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Much of the talk about such privacy and security issues centers around mega-unethical-corporation X and its trade secrets. However, big companies aren't the only ones vulnerable to having their information viewed or manipulated...
...where, rather than pay for phone calls by the minute, "people will in effect just pay a subscription rate to have access to a network." And while all-you-can-talk (or watch, or surf) lines could be a dream for consumers, they will be a nightmare for the mega-Bells, which must add new subscribers faster than they lose revenue to new competitors and pricing pressures. Some firms, like AT&T, hope to find lucre in international markets, where telephone demand is growing in the triple digits. Says AT&T CEO C. Michael Armstrong: "Societies are attempting to rise...
...first-year who had never taken a collegeexam, the possibility of a mega-final wasnone-too-appealing, Haynes says, and she stumbledout of UHS, a pink Band-Aid covering the placewhere the fluid drip went into...
Personal security is a factor in this new, wide-open world. A growing number of companies are taking extra steps to ensure their employees' safety as they log those mega-miles. Don Hubbard, national director of security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with...
...also have a way of being the solution to every problem, from low profit margins in mega-corporations to low test scores in public schools. Politicians and CEOs are racing to the soap box arm in arm, hailing you as the way out. If only the kids could have computers, maybe they'd become more literate, stop smoking cigarettes and cancel that shooting spree they were planning for the nonexistent recess...