Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Communication between Wahid and Megawati will become vital in the months ahead, as a new Cabinet is chosen and the political odd couple set about governing the country. "Because Gus cannot read documents, the question is who will control the flow of information to him," says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Cabinet minister. "There will be fierce competition over who is going to whisper in his ear." Or his mobile phone...
...These are programs with bizarre names like Back Orifice or Net Bus that can be hidden in an e-mail attachment--say, one of those animated birthday cards people seem to like e-mailing. Once you open it, you've installed the software--and the wily hacker has remote control of your...
...here's the good news. Such attacks are still rare; they can easily be detected; and all it takes to prevent them is common sense. Turn off file sharing in your network control panel. Add password protection to your most precious files. And for goodness' sake, don't ever, ever open an e-mail attachment from someone you don't know and trust like family...
...business as usual. Start with the search for workers. Unemployment has dropped nationally from 7.8% in June 1992 to its current 4.2%. Add to that the challenges of meeting tough demands from Big Business customers, avoiding the pitfalls of e-commerce and financing a fledgling firm without losing control, and you've got a climate for small businesses that is at least as challenging, and sometimes as fatal, as a sharp business downturn...
Gregg Garnick learned a lesson about control the hard way. In 1994 he started a technology business in his basement with $100,000 in personal savings. His company developed video-capture cards for laptops, the forerunner to digital-video-disc technology. When the business started to grow, Garnick went to a venture capitalist. By 1996 Garnick's company had come up with the technology for DVD decoding. Says Garnick: "We were the first company in the world to demonstrate working dvd capability...