Back in the early '80s, when the Macintosh computer was little more than an idea, Mike Moritz, then a correspondent for Time, had unfettered access to Steve Jobs and a much smaller Apple Computer.
U.S. debt prices were mixed Monday as stocks hit one year highs and investors braced for a week filled with corporate results.
Ben Cahan wishes he hadn't damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.
Long before fish swam in Macquariums, hipsters got Apple logo tattoos and thousands camped out for days to get into computer store openings, there was a machine.
Microsoft Corp. will delay the release of Office 2008 for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers until the middle of January 2008, in order to fix lingering bugs in the software
Apple shares surged more than 9 percent in extended trading Wednesday after the computer and gadget maker reported that earnings grew 73 percent.
MARKS: Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! You look like a short seller, and you weep like one too! Just one for instance: AP reports that, "Apple blew past Wall Street expectations Wednesday, posting quarterly profits that jumped 88%, fueled by strong sales of its iPod players and Macintosh computers." And remember that's coming off strong comps! Yep. As Shawn Tully calls it: "A perfect calm."
The textbooks say that summer does not officially end until the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 or Sept. 23 (depending on the time zone you're occupying at the time), but for millions of young people it's over the moment the first class bell rings for the fall semester.
Since the legendary 1984 TV commercial that launched its first Macintosh, maverick Apple has prided itself on humanizing personal computing. However, its latest innovation may prove disconcerting to fans: It's a flat-panel LCD screen that can record video as well as display it. New Scientist calls the idea "clever" : Apple has patented a way to insert tiny image sensors in between the LCD cells of a flat-panel monitor. But over on Slashdot, one reader is understandably flustered: "What you're telling me is that Apple is NOT really the enemy of Big Brother, but Big Brother in disguise? I'm so confused. How can there be so many truths?"
Change is inevitable, and that's generally a good thing. Granted, you won't find many dinosaurs happy about the sudden climate change 65.5 million years ago, but in the grand scheme of things the w...
Back in the early '80s, when the Macintosh computer was little more than an idea, Mike Moritz, then a correspondent for Time, had unfettered access to Steve Jobs and a much smaller Apple Computer.
U.S. debt prices were mixed Monday as stocks hit one year highs and investors braced for a week filled with corporate results.
Ben Cahan wishes he hadn't damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.
Long before fish swam in Macquariums, hipsters got Apple logo tattoos and thousands camped out for days to get into computer store openings, there was a machine.
Microsoft Corp. will delay the release of Office 2008 for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers until the middle of January 2008, in order to fix lingering bugs in the software
Apple shares surged more than 9 percent in extended trading Wednesday after the computer and gadget maker reported that earnings grew 73 percent.
MARKS: Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! Happy Dow breaking 13,000 to you! You look like a short seller, and you weep like one too! Just one for instance: AP reports that, "Apple blew past Wall Street expectations Wednesday, posting quarterly profits that jumped 88%, fueled by strong sales of its iPod players and Macintosh computers." And remember that's coming off strong comps! Yep. As Shawn Tully calls it: "A perfect calm."
The textbooks say that summer does not officially end until the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 or Sept. 23 (depending on the time zone you're occupying at the time), but for millions of young people it's over the moment the first class bell rings for the fall semester.
Since the legendary 1984 TV commercial that launched its first Macintosh, maverick Apple has prided itself on humanizing personal computing. However, its latest innovation may prove disconcerting to fans: It's a flat-panel LCD screen that can record video as well as display it. New Scientist calls the idea "clever" : Apple has patented a way to insert tiny image sensors in between the LCD cells of a flat-panel monitor. But over on Slashdot, one reader is understandably flustered: "What you're telling me is that Apple is NOT really the enemy of Big Brother, but Big Brother in disguise? I'm so confused. How can there be so many truths?"
Change is inevitable, and that's generally a good thing. Granted, you won't find many dinosaurs happy about the sudden climate change 65.5 million years ago, but in the grand scheme of things the w...
The holidays are past, the sales are on, and perhaps you're tempted to buy yourself the technology toy that Santa somehow forgot to drop down your chimney.
Apple said last summer that it is switching to Intel microprocessors from the IBM and Motorola PowerPC chips that have powered the Mac for the past decade.
Stocks could start the week stronger Monday as investors weigh some corporate news and a new drop in interest rates.
Stocks edged higher early Monday, as lower oil prices gave otherwise reluctant investors a reason to keep last week's rally going.
Stocks could get a lift from further declines in oil in early trading, although concerns about the economy could keep equities from continuing their recent rally.
Technology stocks closed in the minus column Tuesday as investors worried that a robust retail sales report meant an earlier-than-expected rise in interest rates.
Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.
To head off any moments of sweaty indecision you may have as you shop for the holidays, here's the ultimate gift guide. We skipped the standbys--jewelry, sweaters and such--in favor of fresh ideas ...
