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What happens when the computer society meets the litigious society at some Y2K-breakdown point next year? Horrified by the possible multibillion-dollar answer, the high-tech industry, joined by the wider business community, convinced Congress to pass legislation earlier this year limiting company liability in the event of Y2K disruptions. But faced with a threatened log-off from the White House by way of a presidential veto, congressional negotiators sat down with White House aides in the past few weeks to address the President?s concerns that consumers not be shortchanged by the legal system should they come...
...more of a manufacturing and marketing push on such higher-margin products as servers, workstations, notebooks and storage. These products accounted for 39% of Dell's sales in the first quarter of 1999, up from 24% in the first quarter of 1997. Rick Schutte, a high-tech analyst at Goldman Sachs, believes the company is shooting for 50% in two to three years and that it will get there--largely because its PC profits will enable it to price the high-end products below competitors that have scanty or no profits...
...What's up, Appz? You got skillz?" Skat asks, mugging for the camera. She steps back to read aloud his offer to swap pirated content for high-tech gear. "Appz wants to trade a Star Wars screener for a new motherboard PII 200 with a sound card...
...information-systems architect at IXL, an e-commerce-solutions company based in New York City, "consecutive days where it's 5, 6 a.m. and I'm finally going home." And the salaries, while decent, are hardly stratospheric. A New York New Media Association study found that high-tech jobs paid an average of $37,212 a year, tough going in a city where a pizza costs $15, and lower even than salaries in such old-media jobs as advertising...
BUILDING BY THE BOOK. When Bernard Tschumi, a mahatma of architectural theory, does build something, naturally a book follows. Tschumi Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, although risibly titled, is an engaging study of the conversion of an old leisure center in France into a high-tech film-and-performance complex. Tschumi's simple idea--put a canopy over the whole building, roof and all--has led to a fascinating, complex new space...