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To: Gabriel008 who wrote (207)	11/24/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: jbn3	Respond to of 335

DELL at COMDEX (Nov 18) austin360.com:80/biz/features/comdex/18comdex.htm ... For three years, Dell has entertained customers at the Las Vegas Country Club, which is about a block from the convention center. Monday afternoon, Dell hosted about 60 customers to look at the company's newest products, and met with journalists and analysts at the club Monday night. A sign on a pedastal in the softly lit clubhouse lobby reminded visitors the bar was for members only. Nearby, Dell provided drinks and a buffet, while a band played contemporary tunes. Tuesday night, Dell entertained about 500 customers at a reception in the new, five-star Bellagio Hotel, which happens to be a Dell customer too. Comdex, which stands for Computer Dealers Exhibition, was started in 1979. It has broadened its scope over the years, adding electronics and multimedia products. That is driven in part by the convergence of PCs and television, telephones and home electronics systems. ...

To: Gabriel008 who wrote (207)	11/24/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: jbn3	Respond to of 335

DELL donates computers (Nov 16) austin360.com:80/news/features/digdiv/day2/16digdivgive.htm As Jo Garcia sees it, students from low-income homes in her East Austin neighborhood deserve the same tools that kids from richer parts of town use. One of the key tools is a computer. In September, Garcia's dream for kids in her neighborhood near Ortega Elementary School came true when Dell Computer Corp. donated a dozen PCs. The computers have been set up in a new community resource center on Ledesma Street near the school. Dell and several other Central Texas companies, some high-tech and some not, have worked with area schools and community groups to donate computers and Internet access. The companies say that besides doing a good deed, they are investing in children who may become employees in the future. Dell's support for the project was arranged by the Austin Project, a job-training and career-mentoring initiative that is backing the community resource centers. ...

To: Gabriel008 who wrote (207)	11/24/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: jbn3	Respond to of 335

Akia plans PC sales in America (9 SEP 98) austin360.com:80/news/09sep/18/akia18.htm Akia, a company that has thrived selling space-saving personal computers in Japan and other Asian countries, announced today its plans to sell in North America from its Austin headquarters. The company, whose American unit is headed by David Register, a former Dell Computer engineer and executive, will market desktop and laptop PCs that have flat-panel, liquid crystal display monitors. It will begin shipping computers Oct. 18. The 17-inch PC monitors have a viewable screen of 15.9 inches and a depth of 4 to 5 inches. A typical 17-inch computer monitor has a viewable screen of about 15 inches and a depth of almost 17 inches. The LCD displays also use less power than traditional monitors but offer comparable displays. In Japan, the company has been able to rank among giants like Dell, its neighbor in North Austin, Compaq and IBM. The company had sales of about $11 million a month last year. Akia, which is privately held, was estimated to have earned pretax profits of $7 million on sales of $200 million in 1996. "We're positioning this for workplaces where appearance is important and in modern high-density offices," Register said. Register said the slim computers and monitors will free up desk space and will be marketed to medical professionals as well as executives who want an attractive PC on their desk. "Have you ever seen the back of a 17-inch CRT monitor?" Register asked. "It's not a nice thing to be looking at across the desk." Register worked at Dell for seven years. While there, he was appointed the first Dell Fellow for his work on new technologies. Register also started a technical consulting firm, Vertex Enterprises, before joining Akia. ...

To: Gabriel008 who wrote (207)	11/24/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: jbn3	Respond to of 335

"Tech industry sees world of access ahead" (Oct 7, 1998) Computer uses in the future austin360.com:80/biz/features/hightech/stories/future.htm ... And if Mark Weiser, of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, is right, the common desktop PC that receives e-mail, calculates your taxes, browses the Web and plays 3-D games has peaked. Weiser sees a future in which a single machine that tries to be everything will give way to tiny computers, basically just microprocessors, that perform specialized tasks. Handheld devices such as the Palm Pilot, which act as notepads and calendars, are a step in that direction, Weiser said. ... Computers in the walls at home will use voice recognition to send e-mail or adjust the temperature. Embedded in our cupboards and our pantries, they'll note when we're low on tuna, penne pasta or peanut butter, and pass that information on to chip-carrying cards in our wallets, Weiser said. When we go shopping, the chip in our pocket will share the information with invisible sensors throughout the grocery store, where the products we have consumed will remind us to buy more. Weiser thinks such everyday irritations as driving around the block to find a parking place will be thing of the past because cheap chips buried in streets and parking lots will tell computers in our cars where to park. ... "No broadcast medium we have right now is comparable to the communications media we will have once the Internet evolves to the point at which it has the broadband capacity necessary to carry high-quality video," wrote Bill Gates in "The Road Ahead." By 2003, predicts Dell founder Michael Dell, digital wireless technology will give notebook computers the same speed and quality of video and audio as desktops operating on a broadband network. That will free countless workers of the requirement to be tethered to those networks. "This could change the way people do work, how they do work and where they do work," Dell said. ...