Wall Street Journal, Dec 5, 2012

choi

(1) John Mitchell, Women Notch Progress; Females now constitute one third of nation's ranks of doctors and lawyers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 59433220839020.html
("Women held 33.4% of legal jobs—including lawyers, judges, magistrates and other judicial workers—in 2010 * * * The share of female physicians and surgeons increased to 32.4% * * * In 1970, women were 9.7% of the nation's doctors and just 4.9% of its lawyers, according to Census data")

My comment:
(a) A graphic shows a linear increase in both professions between the two years mentioned above.
(b) There is no need to read the rest.


(2) Daisuke Wakabayashi, Qualcomm Tosses Financial Lifeline to Sharp; US chipmaker to invest up to $120.4 million for stake and team up with electronics firm on mobile-device display.
(title in print).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 58541139553314.html

My comment:
(a) This is a wonderful report. Pay attention to the second half--starting with the paragraph that says, "Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co * * *
(b) I am surprised by the statement: "Qualcomm recently said it would discontinue plans to manufacture displays using a technology called Mirasol at a Taiwan factory."


(3) Chad Bray, No Jail Time in Fed Case.
(Bo ZHANG, a contract employee in summer 2011 for Federal Reserve Bank of New York was sentenced to six months of home confinement, after pleading guilty in May for transferring proprietary software to his personal computers. He did not share the computer code with anybody else. To be deported)

choi

Yesterday I wrote, within (2), that I was surprised that Qualcomm discontinued production of Mirasol.

Richard Lai, Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf Talks 28nm Supply, Low-End Market and Displays. Engadget.com, Dec 5, 2012
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/05/qualcomm-coo-steve-mollenkopf/
("Last but not least, a question was raised regarding the status of the seemingly dormant Mirasol MEMS display technology. Even though Qualcomm's already pulled out of production in favor of a licensing model earlier this year, Mollenkopf insisted that his company continues to invest in the butterfly-inspired Mirasol, only to put the business focus onto a new mysterious class of product as opposed to the old e-reader and phone space")

The "pulled out" link leads to

Jon Fingas, Qualcomm Axes Its Own Mirasol Production, Will Only Bring Some Devices to Market Itself. Engadget.com, July 23, 2012.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/ ... mirasol-production/

full text: "Talk about flying under the radar. While everyone's focus on Qualcomm's results last week centered on the mobile chip business going gangbusters, the company quietly revealed during its fiscal results call that it's backing out of producing Mirasol displays itself. CEO Paul Jacobs instead wants the company licensing out the butterfly-inspired screens to interested companies and will limit its direct commercialization to 'certain' devices. The company isn't explaining why beyond the plan more closely matching 'addressable opportunities,' although the absence of any widescale launches (and unconfirmed but repeated talk of low yields at The Digital Reader) suggests that factory output never quite reached critical mass. We're hoping that someone picks up the color e-reader torch before too long and delivers more than just the reference model derivatives we've seen to date.