ASSP markets.
- Apr 2004 - Intel vs. TI: Guess Who's the Underdog. In this battle, the smaller guy has a big edge because it's already entrenched in the markets the giant is just now trying to enter. - By Olga Kharif in Portland, Ore, Business Week
- RF chips for Communications
- Jan 2000 - Silicon RF integration - Trends in Silicon Radio Large Scale Integration: Zero IF Receiver! Zero I & Q Transmitter! Zero Discrete Passives! - IEEE, Topics in Circuits for Communications
- EDA and Chip Design
- Cadence
- Cadence Enables Open Interoperability for Next-Generation IEEE Verilog - BusinessWire, Jun 2, 2003
- Cadence and MatrixOne to Create PLM Solutions for Global Electronics Industry - MatrixOne Press Release, May 21, 2003
- Synopsys
- June 2, 2003 - Synopsys Enhances Galaxy Design Platform with Comprehensive Signal Integrity Solution - Synopsys Press Release
- May 12, 2003 - Synopsys Announces Design-for-Verification Methodology Built on SystemVerilog - Synopsys Press Release
- March 17, 2003 - Synopsys and China's Ministry of Science and Technology Sign Agreement for Tool Donation and Joint Promotion of Integrated Circuit Design Industry - Synopsys Press Release
- Semiconductor Equipment Makers
- Aug 05, 2005 - Agilent's Stock-Option Drag. It's hard for me to see Agilent's stock as undervalued. - By Robert Barker , BusinessWeek Online
- Feb 01, 2005 - Cash-Rich And Into Chips. Varian Semi sits at the "front end" of the semiconductor capital equipment spectrum. In that part of the chip manufacturing process, various types of equipment take raw silicon wafers and "print" the chip structure onto the silicon using chemical or lithographical (light-based) processes. Also, within front-end processing, negatively and positively charged ions are implanted into the silicon in order to enable transistor functionality. The latter is Varian's specialty. - Mark Mowrey, The Prudent Speculator, Forbes
- Jul 12, 2004 - Chip Gear Makers Celebrate Upturn, But Cautiously. New planarization technology from Applied Materials and Novellus Systems, at Semicon West 2004, Reuters News via Yahoo
- Apr 2004 - Who's winning the equipment business in Japan? - By Mark LaPedus , Silicon Strategies
- Nov 2002 - Nikon cuts lithography tool forecast amid losses
- Canon, Nikon Led Lithography Market in 2001 Says The Information Network
- Mulith's breakthrough Optical lithography geared to GaAs, Jan 2001
- Apr 2004 - Refining chips, one atom at a time. At the heart of semiconductor fabrication are crucial additives called dopants--impurities that change the electronic properties of silicon or other material to make the transistors and other chip components. - By Anne Eisenberg , The New York Times / CNet News.com
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Dec 2003 - IBM gets chip circuits to draw themselves - By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
- Report on Semicon West 2003 conference - By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, July 18, 2003
- Article : Feedback Matters - Feedback stabilizes all sorts of systems, even engineering teams and projects. That's why postmortems matter. -by Jack Ganssle
5. Articles on Consumer Technologies Industry
(i) Internet, E-commerce and Online Media - Articles
- Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing - By FRANK BAJAK, AP Technology Editor, Feb 2004
- Dec 2003 - The Skinny On Flat Panels - Forbes.com, by Penelope Patsuris
- Aug 6, 2004 - In the background, a man at the forefront of 'Doom 3'. It has taken four years, but the creators of the "Doom" video game series have finally reached the next level. It is chiefly Id Software's enigmatic co-founder and technical director, John Carmack's programming that has led, over more than a decade, to a series of breakthroughs in the way computers graphically render believable environments and characters. He has been largely responsible for making those characters appear to move convincingly through 3D space while interacting with much of what they encounter. - By Michel Marriott, The New York Times, via News.com
6. Technology and Telecom Sector - Stock Research , Investment Articles
(i) Sector Analysis - Hardware, Semiconductors and Chipmaking Sector
- Nov 30, 2004 - Austin, Texas-based SigmaTel (SGTL) is the No. 1 provider of chips that power these flash MP3 Devices. Appeared in SmartMoney's midcap screen, of most promising stocks with market capitalizations in the $1 billion to $5 billion range - By Jack Hough , SmartMoney
- Nov 15 2004 - Hot Chips in a Cold Sector. While most semiconductor stocks missed the recent rally, S&P's Amrit Tewary finds a lot to like about Microchip, Maxim and Linear Technology - BusinessWeek, INVESTING Q&A
- June 2004
- Fat Times for Chipmakers. Solid growth is projected for the industry, especially in sales of digital signal processors. The next dip? Maybe in 2005. - By Tom Smith, Business Week
- Feb 2004
- Ten technologies to drive demand, article from an investor's perspective. - By Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch
- Jan 2004 - Ten tech stocks to watch in 2004 Commentary: Decisive year of big tests lies ahead. - By Mike Tarsala, CBS.MarketWatch.com
- Nov 2003 - Small technology stocks are only now getting their game back - Forbes Magazine, By Marc Robins
- Cisco News
- Jan 2004 - Cisco 2003 Annual Report
- Jan 2003 - Cisco 2002 Annual Report
- Jan 2002 - Cisco 2001 Annual Report
- Jan 2001 - Cisco 2000 Annual Report
- Jan 2000 - Cisco 1999 Annual Report
- Jan 1999 - Cisco 1998 Annual Report
- Jan 1998 - Cisco 1997 Annual Report
- July 2003 - Why I Like iPayment - iPayment is a young company with promise based on a low-cost, transaction-based business model. By Jeff Fischer (The Motley Fool)
- May 2003 - Cinderella Stocks - INTU, FISV. SmartMoney.com, By Jack Hough
- June 09 2004 - Cisco vs. Juniper. There's a battle heating up in the data communications industry between Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Ben McClure tallies the strengths and weaknesses of the two competitors, from an investing perspective. - By Ben McClure , The Motley Fool
- Mar 2004
- Mexico's Slim faces fresh challenge in Latin america. Fight for mobile phone business between America Movile (AMX) and Telefonica, Spain. - By Pablo Garibian, Reuters. Mar 2004.
- Watch out - Lucent Officials Accused in Bribery Scheme. - By Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer. Lawsuit Claims Top Lucent Officials Were Involved in Saudi Bribery Payment Scheme
- UT Starcom
- July 2003 - UTStarcom's a rising phone star. Firm faces need to diversify to avoid fate of shooting star. By Jeffry Bartash, CBS.MarketWatch.com
- July 2003 - Shooting-Star Stock. By Ben Berentson, Forbes
