Word: nec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news is good news in Japan these days. Last month Nissan announced a sweeping restructuring with thousands of job cuts, and last week it reported a $3 billion loss, one of the biggest in history. The overwhelming reaction among Japan watchers was...jubilation. These days each time Mitsubishi, NEC or Hitachi announces a plant closing, the Tokyo stock market surges higher. Economists now cheer as banks that once could have bought small countries desperately merge or plead for a white knight (even foreigners are welcome) to save them from insolvency. Behind this seemingly misplaced optimism in Japan's ailing economy...
...engineers at Intel and NEC noticed that there was something funny about the chips they were building to control floppy disk drives. A "definite logic bug," says one document. "A flaw in the microcode," says another. They fixed the problem...
...funny thing about the Web as a medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which...
...generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks...
...Midori Chamber Ensemble presents Schubert's "String Trio No. 2 in B-flat major," Brahms' "Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor," and Dvorak's "Piano Quartet in Eflat major." NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St. CelebrityCharge at 482-6661 for tickets...