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...monopoly when its software operates 9 out of 10 of the world's PCs? Because it considers nearly every high-tech company--including behemoths like Intel, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and AT&T--to be a direct rival. The company has become increasingly concerned about the breakneck speed at which those companies are forming alliances. America Online is buying Netscape, At Home is buying Excite, Lucent is acquiring Ascend Communications--all deals worked out since the start of the antitrust trial. "This is a yeasty industry," says Microsoft general counsel William Neukom. "It's important to realize how fast things move...
Sources: The DHL Speed of Business Survey, NYPD, Wall Street Journal, Electronic Messaging Association, Pew Research Center...
Maybe the reason Americans don't care that the lines are down between them and Washington is that in the past few years, so many new lines have gone up; people have put out leads, cables, wires, dishes and high-speed traces connecting them to just about everything else. In a hyperconnected digital age, the last thing anyone can afford is an analog connection to a government that doesn't get it, can't keep up and is probably only going to make things worse if it finds you. Gordon Smith, the freshman Republican Senator from Oregon, is worried that...
Driven, impatient, demanding, irritating, Craig Venter has a knack for making the rest of the world run at Venter speed. "I've always felt in a hurry to get things accomplished," he cheerfully confesses. He is in constant motion--lecturing in Europe, raising money on Wall Street, opening satellite centers in California. The closest he comes to relaxing is sailing on his 82-ft. sloop, the Sorcerer. Even that's a challenge. "He seldom goes for a day sail," says his wife Claire Fraser, a noted molecular biologist. "When he goes sailing, he's got to cross oceans...
...technology, Venter announced his plans to sequence the human genome rapidly. He founded Celera with Perkin-Elmer and promised to publish results freely on a quarterly basis. From now on, Venter said, he was in the information business, selling access to the genomic data he was gathering at breakneck speed...