Teamwork plus technology cuts development time

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Technology is most profitable when integrated into products and gotten to the market quickly. A shorter product life cycle means R&D applications must be considered from the beginning, and that there must be constant contact between research, the factory floor and other departments. Customer involvement and the use of computer design tools are also helpful. For instance, in the hard disk drive market, JVC's push to develop a 3.5-inch 80Mbyte drive was not fast enough, and another company released a 100Mbyte drive when JVC's 80Mbyte drive was ready for the market. Research begun at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was not brought to market fast enough by parent company Xerox; subsequently the windows and icon technologies developed at PARC were marketed by other companies.

Photographic equipment and supplies, Xerox Corp., XRX, Industrial research, Product life cycle, International competition (Economics), Research and Development, Product Development, Japanese Competition

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When the car was out, the business was in

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William Hewlett and David Packard began project development in a small garage in Palo Alto, CA, built in 1905. The site has been declared a historic landmark, and is considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Hewlett and Packard built their first device, an audio oscillator, in the garage and demonstrated it in 1938 at a meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers. The project was partly underwritten by International Telephone and Telegraph, which purchased the foreign patent rights. By the end of 1939 HP had $5000 in total sales and had hired the first employee. They moved out of the garage in 1940 and had a worldwide net income of $8.1 billion in 1987.

California, Hewlett-Packard Co., Entrepreneur, Companies, Company Profile

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HDTV and the new digital television

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Domestic companies in the US, Japan and Europe are forming alliances in striving to usher in digital broadcasting technology. Digital transmission technology has wide-ranging potential applications in data transmission, wireless telephony and, among other things, in offering multiple television programs on one channel.

Innovations, Digital television, High-definition television, High definition television

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