Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date by Addison Wesley Publishing Co $19.90
Ultimate insider Robert Cringely, who was there at the beginning in Palo Alto's Homebrew Computer Club, steps back to relate the whole story of junkfood genius, nerdy naivete, and pencil-necks triumphant. Offering gory details of fortunes won and lost, this is the story not just of how the personal computer industry really works, but why it works, and how to keep it working.
Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry by Michael Dell $15.95
In 1983, Michael Dell, a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, drove away from his parents' Houston home in a BMW he'd bought selling subscriptions to his hometown newspaper. In the backseat were three personal computers. Today, he is the chairman and CEO of Dell Computer Corporation, a $30 billion company and the second largest manufacturer and marketer of computers in the...
The Road Ahead by Viking Pr $29.95
Bill Gates
Embedded Autonomy by Princeton Univ Pr $85.00
I In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer...
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media $11.95
Tells tales of the personal computer pioneers.
Freeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones Novel by Three Rivers Pr $200.38
IBM in Endicott (NY) (Images of America) by Arcadia Publishing $21.99
IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting purposes, to punch cards, to computer chips as small as a raindrop, all are the historical roots of this corporate legend. IBM began with a small group of visionaries whose first factory was in a dismal garret in Binghamton, New York. By the time the...
Competing On Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft by Free Press $17.99
Competing on Internet time means competitive advantage can be won and lost overnight. In this penetrating analysis of strategy-making and product innovation in the dynamic markets of commercial cyberspace, bestselling Microsoft Secrets co-author Michael Cusumano and top competitive strategy expert David Yoffie draw vital lessons from Netscape, the first pure Internet company, and how it has...
In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations With the Visionaries of the Digital World by Mcgraw-Hill $14.95
In the Company of Giants presents groundbreaking conversations conducted with 16 of the digital world's most successful personalities: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, T. J. Rodgers, Gordon Eubanks, Steve Case, Scott Cook, Sandy Kurtzig, John Warnock and Charles Geschke, Michael Dell, Charles Wang, Andy Grove, Trip Hawkins, Ed McCracken, Ken Olsen, and Bill Hewlett. In order to write In the Company of...
IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade by HarperBusiness $27.50
When Lou Gerstner, a high-tech neophyte, took the helm at IBM in 1993, the company was in a death spiral. One of the nation's premiere industrial giants seemed destined to wither away and die in bankruptcy. In 1999, after a miraculous recovery, IBM is vital and thriving once again. The stock has reached its all-time high, the balance sheet is cashrich, and its market capitalization has increased...