Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze President, United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development Rome, Italy Raffi Khatchadourian's article about Affectiva and the business of computers reading emotions addressed an exciting area of contemporary research ("We Know How You Feel," January 19th).
After 20 years of covering the business of computers and technologies, there wasn't much about the new machine that really got me excited nothing like the time I booted up my first PC, an Epson Equity 1 sure, there is a DVD drive, and a recordable CD-ROM, but so much of a computer is defined by its operating system that they all begin to look alike after a while.
In contrast E.D.S., an information technology company, is a major player in the business of operating computer operations for other companies.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chip sets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
David Cheriton, a computer science professor at Stanford known for his skills in software design, and Andreas Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, have committed $100 million of their money, and spent half that, to shake up the business of connecting computers in the Internet's big computing centers.
I.D.C. itself appears more pessimistic about the overall prospects for the business of selling computers, however.
It is now fully invested in the business of building computers and the software and services that power them, for better or worse.
Any company in the business of producing computers that are intended to be small and portable can't help but at least give Transmeta's Crusoe chips serious consideration when mapping out its design.
Dictaphone is in the business of selling the computers and software that hospitals, police departments and financial firms use to record and transcribe billions of phone calls a year.
