You've probably heard all about Google's continuting quest to take over the entire internet galaxy by launching of their own free internet browser, Chrome, since noon yesterday. They have a cute little comic to go along with it, typical of the "candy, beanbags" and "kindergarten esthetic of the Googleplex" that their marketers Read More
ERICA: "OH MY GAAAAAWWWWDDDD!" Yes, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, but "Oh My God," was all I could get out as I sat there staring at my computer screen blankly. My email program crashed. It had a heart-attack, followed by a stroke and then capped it off with an aneurism Read More
Other than a possible hiccup in the volume of telephone sex, did the revelation that the National Security Agency is bugging our phones pack much of a wallop? It did among civil libertarians and privacy fetishists, but it appears that perhaps 150 million citizens of the United States face the possibility of being tapped without Read More
"The possibility of a deal by Microsoft and AOL was first reported by The New York Post." (Microsoft Said to Be in Talks on Forming Link to AOL, by Saul Hansell, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2005.) To spare readers the sorrow, the Times held off on saying it till the eighteenth paragraph. Read More
Despite all the bubble-talk, diving into real estate might not be the best move for would-be brokers,according to Slate. While New York Magazine warned a few weeks ago about broker glut, The Times reported this weekend about the phenomenon on Long Island where you can get certified in only a week (and Read More
Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft , by Fredric Alan Maxwell. William Morrow, 278 pages, $26.95.
I recently caught up with an old friend I hadn't seen in years. The afternoon winding down, I idly asked him whatever happened to his brother, a vicious little punk who ignited neighborhood cats for fun. I Read MoreAnother Bush in the White House, another flagging stock market, another stumbling economy. And, if the mutterings and whispers from Washington, D.C., are to be believed, the West Wing crowd is engaged in another round of Greenspan grumbling.
NewsMax.com, an obscure far-right Web site (board members include Alexander Haig and Arnaud deBorchgrave), reported on Aug. 7 Read MoreDid you get your invitation? You couldn't have missed it:
the gold-embossed wooden box, the faux Fabergé Easter egg nestled in a satin pillow, the creamy stationery, the Pushkin passages. And the pronouncement itself: "Paul G. Allen cordially invites you and a guest to experience the inspiring grandeur of St. Petersburg, Russia. Friday, August 17th to Read MoreLast Sunday, on the fifth hole of the final round of the Memorial Tournament, Tiger Woods hit a shot that everyone except him knew to be impossible: a 249-yard soaring 2-iron that settled as gently as a sparrow (shortly to metamorphose into an eagle) six feet from a pin tucked behind a pond. It may Read More
By nature, I am not anti-technology. As a child, my favorite
toy was a screwdriver. I'd spend my afternoons taking apart-and putting back together-all the telephones in our house. In college, I helped cover the cost of tuition by working weekends rewiring tenements in the slums of Boston. I started writing on a computer when they Read MoreAgainst a black background, a silver Star of Bethlehem formed on my TV screen, grew bigger and closer until it took the shape of a gleaming Cadillac automobile. Christmas time in America and plenty of room at the inn … if you, your mate and the baby have the price, and a lot do have Read More
The rumor spread like a computer virus: After months of being battered in the courts, Microsoft had come up with a solution to its Joel Klein problem. To escape the Justice Department's clutches, the company would simply move to Canada.
The scenario was as nifty as it was improbable: The shining star of America's corporate firmament Read MoreIn an era of spin and fabricated authenticity, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is demonstrating that old-fashioned courage and candor have not disappeared from the political landscape. His announcement that he is suffering from prostate cancer, and his straightforward, even jocular, references to his condition, stand in admirable contrast to today's sappy culture of self-pity and victimization.
The Read More(BLOOMBERG NEWS)-The Internet boom has transformed the idea of the company. A company used to be a group of people who organized themselves for fairly well-defined tasks. But these days the U.S. stock market indulges a new, looser definition. A company is now a group of people who raise capital to do whatever they want Read More
After being tossed out of their magazines, ex-editors in chief Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen are teaming up with hedge fund manager and TheStreet.com proprietor James J. Cramer to start a new on-line publication. The venture, expected to be launched by the turn of the century, is expected to target entertainment industry insiders.
The trio has Read More
