a higher percentage of ad dollars will be designated for specialty sites, especially those with technology news offerings.

One wonderful thing is, we have a totally unique technology. But that's also the bad news. We have to solve problems that no one knew existed. We're constantly being surprised.

This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high standards, preserve its integrity and build on its achievements.

The collaborative efforts of Dai Nippon Printing Company and Intel will provide the opportunity to develop mask technology that will be critical as we continue to track Moore's Law. We have been successful in the past working with DNP, and this reaffirms the commitment of both companies to develop leading-edge mask technology for future generations of semiconductor lithography.

Quite simply we've got an absence of bad news, and investors want to buy technology.

The technology of nonstop news and the Internet means that allegations that would have been carefully checked out a generation ago no longer are. We now have a 24-hour-a-day news cycle. News gets used up very quickly and there's a constant hunger for new tidbits.