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...businessmen, but today they are outnumbered by a new breed of consumer: the computer naive. These first-time customers are more cautious, less technically sophisticated and less convinced that computers will change their lives. By and large, they are right. "For the new consumer, the stuffs been oversold," says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter. "The technology is still too hard...
...Blue, as IBM is nicknamed for its corporate color, had previously said it would not seek control of the smaller company. On another front, IBM introduced two lines of business software for personal computers and thus stormed into a field that has been dominated by small firms. Said Esther Dyson, editor of the industry newsletter RELease 1.0: "IBM wants it all and needs it all. The company has a biological urge to grow...
...DIED. Esther Phillips, 48, dynamic rhythm-and-blues singer who got her start and early hits as a child star in the 1950s with Johnny Otis' blues show, but whose lifelong battle against drugs turned her career into a series of retirements and comebacks punctuated by hits like Release Me (1962) and What a Difference a Day Makes (1975); of liver and kidney disease; in Torrance, Calif. Appearing with the Beatles on British TV in 1965, she was acknowledged by them as a major innovative force in rock 'n' roll. Her death came only three weeks after...
...continued to be maintained under Byzantine rule. In 1971 a plan was devised to build a cluster of town houses and a shopping mall along the nearby Street of the Jews. But when ancient column stubs were found, from both Roman and Byzantine times, Architects Peter Bugod and Esther Niv-Kren-del kept redesigning the prizewinning project to keep pace with the digging. The result is a stunning feat of urban design. Shops have opened in the ancient arcades. The great columns lend drama to the mall. Above this living museum are new houses. Nearly 2,000 years are linked...
...time cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager of the Emporium-Capwell department store in Palo Alto, Calif.: "We're going to have the biggest Christmas ever. Everything is selling." Merchants ranging from Gucci in Beverly Hills to the McRae's department store chain in Jackson, Miss., are ringing up their highest daily revenues on record. Last week...