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...building, which is named after Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer, the mothers of Microsoft founders William H. Gates III, Class of 1977 and Steven A. Ballmer '77, has been under construction since fall...
...some sense, last week's agreement with Microsoft, a deal in which Bill Gates has taken on a junior-partner role to AT&T, is symbolic of what has occurred. For if Gates has defined visionary business leadership throughout the '90s, then Armstrong may now be emerging as a revisionary visionary in his own right. AT&T, like Microsoft, struggled to form a coherent strategy to embrace the technologies and consumer services emerging in the "post-PC" era. Unlike Microsoft, AT&T has certainly made up for lost time...
...vintage Dow Jones industrial average has risen 1,000 points, while the tech-laden nasdaq has gone flatter than steel slab. In that period aluminum maker Alcoa rose a shiny 55% and joined heavy industrials such as 3M and Phelps-Dodge in posting heady gains. Tech wonders, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, floundered...
...probably didn't help the record companies' cause that just two days before the Universal announcement, RealNetworks launched its JukeBox. RealNetworks is the biggest name in online audio (and video), bigger even than Microsoft. When it declared that JukeBox would embrace the MP3 format--allowing users to effortlessly encode their CDs in it--it was clear to me the gig was up. And to a lot of other folks too. More than 350,000 people downloaded the JukeBox software in 2 1/2 days, the fastest online "uptake" on record...
...wondering, is a compliment. Since his time at TIME, Andersen has been a founding editor of Spy, the editor in chief of New York, a producer of network specials, a staff writer for the New Yorker. He knows the three points of the buzz compass--Manhattan, Hollywood and the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.--as well as anyone. Or at least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment, the journalist's software...