Biography & History
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 ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 13,2014 )
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, ...
( Category: Industries October 13,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 13,2014 )
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. ...
( Category: Computers & Technology October 13,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Game Programming October 13,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Engineering October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-29 | Author:Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine [Swaine, Paul Freiberger and Michael]

Then, too, they could see that it might be a commercial success. So Cooper built and Kildall programmed, and they came up with their astrology machine, which would stand in ...
( Category: PCs October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Leonard Herman [Herman, Leonard]

Sega Activator The Activator was similar to Mattel’s Power Glove and Broderbund’s U-Force Controller, two peripherals that had been released for the NES in 1989. However, while the NES controllers ...
( Category: Biography & History October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Stephen Toulouse [Toulouse, Stephen]

Its most common effect on individuals is to cause them to make design decisions based on the way customers should use products as opposed to how they actually use them, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 1988-11-15 | Author:Jeffrey Young [Young, Jeffrey]

He also annoyed Smith and Tribble by handing them their notification of raises even though he was not their manager at the time. 6. He interrupts and doesn't listen. This ...
( Category: Mathematics October 13,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Robert Cringely [Cringely, Robert]

Feds should fight exploitation I am currently an employee at IBM. The rumors are true and IBM is laying off a ton of people. They are also telling us to ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Eric M. Jackson [Jackson, Eric M.]

C2it’s shaky launch and the media’s grousing were just background noise in David Sacks’s department; we kept our focus on the actions of PayPal’s primary competitor. Billpoint’s integration into Buy ...
( Category: E-Commerce October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Randall Stross [Stross, Randall]

Scholars and Dollars _____________ Utopian hopes of transforming education with new technology can be found long before Steve Jobs bestowed the NeXT Cube upon the world in 1988. We might ...
( Category: Strategy & Competition October 13,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Sebastian Mallaby [Mallaby, Sebastian]

ONE MILE NORTH OF TIGER’S OFFICE, A SHORT WALK FROM Central Park, Robertson’s friends and rivals at Quantum were fighting a parallel battle. At the start of 1999, Stan Druckenmiller, ...
( Category: Company Profiles October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Ralph Nader [Nader, Ralph]

SPECIAL BAILOUT PROBLEMS The S&L looters are back. A federal judge in California has ruled that Congress broke the government’s contract with Glendale Federal Bank when capital based on goodwill ...
( Category: Economic Policy October 13,2014 )