US can maintain tech leadership
The News Review:
- US can maintain tech leadership
- Japan mobile makers face challenges at home, abroad
- Tomato-growing device turns world of gardening upside down.
- Home-field advantage
US can maintain tech leadership
ZDNet – May 31, 2005
have grown that steadily over the past 12 years to its present size of about 700 R&D people. It is in a site located just outside of Delhi. How does that compare with your other R&D sites? Is that the biggest one you have now? Bingham: Oh no, no. Our largest one by far is here, in San Jose. How many people are there? Bingham: We have 912…
He described reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will open a design-service center in China, and that the country just got the second edition of its Godson chip, designed in a home-grown fashion. (Godson II is said to be a 64-bit processor able to run at 500MHz. ) I’m curious about whether or not these are signs that China is taking the reigns of the semiconductor industry–not just the manufacturing work, but its higher-level stuff. Bingham: No, I (view it as) an important milestone but not as a signal that China is taking the reins. If you look at what TSMC is doing–and by the way, Fujitsu and NEC and Philips and LSI Logic and many, many other companies are doing the same thing–what they’re doing is harnessing Chinese engineering talent to design devices in many cases for the Chinese market.
Japan mobile makers face challenges at home, abroad
Newindpress – Newindpress (subscription) – May 31, 2005
“If they lost the domestic market, that would be the fall of their last bastion. ” So far, mobile phone makers in Japan have been able to keep the domestic market, which accounts for about 7 percent of global demand, virtually to themselves. That’s mainly because Japanese second-generation mobile phone networks were based on a unique, home-grown technology. But users are gradually shifting to a global W-CDMA standard for high-speed third-generation (3G) services, helping to crack open the market for overseas makers. , Japan’s dominant wireless carrier, said last week it aimed to launch a 3G phone made by Nokia as early as the second half of this business year starting in October. DoCoMo also plans to introduce a Motorola phone for business users this summer, exerting pricing pressure on Japanese handset makers and potentially denting their already shaky profitability.
Tomato-growing device turns world of gardening upside down.
Free with registration – Knoxville News Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 31, 2005
–> COPYRIGHT 2005 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Byline: Larisa Brass May 31–When Bill Felknor sold the first Topsy Turvy tomato planters well into growing season last year, one of the first catalogs to offer the planter estimated it would sell about 8,500 before summer’s end. The catalog sold 13,000. So it may not be a complete surprise that Reader’s Digest this month named the upside down, home-grown growing contraption the “Best Gardener’s Helper” on its “America’s 100 Best” list of people, places and things. The Topsy Turvy was one of four “Bests” from Tennessee, a list that included performers Loretta Lynn and Big and Rich and shipping giant Federal Express. For the 65-year-old inventor’s Felknor Ventures in Oak Ridge, business has taken root and been fruitful ever since. The product has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and in USA Today. At a recent international gardening show in Las Vegas, company founder Felknor said his booth, distinguished.
Home-field advantage
Mail Tribune – May 31, 2005
Advertisement "It’s just tough right now because we can’t keep our inventory stacked," Schuler said. "As long as we keep everybody happy, it’s a great problem. " While other seed companies were hampered by cold, wet weather in sunflower-growing parts of northern North Dakota and Minnesota, Giants is enjoying a home-field advantage. It uses a variety of confection seed grown farther south, in southern North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas. "Having the right variety and the right environment did give them an edge," said Gary Fick, a Breckenridge, Minn. , seed breeder who developed the Giants variety. Giants signed a three-year contract with the Twins, who gave the company exclusive concession rights in exchange for providing the home and visiting teams with free seeds.