Credibility
Paumanok: Not Only News Reporters, But News Makers
- Mike Langberg/March 8, 2003/Mercury News. "It's a good thing when computer manufacturers push suppliers to offer the lowest possible prices. It's a bad thing when suppliers are pressed so hard they cut corners and deliver defective components -- and it's not always easy to tell when this invisible line is crossed. That's the moral of a complicated story involving a courageous market researcher in North Carolina, stolen trade secrets and leaky capacitors that are damaging at least a small number of personal computers around the world..."
- Christina Dyrness/March 13, 2003/The News & Observer. "...Zogbi's small company in Cary, Paumanok Publications, provides PC industry types a clear picture of their supply chain of computer parts --from the mines where some components origionate to the various levels of manufacturing, assembling and shipping --through regularly published reports and custom market research. Zogbi said his discovery -- and the resulting atention when other industry publications followed up on his scoop -- meant that thousands of faulty parts, which were exploding their corrosive insides and crashing computers, were mostly weeded out at the assembly level..."
