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...women have made great strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that sexism is most keenly felt. Women still earn 75% of men's salaries and occupy only 11.2% of the executive jobs in FORTUNE 500 companies. The top spot at HP, a geek kingdom since the slide-rule era, is the highest position ever held by a woman in a Dow 30 company...
...turns out, there's never been a better time to buy a recordable CD-ROM drive. An appliance that until quite recently rarely made it out of the turbo-geek community has suddenly gone mainstream and is now an option--and in some cases, a standard--on desktop PCs. Even IBM has begun shipping them on selected models...
...journalist's cynicism would quickly nuzzle aside my techno-infatuation. But after squiring the VII around for a few weeks, I'm more in love than ever. For years the notion of an easy-to-use device that connects man to Net--from anywhere--has been the stuff of geek dreams. Now, at long last, vaporware has been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under Manhattan ("Stop showing that thing in the subway!" she wrote. "You'll lose it...") and whined at editors while on the railroad whizzing to work...
Rumors in Silicon Valley and inside Microsoft abound that the sabbatical is the presentable public face that has been put on a very private ousting orchestrated by Microsoft's president, Steve Ballmer. According to one source, Myhrvold, once hailed as Bill Gates' favorite geek, has been given the golden boot for putting his outside interests before his job. (Not your usual geek, Myhrvold pursues paleontology, cosmology, zoology, Formula One car racing, gourmet cooking and piloting his $38 million Gulfstream jet.) For the past year, Myhrvold has seemed to be on an unofficial sabbatical, out of the office more than...
Lucky for Bill Gates that he's the world's richest geek. Already saddled with three trials about existing Microsoft software, Gates now has to defend an operating system at the heart of what's supposed to be next year's Big Thing. Two days after the trustbusting main event got going again in Washington, Danbury-based Bristol Technology Inc. opened its own suit against the Redmond giant, claiming that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft...