Rick McCallum, producent van onder meer de Star Wars prequels, meent dat de DVD een rechtstreekse bedreiging bedreiging vormt voor de filmindustrie maar paradoxaal genoeg op dit moment ook het enige is dat het bankroet van de industrie kan voorkomen. Op CNN merkt hij op dat het in tegenstelling tot een aantal jaar geleden nauwelijks nog gebeurt dat mensen meer dan eens dezelfde film in de bioscoop bekijken. Filmliefhebbers zouden weinig zin hebben om voor flink duurdere bioscoopkaartjes te betalen en wachten liever de beschikbaarheid van de DVD af, omdat huur daarvan minder kost dan een bioscoopkaartje en de geluids- en beeldkwaliteit beter is dan in veel bioscopen. McCallum ziet de toekomst ook niet zo rooskleurig in zegt dat zolang bioscopen niet massaal op digitale projectietechnieken overstappen, films steeds meer afhankelijk worden van inkomsten uit DVD's. Met het oog op de schrikbarend stijgende productiekosten van films en de toename van illegale filmuitwisseling over Internet, zouden filmmaatschappijen het daarom de komende tijd moeilijk krijgen het hoofd boven water te houden:
"A theatrical gross can't hack it anymore, and the business is barely surviving right now. This is the biggest potential growth area that we have. Studios need it, or they're gone. They're on the verge of collapse anyway. They are not making money.
[...] "This other thing is a tornado. The business will implode once you can download a movie, give it to your friends and not have a moral problem with doing it. Then we're screwed. Literally, our very lives are at stake now. George and I are just praying that we can finish 'Episode III' in time, before it's all over."
"A theatrical gross can't hack it anymore, and the business is barely surviving right now. This is the biggest potential growth area that we have. Studios need it, or they're gone. They're on the verge of collapse anyway. They are not making money.
"We really wanted to give customers information when they were buying our products or making deploying decisions (about) just how long support would be available to them," said Andy Erlandson, a product director in Microsoft's Product Support Services division.
"In worldwide market share, it's a virtual dead heat. HP's PC business is back on the growth path less than six months after the merger, and we've still got plenty of cost efficiencies, business model improvements and product innovations still ahead of us," the statement said. "We've been taking aggressive action, and this report does not reflect recent PC price cuts, new product introductions and a number of major customer wins."
"This will enable mobile operators to provide higher-quality, higher-speed data services to a substantially greater number of subscribers than is possible with the best 3G network technology available today, increasing the value of their investment dramatically," Lucent said in a news release. The advanced wireless networks capable of high-speed Internet connections are often referred to as 3G (third-generation) to distinguish it from second-generation digital networks and first-generation analog networks.
"We believe the WLAN market is going to be very exciting," said Robert Fan, vice president of marketing at Resonext, a San Jose-based fabless semiconductor company. "While 5GHz may have been kind of slow to get adopted so far, that's about to change.

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AmberWave is a spinout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which offers a licensable form of strained-silicon technology. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has confirmed that it is working with AmberWave on an SS-SOI process, and several other customers are using AmberWave's intellectual property for 130-nm strained-silicon devices fabricated at an unidentified foundry in Taiwan.
The addition of a full-fledged journaled file system scheme signals Apple's latest effort to provide enterprise customers with enhanced administration capabilities. In a journaled file system, the file system keeps a log of the hard disk's main data activity. In case of a crash or other system failure, the file system can retrieve lost data by consulting the "journal" log, restoring the system to its previous state instead of having to go through the lengthy process of rebuilding it via Unix's file system consistency check (a BSD command that works with HFS file systems) or similar disk-check utilities.
Apple sold 140,000 iPods during the quarter, including 54,000 devices sold to owners of Windows-based PCs. The company also benefited from sales of Mac OS X 10.2, known as Jaguar. Apple said it sold 280,000 copies of the operating system, excluding volume licenses, and said the company is on track to have 5 million Macintoshes, or 20 percent of all Macs in use, running Mac OS X.
De overgang naar 0,13 micron technologie in Dresden is voltooid. In het vierde kwartaal zal AMD twee miljoen processors met een performance-rating van 2400+ of hoger kunnen produceren, meer dan de vraag in de markt, aldus AMD. De eerste 90 nanometer samples zijn veelbelovend. De plannen met de betrekking tot de positionering van de Hammer-cores in de desktop- en servermarkt hebben een wijziging ondergaan. AMD zal halverwege de eerste helft van 2003 beginnen met de levering van Hammer processors, maar de focus zal anders dan de oorspronkelijke plannen bij de Opteron server-processors liggen. De reden hiervoor is de onzekere vraag naar high-end processors in het desktop segment. Eerder dit jaar werden onderzoeken gepubliceerd waaruit bleek dat de nadruk in het desktopsegment is verschoven naar de low-end processors, omdat consumenten en bedrijven niet overtuigd zijn van het nut van de duurdere high-end desktop CPU's. In het serversegment bestaat wel een onveranderde behoefte naar meer performance.
Analysts were sceptical that Microsoft would deliver even during the first quarter, citing problems with the product. For example, the display devices are intended for the consumer market but require that the more expensive, business-oriented Windows XP Professional be running on the connecting PC.