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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (29983)	12/9/1999 4:46:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Wireless and Fiber Optic Networks to Boost Compound Semiconductor Sales To $10 Billion Compound Semiconductor Magazine Predicts Communications Applications <> Sales of compound semiconductor devices will reach the $10 billion mark in 2000, predicts an article in the December issue of Compound Semiconductor Magazine. "Shipments of compound semiconductor devices increased nearly 4x in this decade ... [PR Newswire] >> Motorola`s MPC7400 PowerPC Microprocessor Awarded `Component of the Year`; MPC7400 Processor Wins 1999 Award of Excellence Over Intel`s Pentium III Coppermine and AMD`s Athlon The newest PowerPC microprocessor from Motorola , delivering never before achieved levels of performance, received the 1999 "Award of Excellence" for Component of the Year by the Dabbagh Information Technology Group . [Business Wire] >> Philips Semiconductors and Ericsson Mobile Communications Join Forces to Bring Bluetooth-Based Products to Market Philips Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics , and the third-largest supplier of semiconductors for the global telecommunications market, today announced that it has signed a cooperation and development agreement ... [Business Wire] >> Intel Begins Delivering Itanium Processor-based Prototype Systems Intel Corporation has begun delivering prototype Itanium processor-based servers and workstations, further assisting system manufacturers, operating system vendors and application providers to complete the development and testing of products targeted for Intel's Itanium processor. [Business Wire] ... (6 more stories available in your Individual.com Personal NewsPage) ======================================================================== U.S. Economic Indicators ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Productivity Jumps in Third Quarter Workers' productivity, a key to national economic vitality, grew at the fastest rate in seven years in the third quarter. At the same time, companies' labor costs actually declined _ a recipe for keeping inflation at bay. [Associated Press] >> U.S. corporate layoffs surge 123 pct in Nov vs Oct After hitting a 25-month low in October, U.S. corporations returned to the job-chopping block, announcing 50,907 layoffs in November, a 123 percent surge over the previous month, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the international outplacement firm. [Reuters] >> Redbook US retail index up 1.9 pct in Dec vs Nov U.S. adjusted retail sales in the first week of December surged 1.9 percent compared with the month of November, in line with a revised December target, LJR Redbook said on Tuesday. [Reuters [WN]] ======================================================================== Front-Page Telecom News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 3 Phone Cos. Get Joint Wireless OK Bell Atlantic, Vodafone AirTouch and GTE have the Justice Department's approval to create a coast-to-coast wireless telephone network after they agreed to the largest sale of assets the government ever demanded as a condition of approving a merger. [Associated Press] >> Laissez-Faire Web Policy Debated The nation's communications regulators are seeing some fruits of their hands-off Internet policy, as companies forge agreements to determine how consumers will get a new generation of high-speed services. [Associated Press] ... (8 more stories available in your Individual.com Personal NewsPage) ======================================================================== Global Wireless Overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> GTE Selects Lucent Technologies to Supply PCS CDMA Network in Buenos Aires GTE and Lucent Technologies today announced they have signed a multimillion dollar contract for Lucent to provide a wireless Personal Communications Services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology to GTE's Argentine subsidiary, GTE PCS S.A., in Buenos Aires. [Business Wire] ... (3 more stories available in your Individual.com Personal NewsPage) ======================================================================== Front-Page Business News ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> FOCUS-U.S. clears Bell Atlantic-Vodaphone wireless deal (Updates throughout; pvs NEW YORK) U.S. regulators approved the planned combination of the U.S. wireless operations of Bell Atlantic Corp. <BEL.N> and Vodafone AirTouch Plc <VOD.L>, so long as the companies eliminate some overlapping properties. [Reuters [WN]]