AuthenTec: Ripe for Acquisition?
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- AuthenTec: Ripe for Acquisition?
- End of a PC era in Christchurch
- UC Davis seeing more students and faculty choosing Macs
- Acer Challenges Rivals With Larger Netbook
AuthenTec: Ripe for Acquisition?
Seeking Alpha
The questions is will this be enough to see the company through to the other side will it at least be enough for them to take advantage of their upcoming products or be acquired by another semiconductor company? What follows is a summary of AuthenTec’s earnings announcement conference call highlights and my take on the company’s latest quarter and results and what you should do if you own the stock. New to the AuthenTec story? AuthenTec Inc. is a fabless mixed-signal semiconductor company that provides fingerprint authentication sensors and solutions to the high-volume personal computer (PC) wireless device and access control markets.
End of a PC era in Christchurch
Stuff.co.nz
“The Model II was a business computer which used the ‘proper’ 8-inch floppy discs and in fact the National Party headquarters which used to be in St Asaph St did all their business on a TRS-80 Model II. When interest in the TRS-80 waned Bisman learned of the newer IBM computers through the magazine Bits and Bytes a mainly business-orientated computer magazine started in 1982 by Neil Birss (later a business editor at The Press). “I was drawn to the IBM PC which hastened the formation of the PC Users Group” Bisman says. Hargreaves’ first computer was a Sega SC-3000 which he still has. He was teaching when the first computers came available. “I was told that the school was not going to get them because they were too expensive.
UC Davis seeing more students and faculty choosing Macs
Ars Technica
Stinson’s data shows that overall Mac use is about 23 percent on the university network and rising. Further his results show some interesting differences among student staff and faculty Mac use. Students log on the network using Macs about 26 percent of the time including logins from the various Mac- and PC-based computer labs. Staff use of Macs is just 13 percent while usage among teaching faculty is nearly 30 percent. The discrepancy is simple to explain says Stinson. “A lot of the staff units are Windows only and tend to rely on whatever computer they are supplied with” he said. But given a choice of platforms faculty members choose Macs almost one-third of the time.
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Acer Challenges Rivals With Larger Netbook
InformationWeek
Today however computer makers are pushing the systems closer to the level of more mainstream laptops. While Intel’s low-cost Atom processor which is used in most netbooks is not as powerful as the chips used in mainstream system it’s good enough for many cash-strapped consumers. The Acer Aspire ne A0751h comes with.
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