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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with concrete allegations of hyperaggressive businesses tactics streaming in from companies such as Sun, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Intuit, Packard Bell, AOL and now Disney -? on Tuesday the court heard testimony claiming that Microsoft had threatened the Mouse for getting too cozy with Netscape -- one can?t help but get the feeling something unpleasant, if not patently illegal, is going on. At the very least, Gates's image has undergone a downgrade that will take years to make over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Microsoft Trial So Far | 12/18/1998 | See Source »

Some of the most influential business journalism of this heady postwar era was published between the hard covers of books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Like giant vacuum cleaners, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and companies of their kind have been sucking up the brightest people in the world and shipping them to breeding grounds in places like Redmond, Wash. For the first time in history, large numbers of fertile geniuses are living in the same places. The Redmond offspring won't all be geniuses of course; someone has to marry the beautiful people in marketing. But many of the Redmond kids will be frighteningly smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Fool | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print and copy, like the Xerox Document WorkCenter 450CP and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 3100 seen on these pages, stuff these common office duties into compact boxes that easily fit on a shelf and sell for less than $500. And traditional monitors nowadays are coming down in price; they're getting slimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1998 Technology Buyer's Guide: Better Business | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Javanese gamelan ensemble of the Tufts Music Department and Boston Village Gamelan join forces to close World Music Week at Tufts. 8 p.m. Granoff Family Hillel Center, Packard Ave., Tufts University, Medford, 627-3564, FREE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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