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...glamorous trappings behind the death of JonBenet Ramsey, 6, underscored how hideously inappropriate such tragedies are. She was a toddler turned beauty queen--Little Miss Colorado of 1995, among other titles--and a child of wealth and privilege. Her father John, 53, is president of Access Graphics, a high-tech, billion-dollar-a-year branch of Lockheed Martin; her mother Patricia, 39, widely known as Patsy, is a former Miss West Virginia (1977) and is active in social and charitable circles. The little girl's strangled body was discovered the day after Christmas by her father in a basement area...
Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
Stop and look at Apple for a second, since it's an odd company. It has been around long enough and has a high enough profile that it's easy to forget that. While most high-tech firms focus on one or two sectors, Apple does all of them at once. Apple makes its own hardware (iBooks and iMacs), it makes the operating system that runs on that hardware (Mac OS X), and it makes programs that run on that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those...
...only have they all drunk the Kool-Aid; they all have the same favorite flavor. They're on a hot streak, and they know it. ("The Sony guys are over there across the street with binoculars," jokes a senior vice president. "They rented space on the fourth floor." High-tech trash talk!) It's almost eerie: Apple employees all like one another, and they have a strong sense that they are the chosen of the earth, and they're not going to be a jerk about it, but all others who dwell on this mortal coil are missing...
...than most of its competition, and it has also been the subject of an incredibly successful marketing blitz that has transformed it from mere music player into status symbol. Further, there are some real benefits to owning the same gadgets as all your friends—accessories are cheap, tech support is easy to come by, and the bragging rights are indisputable.But there are costs, too. Sony, for example isn’t happy about all of this – their substitute product hasn’t fared nearly as well as the iPod, and while this could...