To hear Barry Diller speak on the topic of the future of Internet content, you’d almost swear it was the voice of Old Man Potter, the cruel banker in the classic Christmas movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life”.
Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC, said Web users will have to pay for what they [...]
Tacoma was once a hub for western region telephone services, with a huge room of operators and switchboards at 757 Fawcett Avenue. These ladies [and later, gents] shared the handling of telephone traffic for the western states covered by the Bell Company we knew as Pacific Northwest Bell. The USA was split up into eight regions for the Bell [...]
December 28, 1949 - 20th Century Fox began producing programs for television networks. The number 1 song on the pop charts this week in 1958 was by Alvin & the Chipmunks. 1954, Denzel Washington, born in Mount Vernon, New York
December 29, 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins. 2003, Earl Hindman, voice with [...]
The bigger they get, the less corporations use full sentences. Companies begin to develop a language of their own based on their internal processes and acronyms, wherever they can use them. AT&T and Microsoft are two companies that use acronyms to simplify and business speak to complicate. They have their own lingo, that to an [...]
