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Unseating Dell is one thing; usurping IBM or Cisco remains a longer shot. But HP clearly has their attention. After nearly a year of very public infighting, Cisco finally booted HP from its privileged-partner circle in February, cutting off all proprietary information. Speaking on a corporate blog, Cisco exec Keith Goodwin minced few words: "We are taking this action to be transparent to both partners and customers - we will compete with HP for future business...
Carlton Cuse: I didn’t know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. Then I met this guy who was a few years ahead of me. He was a young exec at a movie studio and he came back to Harvard with a few people involved with “Airplane.” They wanted to test it with a smart audience to help them time the jokes for the movie. I helped them set up a screening in Science Center...
...debt. By 1930, UPS had expanded to the East Coast. Air service was available in every state by 1978 and in 200 countries 15 years later. "As World War II ended, we were still primarily delivering housewives' packages from the market," says Greg Niemann, a UPS exec who worked at the company from 1961 to 1995 and is the author of Big Brown. "If we hadn't looked ahead and moved from retail to wholesale [shipping], we would have been out of business a long time...
...spend an inordinate amount of time browsing the Web every day. As a Google exec put it, "Many users probably spend more time in their browser than they do in their car." Yet most of us barely notice which browser we're using - we tend to stick with whatever comes loaded on our computer, as long as it allows us to check our e-mail, do a little shopping, peruse Facebook and send the occasional tweet. We live and work within a browser, and it makes no difference whether it's Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari or Mozilla...
...when the column was due. Which is how I decided on the Google guys, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They have a publicist who returns e-mails. And if I've learned one thing these past 10 years, it's that without the help of a high-level exec at their company, there's nothing a man can do to stop his No. 1 Google image from being a high school photo of himself at the Jersey Shore with a mullet down to his butt. (See the best pictures...