Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRANCISCO: TIME's David Jackson reports that a federal appeals court decision which forces Microsoft to allow employees improperly classified as independent contractors to participate in the company's benefits programs is likely to have a major impact on freelance hiring practices in the high-tech industry. "This labor issue is significant industry-wide for the precedent it could set. Microsoft was not doing anything other companies in the high-tech industry have not been doing for a long time. Many of them have freelancers who work right alongside full-time employees. The danger is that if these companies suddenly...
Credit CEO Chris Galvin, the founder's grandson, who re-engineered the company. Motorola still has some vulnerability. The firm counts on tech-heavy businesses that may tank if spending by telecom firms softens. But Galvin has convinced Wall Street that he can keep revenues growing. Motorola stock hit a new high of $86 last week, and investors snapped up $800 million worth of bonds for Iridium, an ambitious Motorola-backed satellite project. Now that's mobile electronics. Grandpa would surely approve...
...within arm's length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
According to family and friends, Harvard actually considered many colleges' offers--including those from Georgia Tech and Duke--before choosing the university in Cambridge, Mass. that shares his name...
Flora's ability to attract a foreign high-tech company shows that many Americans have come to embrace rather than fear new technology. The Internet seems to have even more impact on information flow in small towns than it does in large cities. I spent the night in Hutchinson, Kans., at the home of John Scott, who was a missionary in what used to be Zaire and now runs a volunteer housing program. After dinner, I asked him what the latest news was in the Congo, and he turned on his computer to check out the Websites of people...