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An architect of the Green Revolution(*) is now trying to bring about a 'Green Green Revolution' to avert a food crisis in the coming decades Experts have warned of a [...]

Each fall, Hawaiian biologists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden rappel over the edge of some of the world's tallest sea cliffs. Dangling from ropes 3,000 feet above the Pacific [...]

EATING ISN'T AS simple as it used to be. While shopping and cooking, we fret over chemical and bacterial contamination. We worry about hormone additives and nutritional depletion. As if [...]

The software is ready, the hardware is on the way, and it's all coming real, real soon now. So what will the desktop of the future look--and sound--like? Like nothing […]

Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) is another huge player in the burgeoning multimedia market. It delivers its multimedia systems software in two forms: a developers' kit, called the Multimedia Development Kit, […]

After withstanding the global recession in 1991 reasonably well, the computer graphics market finally succumbed to the slump in Europe, the lack of capital spending in the US, and the […]

Wireless communications fever is gripping the globe. Developed nations see wireless as another convenience and a way to increase business productivity. Developing nations see it as a means to leap-frog […]

The quest for the Teraflops Supercomputer to operate at a peak speed of [10. sup. 12] floating - point operations per sec is almost a decade old, and only one […]

Deregulation and liberalization throughout the world has gained significant attention of corporate executives both on the communication supplier side of the industry and on the corporate user side. Many North […]

In the beginning there were mainframes and other centralized computer systems. Then came the personal computer on each desktop. Now the electronics industry is abuzz over a 'third wave' of […]

The Market for Optical Disk Products: A Review of Published Forecasts, 1980-1990 This article examines the expectations and reality of optical disk market forecasts published between 1980 and 1990. It […]

The world will be a more peaceful and prosperous place in the 1990s than it has been in the decades since World War II, because the premise by which it [...]

Forty years of commercial computing have certainly spawned many technological advancements, but contrary to what some believe, the industry is by no means mature in a technological sense. In fact, […]

As Western Europe reshapes itself into a common market, will Bull, Olivetti and Siemens be strong enough to keep U. S. and Japanese suppliers from capturing any more of the […]

An economic boom in Southeast Asia should offset slowing growth in other Asian markets to create a double-digit rate of growth in information technology spending. In the Pacific Rim, the […]

The Semiconductor Market in the European Community In the past year, the EC Commission announced three rulings that will greatly affect established sourcing patterns for the global semiconductor market and […]

the european community and information technology The world has watched Eastern Europe erupt into such political turmoil that historians are expected to call this period the Revolutions of 1989. Economic […]

Europe 1992--Fraternity Or Fortress? As very often happens in this world, a new idea, a new approach, is tried somewhere, and in the process, all kinds of side effects begin […]

Economy drifts down; electronics markets follows Although it may not have been true in the 1980s, as the economy goes this year so goes electronics. With a slowing of growth […]

We are going to have to eat what the world will produce with all its failings, not what it could produce without them. Trends in global food production are therefore [...]

NEW YORK - The modest spending on R&D by PC makers compared to their semiconductor suppliers will have a bigger impact on sourcing and manufacturing strategies in 1995, according to […]

NEW YORK - Digital cellular handsets and base stations, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems, and digital video as part of a larger multimedia boom are among the hot end-markets that […]

New communication segment is expected to become a $4 billion market by 1998, as new powerful semiconductors lower costs and manufacturers agree on standards When engineers from United Technologies Corp. […]

-------------------- Paging isn't just for drug pushers and traveling salesmen anymore. At least, that's the fond hope of a handful of venturesome computer and communications companies. They're not content to […]

Distributors are counting on a solid '94, although not as robust as a banner '93. No one believes two years to 30 percent-plus growth is possible, with a cooling of […]

There's no end in sight to the incessant price-performance leap-frogging that has characterized the leading vendors of workstations and workstation servers. That's good news for budget-bound buyers, who will benefit […]

The newest vision of desktop computing all but eliminates the desk. Wireless local-area networks are becoming still another holy grail of sorts for leading-edge computer and communications companies. Apple, AT&T, […]

Despite a flurry of year-end orders through distribution by customers anxious to fill inventory gaps, industrials are bracing themselves for another rough-and-tumble year. Sapping distributor confidence is a bruising economic […]

NEW YORK -- The introduction earlier this month of IBM's 3390 Model 3 moved the market for large-systems DASD into what many observers say will be a final round of […]

An integrated broadband network would offer a dazzling array of new services for consumers. Such a network would provide switched, two-way capabilities for voice, data and video and offer both […]

Supply problems have faded, the manufacturer lineup has grown, and prices will fall even further What weighs 4 to 7 pounds, measures 8.5 inches by 11 inches by 3 inches, […]

Drive makers again predict 8-in. demise Some makers of 8-inch drives are again predicting that the form factor is on its way out. Fujitsu America (San Jose, CA) 'will introduce [...]

Europe Looks Forward To Robust Growth Clearly, the heaviest action in communications in 1991 will be outside the U.S. The opportunities are particularly good in a newly united Germany. On […]

In the United States, connector makers are just about reconciled to the adverse conditions of their business: the routine price erosion, vendor reductions and consolidation of major players in a […]

AN EXPANDING GNP BRINGS GAINS WEST GERMANY'S $1.2 trillion economy, now in its seventh straight year of steady growth, should expand another 3% to 3.5% in the year ahead, well […]

THE JUGGERNAUT GETS FINE-TUNED JAPAN'S ELECTRONICS juggernaut continued on its profitable path in 1989 and is sure to stay on track this year. But that's not keeping industry planners from […]

SOLID GROWTH, BUT AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE THE YEAR JUST ENDED was a good one for France's economy overall and for its electronics businesses in particular, and this year should be […]

IT'S A FLAT, FLAT, FLAT, FLAT WORLD IN WHAT SOME ARE calling a year of correction for the UK electronics industry, 1990 will be virtually flat. The only bright spot […]

A MATURING MARKET REMAINS ROBUST FORECASTING GROWTH in the local-area-network market used to be as easy as throwing darts. As long as the targets were between 50% and 100%, you […]

IT'S BECOMING A BUYER'S MARKET THE 1990s WON'T open on an auspicious note for most of the computer market. Growth in minicomputers and mainframes, which hit the skids three years […]

Forecasting can be a tough business. Come to think of it, millions of people rely on a forecaster's predictions to do everything from getting dressed in the morning to investing [...]

Forget consolidation. Florida expects a record number of new community banks this year, and you can blame entrepreneurs. County officials in Orlando alone are looking at half a dozen potential [...]

Fish farming is poised to overtake cattle ranching as a food source by 2010, according to Lester R. Brown, board chairman of the Worldwatch Institute. The world's once-bountiful natural systems [...]

Child malnutrition and food insecurity are likely to remain widespread in 2020, according to World Food Prospects, a report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a think tank [...]