Critics argued that rules designed to regulate 19th-century smokestack industries could not be applied to the computer business.
In the computer business, new factories are coming on stream all the time.
As industry battles go, the latest campaign in the computer business promises to be one of the most bruising so far.
Instead of sticking with the computer business, Mr. Steinberg turned to acquisitions.
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Disks had replaced tapes almost everywhere in the computer business.
So the current downturn in the computer business, the worst in PC-dom's 18 year history, hits Singapore two ways -- in slumping export figures and in falling stock prices.
Now OS X is at the heart of Jobs' plan to eat up market share in the computer business--and extend Apple's reach deep into everything from set-top boxes to mobile phones.
The antitrust case is already having a significant impact on the public's perception of the consumer computer business as the players are being portrayed in a light that is hardly flattering for any of them.
Its early successes in the personal computer business caught the eye of Applecorps lawyers, and in 1981 the two companies signed a secret pact giving Apple Computer the right to use the Apple name for computer products, but reserved for Applecorps the right to use it for music-related enterprises.
"This is like the 1970s in the computer chip business, " says Splinter, flashing a 200-watt smile.
They are also encroaching on computers as well, with 34 percent of people using the smartphone more than the computer for business.
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Competition between the two is expected to heat up now that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems has put it in the computer hardware business.
Apple Chief Steve Jobs seems to have a grim future planned for anyone who wants to challenge his grip on the tablet computer business.
What IBM did when it decided to go into the personal computer business in 1980 was very similar to what you do every Saturday morning.
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And he wants to find out what happens if he pulls a few parts off the wing off the humongous airplane that is the personal computer business.
But that increase was largely artificial, fueled by the up-one-day, down-the-next prices in the computer memory business, says Brian Matas, an analyst with market research firm IC Insights.
Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.
Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market of big American companies, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.
The personal computer business, apparently.
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AutEx was founded by my father, rolled out right at the dawn of the computer age in 1968, and can truly claim to be the first eCommerce business: the first computer network used to make money.
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The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
That allowed him to disrupt several industries including the music business, the computer industy, cellular telephony, and retailing, too if you consider the app, itunes and ibooks stores.
Other companies that lack IBM's and Sun's levels of foreign revenue and could be more exposed to the risk of a chilling U.S. computer market are Cisco, which splits its business nearly evenly between the United States and the rest of the world, and Computer Sciences, which draws about 70% of its business from the United States.
While still in school, Mr. Steinberg had conceived of the computer-leasing business that would launch his fortune.
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Such frustrations nudged Lieber toward silicon, the mainstay of the computer-chip business.
The loss is down from last year, as the company launches products that aren't tied to the struggling personal computer business.
Twenty-four years ago, when Jobs left Apple the first time, Apple was battling with IBM for control of the nascent personal computer business.
Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.
Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) outlets starting June 10.
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