Cashed out and tuned in to contemporary art
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Peter Norton, founder of Peter Norton Computing Inc and creator of an undelete program that formed the core of Norton Utilities, sold his company to Symantec Corp for $70 million in 1990. Since then, Norton has lived a leisurely life with his family and has devoted himself to the contemporary art world. Norton believes that a lot of the technology advances are driven by esthetics, such as a programmer's quest for algorithms that are elegant and clean. Norton, whose childhood ambition is to be a philanthropist, has chosen not to get caught up in the American dream of 'making it,' and has thus given up on entrepreneurship. He believes that the newly wealthy in high technology industries is immature, self-involved and uninterested in social causes.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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A visionary tries to tie the world together
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Traveling Software Inc's chmn Mark Eppley began is career in software when he devised a software package that gauges battery life for portable computers. Battery Watch has become a standard in many portable computers. Eppley feels the gap between computers and communications systems is filling as computers, particularly portable computers, become communications links for users. He sees pen-based computing as the technology of choice because of its connection to the natural way of doing business, in writing. Connecting pen-based portable computers with electronic mail and facsimile via a software called Universal Communications Object, is Eppley's goal.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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The letter of the law
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Overdrive Systems Inc's Home Lawyer is a document processing software package that generates simple legal documents for IBM-compatible microcomputers. It sells for $99. Users need only to fill in the blanks for documents that include wills, bills of sale for motor vehicles and other property, promissory notes, powers of attorney, residential leases, bad-check notices, dunning letters, independent contractor agreements and defective product complaints. Overdrive enlisted the help of Joel Z. Hyatt, founder of Hyatt Legal Services Inc, in developing the software.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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