This is almost embarrassing, but I actually want to say really nice things about someone: Steve Jobs, CEO simultaneously of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios.
Personal computers are displacing books as the main repositories of knowledge on college campuses. But you need to do some homework. Check with the admissions department to find out if the school r...
A mere 31 years ago, I graduated from the Suffield Academy prep school, in Suffield, Conn., where, needless to say, I didn't use a computer. Recently Suffield wooed a bunch of its old and allegedly...
CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 29, 2002 (Wall Street Journal)--Apple Computer says it has received a record-breaking number of pre-orders for its new iMac desktop computer, a sign that the product may be ...
It's the same old copyright song, copied over and over. Only now the volume is getting louder.
Made of genuine wood-grain plastic that's supposed to resemble rosewood, Harman Kardon's new Champagne Special Edition three-piece computer speaker set is designed for PC-using executives who want ...
Like most people, I wrote the Macintosh off a long time ago. After an 11-year relationship, I dumped the Mac in 1996 and persuaded my partners to switch to a Windows-only network. I thought Apple C...
In more innocent times, people often left their front doors unlocked. The odds of a burglar trying the front door on any given day were small, especially in rural communities.
Combat veterans of the two great format wars of the late 20th century, Betamax vs. VHS and Macintosh vs. Windows, may still be suffering from post-traumatic technology stress syndrome. Brace yourse...
Double Duty
Almost everywhere you go on the Web, you are tracked by tiny software programs called cookies. If you get quotes on your favorite stocks from AltaVista's Website, the ticker symbols you enter are s...
$75 an hour is the average cost for a professional organizer. These neatniks can help you manage the space in your home or office. Call the National Association of Professional Organizers at 512-20...
Steve Jobs, the personal-computer industry's chief aesthetic officer, is in his element. Here in the boardroom at Apple Computer's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, he's the only person seated. Recl...
Arguing with successful innovation is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. Sure, innovation can be glamorous and even profitable, but that shouldn't obscure the costs of mismanaging it. Yes, the...
If you're a compulsive highlighter--someone who leaves a trail of yellow in all her books--you've probably wished for a magic wand that would save the important info so that you could organize and ...
Now that Judge Jackson has had his say, it's my turn. Here are my findings of fact about Microsoft.
On the opposite side of the sun from Earth is a planet just like ours--except for some differences. There, the inhabitants eat McLean Deluxes, washed down with Crystal Pepsi. They glide across lake...
Yaffah daCosta, a 30-year computer systems and project-management veteran, hung out her shingle as a Y2K consultant in Texas a year ago, only to find customers staying away in droves. "There's no b...
Nyaah-nyaah.
As any Saturday morning visit to Home Depot makes clear, the American do-it-yourself tradition is alive and well. That's true in the software business, too. When affordable PCs equipped with speake...
I'm being stalked in cyberspace. Hey, I'm not a naturally paranoid kind of guy, but I'm beginning to feel as if people are watching me to make sure I don't say the wrong thing. And it's making me w...
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Four years ago, Amy Cooper had $5,000 in credit-card debt at an average rate of 18%. Worse, she had zero savings apart from a small 401(k) stash. But the 34-year-old magazine advertising manager fr...
When I was a kid, nothing was more seductive than the jingling, glittering bank of pinball machines that lined the back wall of the bowling alley. That was the home territory of virtuosos with stud...
Winter ice storms. Summer thunderstorms. The electrician working in the office next door. The guy digging with a backhoe down the street. They're all potential enemies of your computer.
A $10,000 Chanel evening gown for $1,000. An $1,800 Armani men's suit for $450. Those are the kinds of bargains sharp shoppers are finding these days. Where? At a fast-growing category of stores th...
IF YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT THE debut a few years ago of the personal digital assistant (PDA), it's probably that the models stunk. Designed for traveling execs and salespeople, the hand-held gi...
IS YOUR COMPUTER UNFIT FOR EVEN THE SLOW LANE OF THE INformation superhighway? Do you long to launch Windows 95, Netscape and other powerful, memory-hungry new programs? If so, you have two basic o...
IT'S A HIGH-TECH VICIOUS CIRCLE. NEW computers get more powerful by the day. Better hardware leads to fancier software, which leads more and more people to bank and E-mail and do their homework by ...
It seemed like a great idea at the time. In February 1987, during a cross-country flight in a private jet, Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corp., and Jerry Kaplan, an artificial intel...
Tired of busy 800 numbers and crowds at the mall? Subscribe to an on-line computer service and you'll find shopping menus with thousands of choices -- including items from such cataloguers as Lands...
Look for competition-fueled price cuts of 30% or so this fall on many of the latest PCs and Macintoshes with built-in CD-ROM drives and stereo sound. A loaded 486 IBM PC, for example, could drop fr...
