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...well-known 'secret' that McKinsey works for IBM. IBM hires the company as a whole, the experienced as well as the freshmen associates," Chishty, a former Crimson executive, says. "If I know nothing about computers, that's okay, because someone here probably does...
...Crimson, this is a result of our technology, and the fact that late-breaking news often causes the paper's layout to change. Stories are written on IBM PC compatible machines but the paper is laid out on Macintoshes. Since the size, length and style of the headline is usually not known at the time a story is written, and since the two systems are quite different, it is close to impossible for reporters to write their own headlines...
...gets stranger. In order to send Quittner that mail bomb -- the electronic equivalent of dumping a truckload of garbage on a neighbor's front lawn -- someone, operating by remote control, had broken into computers at IBM, Sprint and a small Internet service provider called the Pipeline, seized command of the machines at the supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool...
...IBM delivered a stinging slap in the face today to the chipmaker that provides the brains behind many of its PCs: Intel. Big Blue announced that it will stop shipping personal computers using the Pentium chip because its problems are more significant than previously stated. Intel discovered a problem last summer in its chip but says the probability is so slim -- once every 27,000 years -- that it unlikely to cause problem. "We believe no one should have to wonder about the integrity of data calculated on IBM PCs," G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior vice president, said...
...have been helpful had he researched his facts first. Would you call former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop an 'obnoxious drunken laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...