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...public outcry can be already heard resonating throughout the nation. An Internet petition voicing opposition to the Clipper chip has already gathered 45,000 signatures. And a normally divisive coalition of the computer industry giants have voiced opposition to the Clinton administration's new plan. Apple, I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Unisys are all supporting an encryption standard proposed by RSA Data Security that does not have a "trapdoor" for the government to monitor messages and files...
...always found it a breeze to print out envelopes--that is, before someone replaced the two Apple Laser-Writer IIs connected to the two Macs in the laser-printing room with new Hewlett-Packard LaserJet...
...fiber-optic communications. Sales surged about 50% last year, including a 90% increase in Japan and a 110% jump in Europe. AT&T's computer business is in the black and ranks No. 7 in sales, coming up fast behind such world-class firms as IBM, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard...
...pumped new life into the company with a daring diversification strategy. Determined to end AT&T's humiliation in computers, he decided to buy his way to respectability. AT&T eyed several potential takeover targets, including Apple, EDS, Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Wang and Digital Equipment, before it settled on NCR Corp. AT&T first approached the Ohio-based manufacturer in 1988, but retreated after it was spurned by NCR management. Two years later, AT&T made another bid for NCR, but this time it was a $7.5 billion hostile takeover offer that the company could not resist...
...linchpin of Gates' strategy is getting the manufacturers of these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This may not be it, but it is one more step toward the Holy Grail of the paperless office...