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Ziff Communications Co., the nation's largest computing publishing company, went up for sale. The price tag: from $2 billion to $3 billion. The firm is selling all its publishing holdings, including PC Magazine, PC World, MacWorld, MacWeek and several electronic-information businesses. The New York--based company has annual revenues of over a billion dollars and growing. So why leave the business? It's speculated that the Ziff brothers, Daniel, Dirk and Robert, who now run the family's interests, wish to concentrate on other areas of business.To post your view, click Time Message Boards, open Science and Technology...
...going to be somewhere in between a Newsweek and a PC Week," says Gregory F. Corbett '96, editor of the new Harvard Information and Technology Update...
...easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more than one-quarter of the world's 110 million personal computers. Also coveted is the newer and faster Intel Pentium chip, which the Santa Clara, California-based company recently developed to run the latest generation of IBM PCs. In all, thieves...
...Clipper chip has garnered the attention of the full public with coverage in such mainstream media as the New York Times or Time magazine. No longer is the information superhighway an object to be buried in the science section, or relegated to articles in trade magazines like Macweek or PC World...
...slippery slope towards intellectual tyranny. What was perhaps the most intellectually alienating feature of the politically correct movement was that, in attempting to define the acceptable vocabulary of political discourse, it led to the negation of discourse. From the Sedition Act of 1798, to the McCarthy era to the PC-movement, to Harvard Law's speech codes, censorship is a dangerous threat to liberty...