Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over their radios, unaware the commands are phony. Their troops are rendered ineffective as they scatter through the desert. U.S. planes, specially outfitted for psychological operations, then jam the enemy's TV broadcasts with propaganda messages that turn the populace against its ruler. When the despot boots up his PC, he finds that the millions of dollars he has hoarded in his Swiss bank account have been zeroed out. Zapped. All without firing a shot. A glow comes over Colonel Tanksley as he talks about this bloodless retribution. "We may be able to stop a war before it starts...
...playing poker over the computer networks, how do you know your opponent isn't pocketing your winnings? Rogers, a computer expert from Las Vegas, is putting the finishing touches on a device he hopes will put those fears to rest. The hardware, which plugs into the back of a PC, is a kind of gambling "smart card" that is supposed to use powerful encryption to record all transactions between the house and the player...
...thing to bring to the computer-software business, where shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and intricate co-dependencies make plotting long-term strategies hazardous. For example, Software Arts, which invented the electronic spreadsheet, lost its market to Lotus because it failed to anticipate the impact of the IBM PC. Lotus, in turn, failed to recognize the importance of Windows and the Mac, and was overtaken by Microsoft...
...company with $4 billion in the bank. I don't think we'll disappear. We're not like Time Warner, with $15 billion in debt. But if you had to take one thing in the next year and say what will our biggest impact on the PC industry be, it would clearly be Windows 95. Windows 95 is a very, very big deal...
...announced a $3.3 billion hostile takeover bid for Lotus Development Corp., maker of the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and other software. "Together, our skills match in a way that is breathtaking," IBM's chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner told a news conference. (Lotus, the third-largest PC software company after Microsoft and Novell, rejected IBM's buyout suggestions during five months of private talks, but today said it would consider the $60 per share cash offer, which amounts to twice its market value.)TIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWittsays the move, which would be the biggest takeover...