Word: macworld
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After a year and an investment of more than $50,000, Macworld's offices are still not RSI-proof, but they are ergonomically correct. Much of the computer industry, by contrast, still seems to be in denial. Even in advance of the osha proposals, the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association -- which represents two dozen computer makers -- petitioned the agency to back off, arguing that guidelines are premature because the link between computer keyboards and RSI has not yet been proved. But the companies know better, according to a lawyer representing RSI victims in the IBM and Atex lawsuits. Internal...
Computer viruses are sneaky, omnipresent and out of control -- but are they alive? The British physics giant Stephen Hawking thinks so. In a speech given at Apple Computer's Macworld Expo in Boston, the wheelchair-bound author of "A Brief History of Time" mused that computer viruses meet all the definitions of life, except for the fact that they have no metabolism. Instead, Hawking said, they're parasites that feed off the metabolisms of the host computers they destroy: "I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely...
Ziff Communications Co., the nation's largest computing publishing company, went up for sale. The price tag: from $2 billion to $3 billion. The firm is selling all its publishing holdings, including PC Magazine, PC World, MacWorld, MacWeek and several electronic-information businesses. The New York--based company has annual revenues of over a billion dollars and growing. So why leave the business? It's speculated that the Ziff brothers, Daniel, Dirk and Robert, who now run the family's interests, wish to concentrate on other areas of business.To post your view, click Time Message Boards, open Science and Technology...
...Apple system software is set for public introduction in August at MacWorld Expo in Boston. Users purchasing Macintoshes or PowerBooks during the fall semester will likely receive System 7.5 as the built-in system software...
...founder's approach seems to be paying off. When Macworld magazine selected the 10 best Macintosh CD-ROM programs for its March issue, three were ours: TIME Almanac 1993 (Best Almanac CD), Clinton: Portrait of Victory (Best Politics CD) and Seven Days in August (Best History CD). Seven Days is a multimedia account of the week in 1961 when the Berlin Wall was erected. "Of all the discs I surveyed," wrote Macworld editor James A. Martin, "this one is my favorite, for it best exploits the real potential of CD-ROM as a medium that can add depth and perspective...