See any of the stories on the Seiko Epson Co Seiko Receptor wristwatch pager in the press last week? Japanese manufacturers have a reputation for milking their foreign partners for their ideas and technology and then going it alone, so you wouldn’t expect them to mention the Plessey Semiconductor chips that power the thing, but AT&E Corp has reason to feel a little miffed – none of the press we encountered made any mention of AT&E, despite the fact that the whole thing was the San Francisco company’s idea and it simply commissioned Seiko to make the watches – and despite what Seiko says, it will be AT&E that markets the service and not Seiko.
