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...Smart Choice could do the following things, in ascending order. He or she could carry a state: IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, who teaches Government 1540, “The American Presidency,” says modern vice-presidential candidates typically add about three percent to the ticket’s vote in their home state. Kerry’s ideal candidate, then, should come from a state that will swing on a few percentage points...
...When IBM inventor Ed Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled?the number had been stolen and used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia?he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before...
...Interest Research Group. "But it could dramatically weaken the program." Companies want to limit liability and shift responsibility to the states, where rules are more flexible. Federal standards are "rigid and extreme," says Michael Steinberg of the Superfund Settlements Project, an industry group that includes General Electric, DuPont and IBM. "Groundwater must meet standards for tap water, even though at many of these sites no one drinks it. Soil at many sites must be clean enough so people could play in it. The costs exceed the benefits...
...battle required Fiorina to have the courage to collide with history and high emotions. She emerged stronger, and so far so has the company. Producing $3.5 billion of merger savings after promising $2.5 billion bodes well. Of course, cost savings are one thing, sales another. And who would choose IBM and Dell as their competitors? But Fiorina led the company forward on many fronts, modernizing how HP did business, how it was organized and how it looked at the world. Now it's selling printers for $40, using nanotechnology to shrink devices and powering the core of the digital household...
...what Microsoft sells no one else can, because the company controls the source code that makes its programs run. The source for GNU/Linux, however, is free for anyone to take. That freedom is guaranteed by the license that governs it. And that guarantee has led key competitors of Microsoft--IBM, in particular--to invest billions in an OS that has been promised to remain free...