Given all the laid-off employees still spilling out of corporations (see Managing), it seems almost laughable to speak of a labor shortage. But there are two reasons to take one seriously. In more ...
ARE YOU SMART ABOUT MANAGING YOUR MONEY? Enter our first annual personal-finance contest and find out. You can win $10,000 in cash and a Macintosh computer and be featured in an upcoming issue of M...
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It's easier to add peripherals to a Mac than to a Windows-equipped IBM-style PC, and Apple wants you to know it. This example comes from an Apple internal document entitled ''35 Macintosh Advantage...
NOW that PC companies are worth billions and even software programmers are wearing shoes in the office, the whole technology thing is getting to be kind of a snore. Remember when Bill Gates was sca...
POINT AND SHOOT Have you ever seen a camcorder strapped atop a colleague's computer and wondered what it's for? Chances are your officemate was video teleconferencing by turning the computer screen...
THE BEWILDERING world of tax-preparation software got a lot simpler last year. Competition has pretty much winnowed the field to the two best-selling programs -- MECA Software's Andrew Tobias' TaxC...
SUCCESSION COGNAC Great cognac requires the perfect balance of grape, barrel wood, and time -- what residents of France's cognac region call rancio charentais. But perfection comes at a price: $3,7...
NOW THAT the global marketplace has reached adolescence, it seems almost everyone is under the covers with everyone else. IBM alone has joined in over 400 strategic alliances with various companies...
DESKTOP COLOR COPIER This digital desktop machine can work a triple shift as color copier, printer, and scanner at about one-quarter the price of most free-standing units that perform the same func...
THESE DAYS, THAT bite out of the side of Apple Computer's well-known logo suggests that the company's days in the Garden of Eden are over. Plummeting prices and copycat competition are threatening ...
SUPER STORYTELLER Give the babysitter a break and introduce the children to Kid Works, a software program that makes your personal computer read their own stories aloud. Created by Davidson & Assoc...
After last year's 30% gain in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, there aren't many bargain stocks out there. One way to find the hidden gems is by using a computer and the right investment software...
IBM's announcement that Hitachi will sell Big Blue's notebook computers in Japan adds yet another twist to the dizzying array of alliances, agreements, and partnerships entwining the computer indus...
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When Marla Orth moved her $300,000-a-year health-care consulting business into her Mill Valley, Calif. home two years ago, she prepared for any disaster. She had twin IBM PC ATs, so there was a bac...
When she moved her $300,000-a-year health-care consulting business into her Mill Valley, Calif. home two years ago, Marla Orth prepared for any disaster. She had twin IBM PC ATs, so there was a bac...
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THE YEAR isn't even over yet, but John Sculley is already waxing philosophical. ''Nineteen ninety has been the worst year in my business life,'' says the CEO of Apple Computer as he nudges his cher...
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COLD CANNED COFFEE Beverage makers are peddling a new pick-me-up this summer: iced coffee in cans. Pokka, a Japanese soft-drink giant, has teamed up with California-based Original New York Seltzer ...
Keeping track of your investments can take a pile of paperwork. How long ago did you sell that Kodak stock? If you take your profit on Pactel, what's the annualized return? Personal computers can h...
STEP BACK in time to 1984 -- an eon ago in the personal computer industry. Steve Jobs, then 29, was chairman of Apple Computer and still a good friend of John Sculley, his hand-picked CEO. That yea...
AN ERA IS ENDING. Almost from the day Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs began tinkering in a California garage 14 years ago, Apple Computer has been a deliberately provocative company, eager -- and oftt...
EARLY ONE DAY last year, Duracell CEO C. Robert Kidder decided to spend his first hour at work browsing through a computer system designed for the company's top executives. This time he was curious...
AFTER YEARS of neglect, design is finally getting its due from corporate America. Even into the 1970s, many U.S. companies got away with the wholesale peddling of badly designed products like cars,...
JOHN SCULLEY, chairman of Apple Computer, turns to a VCR in his gadget-crammed office and pops in a cassette. ''Let me show you how the Macintosh will work in a large corporate network,'' he says. ...
Andrea Edmonson used to waste hours every day driving back and forth from the townhouse she shares with her husband Steve Cox to the sales office of their residential real estate development compan...
CAN STEVE JOBS dazzle the world again with a new computer? Come summertime, we may know the answer. Since 1985 the man who started Apple Computer and quit in a huff nine years later has been cloist...
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At 43, John Sculley was among the hottest of hotshots at PepsiCo. President of the Pepsi-Cola division, he was a marketing wizard with a good chance of heading the parent company. Then in 1983 Appl...
A newcomer to Atlanta last year, clinical psychologist David Adams, 41, needed an effective yet discreet way to hang out his shingle. ''I'd wanted to put out a newsletter for some time, and this se...
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