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...London may be Britain's control center, but Reading, 60 km west of the capital, is its tech support. Some of the world's biggest IT and communications firms?including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle and Vodafone?have set up shop in or around the city. So sooner or later, anybody who's anybody in the world of business or technology will find themselves paying a visit to Reading. And now they can lodge at the Forbury, a new luxury hotel aimed at the BlackBerry set. Owner Toby Hunter spent $10 million transforming the Edwardian county hall into a place where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Rooms | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

London may be Britain's control center, but Reading, 60 km west of the capital, is its tech support. Some of the world's biggest IT and communications firms - including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle and Vodafone - have set up shop in or around the city. So sooner or later, anybody who's anybody in the world of[an error occurred while processing this directive] business or technology will find themselves paying a visit to Reading. And now they can lodge at the Forbury, a new luxury hotel aimed at the BlackBerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Rooms | 7/6/2006 | See Source »

What was the first car you ever owned? What kind of car are you driving these days? First car was a 1937 Packard. Paid 60 bucks for it in 1947. Today I drive a Prius, a hybrid SUV and a Volvo wagon with some "stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 12, 2006 | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...spot-on aphorisms, which was first published in 2004 and given out free to Raytheon employees before it found a wide and enthusiastic audience that included Warren Buffett and Jack Welch? Credit goes to Carl Durrenberger, a San Diego engineer, who was packing up his cubicle at Hewlett-Packard to move to another division when he came across a copy of a 1944 chestnut given him by a former boss: The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rule No. 1: Don't Copy | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...least 30% of employers--from governments to hospitals, restaurants to law firms, Wal-Mart to DuPont--use a version of the tests in hiring. Even CEOS get tested, which makes sense given their salaries. Carly Fiorina reportedly took a 900-question test before landing the top job at Hewlett-Packard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: SATs for J-O-B-S | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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