Tales from the Encrypt
Safeguarding computer information from unprivileged eyes isn't a new concept. Encryption devices were invented by the Ancient Greeks and Thomas Jefferson. Read story
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Agenda 12/05
Who says nothing happens right before the holidays? Read story
Tallying Up
A look at the medieval precursor to the credit card. Read story
Quality Control
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Castles in the Air
Today's firewall software is comparable to the security systems of ancient castles--it assesses the characteristics of an individual, and then grants or deni... Read story
Chester Carlson: The Man Who Started It All
The copier business today is a multibillion-dollar industry, replete with huge corporations, slick promotions, and all the other trappings of big business... Read story
Ports of Call
Serial and parallel ports, the holes that transmit data from inside a PC to the outside world, were invented in the nineteenth century. Morse's patented tele... Read story
Just the Fax
Believe it or not, today's fax machine isn't a new technology. The first faxes traveled electronically over telegraph wires more than a century ago. Read story
Taking Stock
Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-da... Read story
Entrepreneur of the Year: Ping Fu
She came to this country by way of a Chinese prison, but that's the past, and the future holds a tantalizing promise of smarter, cheaper manufacturing and be... Read story
And the Credit Goes to?
It's not the inventor toiling in his lab who becomes famous. It's the one who makes the biggest splash. Read story
Total Quality Management (TQM)
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Origins of the 500: Globe-Trotters
Where do America's fastest growing private companies get all those great ideas? Here's how powerful forces propelled three Inc. 500 CEOs to venture overseas. Read story
Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom
Some of America's biggest corporations are discovering that their future may depend on thinking small. Read story
In the Eye of the Beholder
An up-close look at the 1990s fad, 3-D images, and how one entrepreneur stumbled into it and hit pay dirt. Read story
Computer Applications
According to The History of Computing Project, the prototype of the first microcomputer was introduced by the aptly named Micro Computer Inc., Los Angele... Read story
Life In The Silicon Rain Forest
Oregon has always been a great place to fish or raise a family. Lately it has become one of the hottest places around to start a company. Read story
Here Comes The Neighborhood
A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities. Read story
The Coolest Little Start-Up in America
For TerraCycle's Tom Szaky, nothing could be cooler--or sweeter--than selling garbage packaged in garbage. Read story
Patent Pending
Story of an inventor's 30-year battle to gain control of patent rights to the laser technology he helped develop. Read story
The Secret Life of a Serial CEO
Bob Cramer has piloted six companies to big paydays. Now he has found a start-up that offers something else--excitement, poetry, a legacy. If only he can get... Read story
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