The power of the media is simply amazing. If you have a good story to tell as in the case of AsiaCoin, you can use it to you advantage, if you know how. It can also destroy you if you don’t. I hope that at least a few of you are taking the time to learn a little about my background. If you have a team interested to exploit the PR angle I will be delighted to work with you. Again, it's your call. This will be the last article I am posting, as I do not want to use up your value space.
Dauphin Technology was indeed a media sensation with multiple news stories on a weekly basis for a number of years. Since the release of the DNotes article my name is now linked to a number of them. The one below is of some significance since it verifies a number of my involvements:
Chicago Tribune
BUSINESS
Ibm To Make Pen-based Pc For Lombard Firm
May 20, 1993 - By James Coates.
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Lombard-based Dauphin Technology Inc. has signed a $150 million deal for International Business Machines Corp. to manufacture a pen-based miniature computer that will run Microsoft Windows programs on an Intel 486 chip. The companies emphasized Wednesday that the new machine, called DTR-1 and about the size of a book, is "first of its kind to hit the market"-the smallest computer yet to offer full-blown 486 microprocessor performance.
Dauphin and IBM executives said Wednesday that they will start shipping the machines to customers Sunday.
Dauphin, which has recorded flat earnings recently, came into prominence in 1991 by winning a $400 million contract to supply laptop computers to the Pentagon.
Company President Alan Yong said he will introduce the new machine Monday at the COMDEX computer show in Atlanta, where 75,000 participants will gather next week. Yong believes that being the first to market a subnotebook pen-based device will result in a dramatic improvement in his company's earnings picture.
While industry analysts emphasize that it remains to be seen whether pen-based computers will become as popular as Yong hopes, the IBM deal puts Dauphin ahead of such industry giants as Tandy Corp., Apple Computer Inc. and Motorola Inc., all of which have announced plans for pen-based computers.
Dauphin had sales of $24 million in 1992, almost all of them from its Pentagon contract. But earnings for the last quarter were just $111,739, making the success of the DTR-1 project crucial to the company's future. The IBM/Dauphin contract, signed Feb. 22, also is important to IBM, according to executives there. The deal, they said, marks a major move by the world's biggest computer company to improve its fortunes by using underutilized factories to make hardware for other computer companies.
Lynn Denton, an IBM spokesman involved with the Dauphin project at IBM's Austin Industrial Business Center in Texas, said the deal marks the largest agreement to manufacture computers for a competitor at the Austin factory, which employs 3,500 people and makes IBM's PS/1, PS/2 and RISC System lines.
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-05-20/business/9305200013_1_pen-based-dauphin-technology-risc-systemAsiacoin has a great story to tell. It seems that most have jumped ship. We have a great team! Thank you.
What to do now? Well Dyna, I will pay you what I can for you to be our PR person?
