Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crushing fall. In the Standard & Poor's 500, Morgan Stanley reports that just 15 stocks (3% of the total) accounted for 52% of the index's gain last year. "The market" may be going up, but it's almost entirely on the backs of a favored few: GE, IBM, Wal-Mart, Merck--all Dow components--along with tech wonders Microsoft, Dell (which I own) and Cisco...
...writers called it, took the spotlight, ENIAC had a lot of unsung rivals, many of them shrouded in wartime secrecy. At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing built a succession of vacuum-tube machines called Colossus that made mincemeat of Hitler's Enigma codes. At Harvard, large, clattering electromechanical computers in IBM's Mark series also did wartime calculations. Even the Germans made a stab at computing with Konrad Zuse's Z electromechanical computers, the last of which was the first general-purpose computer controlled by a program...
...three main areas of networking--PC to PC, home entertainment and home automation--are all different," says IDC's Childs. "But eventually they will all merge somehow." Cisco sees its networking software inside everything from TVs to toasters. IBM and Bell Atlantic have said their home networks will be able to include not just PCs but also VCRs and light switches...
...Bill the tousle-haired billionaire is back, bursting with business advice and all the exuberance of a boy genius. Sun, Apple, IBM and Intel are merely examples of companies that use digital nervous systems. You'd never guess they also play a major part in the feds' case. "Trial" to this Gates means nothing more than putting a new software product through its paces...
...antitrust trial. The truce helps establish new limits on the exercise of market dominance. In the Intel case, the microprocessor giant has agreed not to withhold -- or threaten to withhold -- technical information as a way of getting companies to sign away intellectual property rights. Computer makers such as Compaq, IBM and Dell are highly dependent on Intel for advanced information when designing new computers that will make the most of Intel's chips. Intel can still keep information about its chips confidential for legitimate business reasons (e.g., the information is being used to design competing chips...