Word: ibm
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Maloney is taking his cues from China's bureaucratic stratosphere, where top officials can't spend enough time chatting up Microsoft, Intel, ibm, Cisco and other members of the Net's royal family. "We can barely keep up with the demand for information," he says. In January the Chinese government approved a new series of laws designed to control how citizens connect to the Internet. But although the laws featured the usual restrictive rhetoric, they were clearly designed not to keep the Chinese off the Net but to get them online in an orderly...
...computers. And while it faces the hostile glare of investigators on one front, Microsoft has lost a foothold on another: Bob Herbold, its candidate for one of six open slots on the board of the Software Publishers Association was rejected yesterday. It's especially galling considering that, with IBM, Microsoft is the SPA's largest dues payer, laying out $100,000 a year to be a member of an organization that lately has been increasingly critical of Microsoft...
...level, these mergers just feel right. The nation seems to take great pride in having the world's largest software company (Microsoft), largest computer company (IBM), largest car company (GM), largest oil company (Exxon) and so on. With these mergers, America could well have the world's largest financial institution again. And that's as it should...
...painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...
...antitrust matters [TECHNOLOGY, March 16], Bill Gates said, "At the end of the day, there's only one question: Are we allowed to innovate?" But that is not the issue. It is whether he will sell a product that allows others to innovate and compete in the marketplace. If IBM had used tactics similar to those of Gates' Microsoft in negotiating the design of DOS with Gates & Co., the history of the personal-computer industry would have been significantly different. Gates needs to be reminded of this. ROGER J. PATTERSON Muscat, Oman...