epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Now I’ve been in a lot of bands over the years, from playing guitar in my friend’s garage when I was 16, to playing at festivals when I was 23, ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Jonathan Gatlin [Gatlin, Jonathan]

* * * The other day someone asked me, “Can’t Microsoft work with people so that they can be successful too?” That night I looked at a chart comparing Intel’s ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-30 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Ken and Jay would be talking about the intricacies of some aspect of programming language—like trying to figure out, when somebody says “List by customer,” what that really means. Does ...

mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Ken Auletta [Auletta, Ken]

CHAPTER 12 Nerds in the Bunker BEFORE THEY PRESENTED their witnesses, Microsoft was certain that they would incontrovertibly prove their facts. Afterward, the company’s leadership was furiously mad—mad at Boies, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:David Kushner [Kushner, David]

since the 1970s—when the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, linked networks of computers (the DARPAnet and, later, the Internet) together around the world—it was just starting ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Michael A. Banks [Banks, Michael A.]

128 Chapter 13 AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success The main difference in the two situations was that Apple wasn’t approaching its demise as Commodore was. Apple was healthy and ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffrey R. Yost [Yost, Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffrey R.]

THE SOFTWARE CRISIS The emergence of a software contracting industry helped alleviate one of the most immediate challenges associated with programming computers—namely, finding enough experienced programmers to do the work. ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:David Sheff [Sheff, David]

In the spring of 1987, Howard Lincoln was contacted by the first American companies that were interested in Nintendo’s licensing program. The first American licensee was formed specifically for the ...

mobi |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Frank Rose [Rose, Frank]

The next test of Apple’s consumer-marketing abilities would come in April, when they introduced the sleek new book-sized version of the II—the II reinvented as an appliance. Though smaller and ...

mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral. It was Apple versus IBM, to the death. He was annoyed at having to defend Macintosh ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Jeffrey S. Young & William S. Simon [Young, Jeffrey S. & Simon, William S.]

All of that changed in a blinding flash at one Pixar meeting. Steve has certain territorial imperatives, like having the right kind of bottled water laid out for a meeting. ...

azw3 |eng | 2002-05-17 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

I left Daniel Sheldon and drove two hours south in the English countryside to have a look at something that had just happened, of which Daniel was unaware, that suggested ...

mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan [Ryan, Jeff]

THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:G. Pascal Zachary [Zachary, G. Pascal]

There is very little margin for error. A single careless [mistake] that causes us to do a rebuild, or otherwise lose a build day, can easily blow 25% of our ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Markoff [Markoff, John]

5| DEALING LIGHTNING Doug Engelbart sat under a twenty-two-foot-high video screen, “dealing lightning with both hands.” At least that’s the way it seemed to Chuck Thacker, a young Xerox PARC ...