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...When IBM announced its quarterly results last Monday, the news seemed like the last, grateful chapter of some Joseph Conrad epic. IBM had returned from its arduous journey to the land of lesser companies. It had produced a solidly black summer. Profits, the company said, rose ahead of expectations; hot new IBM computers such as the ThinkPad 560 were rocketing off the shelves for the first time in decades; and the company's services business, which helps firms get up to the warp speed of the infobahn, had booked a mind-blowing $11 billion in business in the first nine...
...things are incontrovertible. Vice President Al Gore announced the new encryption initiative at midweek, timed to coincide with support from an alliance of high-tech businesses that included such hardware heavyweights as IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. However, most of the big software makers--and every civil liberties group--still opposed...
...participants did what they had to do," said IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter. "President Clinton was primarily engaged in defending his record. He was quite successful in focusing on his past accomplishments...
Micro Center carries a very poor selection of PC notebooks; they only sell the Winbook line, which are sub-par compared to Toshiba and IBM models. They do sell a wide variety of desktops, but bring money for a taxi to take things home...
...national chain CompUSA has an outlet nearby (Corner of N. Beacon and Market St., Brighton), but I would steer clear if you're looking for quality systems. CompUSA's prices are rock-bottom, but the machines they sell--IBM Aptivas, Compaq Presarios, and Packard Bells--are all designed for the home market, not a college dorm. These computers may seem like good deals in the short-run, but you may have problems expanding them in the long term...