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...roughly one-fifth of it went into buying stuff for their homes. The stunning success of the colorful (read: No more beige!) iMac, for instance, not only helped save Apple but has also inspired a raft of whimsically styled, low-cost personal computers from firms like Dell, Gateway and Compaq. The New Beetle rescued Volkswagen's image two years ago and became a catalyst for change in the auto business. Carmakers are finally putting a premium on how their products look because they know that otherwise we won't buy them anymore...
...able to afford it." The most immediate beneficiary of the scheme, of course, is Hewlett Packard, which is now expecting an order equivalent to 4 percent of its 1999 worldwide sales. Corporations with money to burn - Ford has $23.6 billion in cash reserves - ought to expect calls from Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Apple...
...encryption. But groups that promote the free flow of software "emulators" of anything from DVDs to Sony PlayStations over the Web claim the DVD emulator's inventors stole nothing, but merely figured out how DVDs work. Similar arguments are often put forward by computer makers such as Dell and Compaq when marketing IBM clones. Now it's up to Judge William Elfving of the Santa Clara County Superior Court to decide if the web sites are at fault. Unfortunately for him, there are no precedents to download...
...Battle Mountain Gold (-83%), Russell Corp. (-51%) and Toys "R" Us (-29%). Many others were gross laggards (Fluor, International Paper, Kellogg, Reynolds Metals, GM). The analysts messed up by taking Pepsi (+260%) over Coke (+599%), Unilever (+165%) over Gillette (+558%). And a couple of stocks (Waste Management and Compaq) blew up just this year...
...Compaq or Dell, you need Windows," Zittrain said. "You're going...