Like Sun, Silicon Graphics started in 1982, and had been one of the fastest-growing businesses in America during its heyday, selling billions of dollars of computers a year.
COSTA MESA — Federal authorities have charged two men who own a Costa Mesa computer company with illegally exporting millions of dollars of computer-related goods to Iran.
When asked if she was aware that a European subsidiary had sold hundreds of millions of dollars of computers to Iran while she was chief executive, Fiorina said HP is a larger global enterprise than any one of the 50 U.S. states.
Investment banks, because of the complexity of their exposures, have been at the forefront of efforts to measure and manage risks, encouraged further by the approach of Basel 2. They have employed mathematicians and spent billions of dollars on computer systems.
Would I go out and spend hundreds of dollars on computer products?
Often the result is a terrible waste: companies will spend millions of dollars on computer systems, then find nothing better to do with them than print out invoices or keep address lists.
After spending billions of dollars on computer systems for keeping score and using bubble-in testing to fire teachers, President Obama only has relative pennies to invest in the science-based policies of early-childhood development and school readiness.
The San Diego "fusion center" spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on computers and monitors, including fifty-five flat-screen televisions, which officials said were for "watching the news".
I am not so sure I completely buy this approach as I assume that all would-be backpack thieves are as eager to steal a regular backpack that could contain thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment as they are to steal a camera bag that could hold thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment.
Compounding the sense of betrayal and turmoil for many in District 29 was the news last week that the previous permanent superintendent, Celestine V. Miller, was charged in a major bid-rigging scheme in which she is accused of steering millions of dollars to computer companies in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
