Word: computerizing
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Looking for your family often leads you around the world. Start with a home computer, but when you need to dig deeper, be prepared to branch out, hit the road and become a sleuth
The millennium came early to Warren, Mich.--in 1995, to be exact. When customers at the Produce Palace, a gourmet grocery store, started using credit cards with expiration dates ending in "00," the computer system went to Y2K hell. Technicians spent hours trying to fix the 11 cash registers, while...
From that small beginning, Y2K litigation is swelling to a flood. It was inevitable that Y2K glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century. What's surprising is just how fast the suits...
The computer industry argues that the Y2K bug is not entirely the fault of individual companies but is rather a once-in-a-thousand-year foul-up that has caught the world off guard. Says Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance: "These lawsuits are taking time and energy...
It's rare that comings and goings among top-level technology executives reach the level of high drama, but they did yesterday when Eckhard Pfeiffer and Earl Mason, the number one and number two at Compaq Computer Corporation, handed in their resignations. The news came a little more than a...