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...nation's poorer areas, however -- places like Washington's Anacostia neighborhood, the hollows of Appalachia or Miami's Liberty City -- families with IBM Activas, NEC CD-ROM drives, modems, Internet connections and all the other paraphernalia so beloved by computer users are few and far between. Therein lies one of the most troubling aspects of the emerging information age. In an era in which success is increasingly identified with the ability to use computers and gain access to cyberspace, will the new technology only widen the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, blacks, whites and Hispanics? As Commerce...
...world''s most notorious computer hacker ? raises troubling new questions about commercial interactions in cyberspace, says TIME technology writer Josh Quittner. Mitnick, 31, was able over the years to hack into various computer systems and get access to privileged information from big-name companies like Digital, Motorola and NEC. He also obtained a copy of credit card numbers of 20,000 members of Netcom, a San Jose-based Internet provider. "If Netcom can''t keep those numbers secure, how can L.L. Bean?" says Quittner. Most troubling is the fact Mitnick had managed recently to get access to high-powered...
Much of the discontent is aimed at Clinton. The President has been unable to decide on how to replace Rubin at the NEC or Mike Espy at Agriculture. The race to take over the Democratic National Committee has cooled since the party discovered a $5 million debt. Nor has Clinton been able to persuade anyone to take charge of his re-election effort. One reason: few believe Clinton can prevent his wife, his top White House aides or his outside consultants from taking over...
Software giant Microsofttoday announced alliances with 10 companies -- including phone giant U S West and Germany's Deutsche Telekom, the world's largest cable company -- to test and deploy itsworldwide interactive TV. Part of the deals: Hewlett-Packard and NEC will join General Instrument in developing TV set-top boxes compatible with the Microsoft's Tiger TV software system. Some industry analysts think Microsoft, seen as lagging behind similar interactive projects from Time Warner, Viacom,Bell Atlanticand others, might now be poised to pull ahead. The company's chief, Bill Gates, predicts a mass market for interactive television in five...
...Intel in the past eight years has turned a $203 million loss into a $2 billion-plus profit and become, since 1992, the world's top producer of semiconductors, knocking Japan's NEC out of the No. 1 spot. Primarily it did so by picking out and pushing one product line: microprocessors, the tiny chips that serve as the brains of computers. It was a gutsy move, since microprocessors are harder to make and require far more research and development than the mass-produced memory chips that Japanese firms have been turning out at prices Intel could not match...