Word: techs
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Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPrivately, Alan Greenspan can crow a little. With one eye on the so-called "new paradigm," in which tech-driven productivity gains naturally outstrip price pressures, and the other eye on a shaky Latin America, the Fed chairman isn?t anxious to raise rates. But some of his FOMC colleagues at that big mahogany table have been getting antsy about the Fed?s turning into a paper tiger, kowtowing to the stock market and letting the economy run wild and free. This week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just...
Those are the people Marcus Courtney represents. A former Microsoft permatemp, Courtney is the founder of WashTech, a new union trying to organize high-tech workers. "The courts have said the charade is up," says Courtney. A band of 16 Microsoft permatemps has formed a collective-bargaining group allied with WashTech. The larger fight at Microsoft is far from over. The company is appealing the ruling; class-action claims over access to its 401(k) plan and health and other benefits are pending...
...particular problem in Colorado's highest peaks--and especially the 54 mountains that top 14,000 ft. The Fourteeners, as they are affectionately known by locals (and a growing stack of outdoor magazines and travel guides), have become a magnet to upwardly mobile climbers sporting high-tech gear and checklists of the peaks they've bagged. More than 200,000 are expected to scale the Fourteeners this year, three times as many as a decade...
After months of fear, loathing and litigation, the music and consumer-electronics industries have decided to try to make beautiful music together. Last week the Secure Digital Music Initiative--a coalition of 100 music, electronics and high-tech companies--announced that it was provisionally blessing a controversial music format known...
...chip is a well-meaning but deeply flawed attempt to help families screen the offerings of a medium run amuck. But there is a low-tech way to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter...