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To: VidiVici who wrote (47952)	12/17/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

FWIW, this might light up an across the board semi rally Monday... AFTER THE CLOSE ****** Novellus (NVLS) 85 11/64 +8 31/64: company preannounces an upside surprise for Q4; says revenues will be $190 mln and after-tax margin will be 16-17%, implying earnings of $0.75-0.79 per share versus a consensus of $0.65. NVLS also guides number higher for the first half of 2000, with revenue/margin forecasts implying a conservative EPS estimate of $1.85 for the first half. And finally, the company announces a 3-1 stock split.

To: VidiVici who wrote (47952)	12/18/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Zenith(C-Cube) settop.............................. cedmagazine.com Zenith demos digital set-top LOS ANGELES-Zenith Electronics Corp. is showing its ZDT-2020 digital set-top box, designed to work with the OpenCable point of deployment modules of various security system vendors. Zenith says the box provides a platform for third-party program guides and on-screen navigators, supports real-time video/audio, and reverse path communications for VOD, Internet access, e-mail and home shopping. Also, Zenith is demonstrating a digital set-top connected to an ATSC remodulator digital interface for an RF connect with digital and HDTV sets.

To: VidiVici who wrote (47952)	12/23/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: VidiVici	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 50808

Net goes magnetic IT SOUNDS like a great idea: using ordinary power lines to carry Internet traffic. But the speed at which power lines can carry data has been limited because the transformers in substations can mangle the signal. Now a Texas company says it has the answer: instead of piggybacking data on the electric current, it uses the magnetic field the current generates to guide a microwave along the outside of the cables. Media Fusion of Dallas, Texas, was granted a patent for the idea in November. Inventor William Stewart, the firm's chief scientist, says the magnetic field acts as a waveguide. In Stewart's scheme, the signals are generated by a maser, a device that produces microwaves in the same way that lasers produce light. Stewart says the system can transmit many megabytes of information per second, compared with about 1 megabit per second using electric current as the carrier. The latter is seen as uncompetitive in the face of high-speed phone line access (New Scientist, 18 September, p 13). In the new system, fibre-optic lines will feed Net data to control centres at electrical substations, where it will be translated into microwave pulses that are sent to the subscriber's power line modem. The company has made the system work in the lab and plans to start large trials in the US soon. Kurt Kleiner From New Scientist, 25 December 1999 newscientist.com