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Geek now chic in pop culture

If the world of entertainment is any indication, the geeks shall inherit the Earth.

Fans keep Wozniak 'Dancing With the Stars'

What he lacks in technique, Steve Wozniak makes up for in geeks.

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: Midterm Grades from French Open

After seven days of play, here are our midterm grades from the 2008 French Open

Fortune: A SPAC that went splat

Normally investors make decisions based on close evaluation of the fundamentals underlying a company. In a SPAC, or special-purpose acquisition corporation, popular Wall Street vehicles whose organizers raise money to spend on yet-to-be-determined targets, investors buy solely into the pedigree of the founders.

Business 2.0: Is Microsoft wasting $500 million?

Microsoft's $500 million marketing campaign, which targets IBM, is already drawing skeptical reviews. Tech author Nicholas Carr says that Microsoft's "people-ready" campaign reminds him of Apple's "1984" ads, when Apple launched the Macintosh as a liberating, humanistic response to IBM's overbearingly corporate PC. Carr points out that neither Apple nor IBM won that fight -- the winner, two decades ago, was Microsoft. In this new Microsoft-IBM fight might leave the field open to another surprise victor. Google, anyone?

Fortune: Apple alumni want your money

Everybody wants a piece of the Apple magic. Investors have clamored for the stock, which has doubled in less than a year. Entrepreneurs have hopped aboard the iPod gravy train by building add-ons whose sales mushroom as the popular music player prospers. Now even Apple alumni who have nothing whatsoever to do with the company's current success want in on the action.

The Steve Jobs way

Steve Jobs helped create a Silicon Valley icon and, along the way, garnered a reputation as a charismatic yet mercurial visionary.

Apple's core: The Mac turns 20

Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.

FSB: Start-Me-Up HOW THE GARAGE BECAME A LEGENDARY PLACE TO REV UP IDEAS

For as long as the California garage has housed convertibles, it has also fotered a different type of vehicle: innovation. Although Hugh Hefner started at his card table and Tom Golisano in his old...

Fortune: GARAGE THIS HUMBLE INSTITUTION IS LABORATORY, SKUNKWORKS, STUDIO, AND STAGE, AND AMERICA'S SECRET WEAPON

IMAGINE YOURSELF living 100 years ago on Detroit's Bagley Avenue. It's 2 a.m. on June 4, 1896, and the sound of steel striking stone has drawn you out of bed and into the night. The noise and puffs...

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