Direction Of The Computer Industry For 2005, According To Industry Giants
 
   With the new year underway, Seagate is keeping it's visitors informed. Seagate's home page had a top story that covered their recent unveiling of new gadgets. Seagate chose to unleash there new gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), In Las Vegas Nevada. The hard drive is already providing storage capacity for digital video recorders, handheld music players, camcorders and game consoles. Soon hard drives will be common in high-def TVs, portable game systems, car navigation and entertainment systems and multi-function cell phones that combine the capabilities of a camera, digital music and a video player. In their showcase, Seagate presented electronics that are using their hard drives. These devices included a digital video recorder by Scientific Atlanta that has a DB35 series drives. There were also music players from Sanyo, Virgin, Creative, Olympus, and Rio. In addition, Sanyo has a new digital voice recorder that uses the ST1 series hard drives. The music players use the ST1 series drives too. Seagate's last quarter that ended December 31, 2004, showed a revenue total of $1.85 billion. This was an increase from their previous quarter.  
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   With January 2005 ending, Cisco used their virtual space to highlight "Change". A generous amount of space provided for an image of CEO John Chambers with fist on chin, with text about companies changing how they are networked with the world. Drilling deeper into the link, you get a number of quotes from Mr. Chambers under headers such as "Securing Business", "Customer Satisfaction", "Collaboration", "Innovation", and "Productivity". Collaboration was one of our favorites. "People all over the world are changing the way they work, live, play, and learn. At the center of this change is a powerful network that is limited only by the ingenuity and ambition of the people who use it, the businesses that rely on it, and the world that shares it". Cisco's top new story was about learning. They were happy to report a successful learning program. The Jordan Education Initiative (JEI), described as an "ambitious e-learning project" was developed out of a partnership between the Kingdom of Jordan and Cisco Systems. This will be a model in many other nations.  
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   On a different computer industry front, Sun was making statements and continuing to define our computerized world. Sun's top banner/header stated one of their trademarks "The Network is the Computer". Below this an image of blue sky's and a transparent billboard with one word "Solaris". The Solaris operating system and open source code was the major statement. As far as products are concerned, Sun wanted to provide information about their Java Workstation W2100z, that includes AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processors and graphics from Nvidia. One configuration has standard serial and parallel connectors, along with those for USB, FireWire, and Gigabit Ethernet. This mid sized powerhouse has a suggested retail Price of $8695 at the beginning of 2005.  
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