Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many hassles of moving is notifying credit-card companies, frequent-flyer programs and publishers of your new address. For $15 you can automate the process online at changemyaddress.com Simply fill out a form with your old and new addresses, then browse a well-organized list of hundreds of companies (everything from insurance companies to alumni clubs) and select the ones you want to notify...
...most pressing of such concerns has been the issue of security. After all, shopping on-line inevitably requires the transmission of credit card numbers, addresses and other personal information necessary to purchase a product and to have it delivered...
MySimon is not the only intelligent shopping agent in the game. Agents such as Jango (http://www.jango.com/) are beginning to partner with leading Internet search engines such as Excite and leading credit card companies such as Master-Card to put together an even easier framework for on-line shopping...
...Murdoch and MCI Corp., should be included, notwithstanding his conviction for violating securities laws and his time spent in jail. Other financial innovators who changed the way we spend and save might also have made the list, including Dee Hock, a little-known businessman who brought the Visa credit card to prominence, and Peter Lynch, who as head of Fidelity's Magellan Fund was America's most successful money manager...
...company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch-card tabulators--forerunners of computers that performed such tasks as running payrolls and collating census data...