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November 23, 2004
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In This Edition
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1. To The Tech Giants Go The Spoils
2. Tech Spending Looks Up in Asia, E.Europe
3. Time Warner Nears Deal Over AOL Accounting
4. Survey Suggests New Computers Will Drive up Software Costs
5. Building a Medical Data Network
6. High-speed Net Use Doubles, Survey Finds
7. PeopleSoft Board Rejects Oracle Offer
8. Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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1. To The Tech Giants Go The Spoils
>From Business Week (Topic: Strategic Alliances), Nov. 29:
Investors nervously crossed their fingers as Hewlett-Packard
Co. prepared to announce its fourth-quarter earnings on Nov.
16. After all, the company had stumbled so badly three
months earlier that CEO Carleton S. "Carly" Fiorina had
summarily fired three top sales execs. Analysts had
questioned HP's ability to deliver on Fiorina's strategy of
providing a comprehensive array of tech products and
services for corporations and consumers. So it was a relief
when HP announced revenue growth of 8% year over year, to
$21.4 billion, and a 27% jump in profits, to $1.1 billion.
One key to its quick turnaround: strengthening demand from
large corporations.
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2. Tech Spending Looks Up in Asia, E.Europe
>From Reuters (Topic: Spending), Nov. 23:
Spending in Eastern Europe and Asia is expected to lead a
recovery in the global technology market over the next three
years, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
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3. Time Warner Nears Deal Over AOL Accounting
>From The Washington Post (Topic: Time Warner), Nov. 23:
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Time Warner Inc.
are nearing agreement on a deal in which the media giant
would pay about $750 million to settle wide-ranging
allegations of accounting irregularities at Dulles-based
America Online Inc.
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4. Survey Suggests New Computers Will Drive up Software Costs
>From USA Today (Topic: Software), Nov. 22:
Computers are being redesigned to make them cheaper, but the
software license model is not following suit and could mean
huge cost increases for enterprises and individuals, a
survey found on Monday.
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5. Building a Medical Data Network
>From The New York Times (Topic: Electronic Patient Records),
Nov. 22:
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In health care, the most exhilarating technology always
seems to be on the clinical side of medicine--sophisticated
scanners that can peer inside arteries, gadgets that enhance
life-saving microscopic surgery and biotechnology that
promises to cure disease and extend life. But medical
experts are also talking with excitement about what might
appear to be boring back-office technology--electronic health
records.
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6. High-speed Net Use Doubles, Survey Finds
>From MSNBC.com (Topic: High-Speed Internet), Nov. 22:
The number of Americans using fast Internet connections
doubled from 2001 through late 2003, still below some
expectations and especially low among minority groups and
people in rural areas, according to a report by the Bush
administration.
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7. PeopleSoft Board Rejects Oracle Offer
>From CNN (Topic: PeopleSoft and Oracle), Nov. 20:
PeopleSoft Inc. on Saturday said its board has again
unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion tender
offer, a day after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares were
tendered to Oracle.
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8. Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy
>From Wired.com (Topic: E-Voting), Nov. 18:
Electronic voting machines in Florida may have awarded
George W. Bush up to 260,000 more votes than he should have
received, according to statistical analysis conducted by
University of California, Berkeley graduate students and a
professor, who released a study on Thursday.
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