He founded luxury and gaming computer manufacturer VoodooPC, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard, bringing with it the ENVY product line and its related technology and design inspirations.

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Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.

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Unfortunately, Amazon quietly scooped up the startup in January of this year (to have this sort of technology available for the Kindle product line), and in turn, shut down TouchCo's involvement with the outside world.

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The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products.

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Christoph Winkelmann of Swatch says the Access technology is making a big comeback in this year's product line, as the company targets new applications.

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