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...less clever but has a mischievous twinkle in his eye. When he drops little asides--"Let's make the little windows actually explode when you close them," he tells a group presenting new desktop software--no one seems certain whether to laugh or start writing the computer code. Both men often rise from the conference-room table to pace or to grab a snack or just to appear bored. In a culture of creativity, there's nothing wrong with keeping people off balance...
...Googleplex" headquarters in Mountain View have become iconic. There is also a sand-volleyball court, a pair of heated lap pools and, for some reason, a ball pit with dozens of brightly colored plastic balls, like the one you throw the kids into at Ikea. The dress code? "You have to wear something," says Schmidt. And even he can't explain the (phoneless) London-style phone booth that stands in one hallway--"Who bought that?!" he wonders aloud, sounding like the sole sane person in a loony bin. Above all, there is Google's fetishistic devotion to food; the company...
...done for profit." And it's done from anywhere in the world, so catching the bad guys can be complicated. Ullrich estimates that there are 10 or 20 cases a day, compared with virtually none three years ago. More sophisticated viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious code, meanwhile, are the new weapons of choice for committing identity theft, bank fraud, even industrial espionage. Computer crime costs U.S. businesses an estimated $67.2 billion a year, according...
...leave at least that much space), less cluttered departments (15% of display racks will be removed), upgraded fitting rooms (with plasma-screen TVs in the waiting area), stores that are easier to navigate ("way finding" signs will guide shoppers) and more help looking up prices (at least 35 bar-code readers in every store). The changes may sound cosmetic, but Lundgren hopes they will distinguish Macy's from its competitors: Macy's would offer high fashion without high prices but in a more chic and comfortable setting than that typically found at a discounter...
...dolphin-shrieking peers--has made her kind of, well, cool. Since U Been Gone was named the third-best single of 2005 in the Village Voice's industry-wide poll of music critics, which a few years ago would have been as inconceivable as seeing The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on the list of Pulitzer finalists. "There are so many people who've made millions of dollars and don't deserve to be allowed into a recording studio," says indie rocker Ted Leo, whose cover of Since U Been Gone is a much swapped Internet...