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Noyce’s Other Company

Bob Noyce, founding CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel and Sematech, was closely involved for many years with another company, originally called Typereader and later called Caere. The company tried to invent a scanner for reading type.

Long Live Wimax

A single world standard for 4G cellular networks would be a fine thing. It would produce economies of scale for equipment suppliers, and it would simplify roaming. But it’s not, of course, going to happen.

EU 100W light bulb ban leads to panic buying, but not in the UK

See also: Our LED Lighting blog – LED Luminaries I have praised Germany’s proactive stance on more energy-efficient LED street-lighting on more than one occasion in this blog. So I more than a little surprised to read over a breakfast a story in the Financial Times which said that German consumers were hoarding conventional incandescent lights bulbs in advance of an EU ...