Word: recording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record companies have yet to agree on a standard for distributing music digitally online, but hope to have one by June. They're worried about protecting copyrights and being able to charge money for downloads. Meanwhile, the Net has already settled on a standard, called MP3, which squeezes CD-quality music into files about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait...
...probably didn't help the record companies' cause that just two days before the Universal announcement, RealNetworks launched its JukeBox. RealNetworks is the biggest name in online audio (and video), bigger even than Microsoft. When it declared that JukeBox would embrace the MP3 format--allowing users to effortlessly encode their CDs in it--it was clear to me the gig was up. And to a lot of other folks too. More than 350,000 people downloaded the JukeBox software in 2 1/2 days, the fastest online "uptake" on record...
...getting them has the business world all worked up. "Women business leaders are tremendously important to our company. We market to moms," says Mary Kay Haben, an executive vice president at Kraft Foods. "We rely on the top business schools to help us find the women with a track record of success...
Well, nobody has faced this job market before. At a time of near record U.S. employment, workers with previous experience are at a premium--wherever they are. Beard is just one of some 880,000 people who will move this year for their jobs. And their new employers realize they must do more than ever to ease the bump of dislocation in order to keep the best and brightest from simply finding another job down the block. This is especially true in the legal, finance, banking, consulting and technology industries, where top talent comes at a premium. In fact, nearly...
...rest. He was all over the place--he steered Interview and Colors magazines in radical new directions; he brought artists into Times Square redevelopment projects; he created books, watches, furniture, posters, signs and menus. I worked with him on a film, a video clip and a number of record and CD covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor had no patience with design that merely made things elegant, pretty or beautiful; he always aspired to design that was equal to the content, that meant something, told us about the way we live...