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Works In Progress
Among the many stories we're running down, here are a few we particularly like: Down And Internet Out In NYC; When Disk Drives Give You Problems, Rip Them Out; A Competitor For RFID
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Software Monitors Returns at Retailers
How many returns are too many? Shoppers may soon find out as “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, kicks off the 2004 holiday shopping season. A software application from The Return Exchange Inc. called Verify-1 that monitors and records the frequency of returns by consumers is starting to catch on.
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IBM Alumnus To The Rescue Again
Quick: What do Siebel Systems and Computer Associates have in common? Give up? Both are led by 26-year IBM veterans named to their CEO posts in 2004. That coincidence came to pass Monday when CA named John Swainson, who most recently headed up sales for IBM's software group, to replace interim CEO Ken Cron six months after Siebel snatched up Mike Lawrie, who'd previously served as IBM's senior VP and group executive of sales and distribution.
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Politics Prevails Over Intelligence
Just when it seemed that the 9/11 Commission had fired up government reform, politics is again taking center stage. Congress, with a little help from members of the Bush administration apparently, has failed to advance a key 9/11 Commission recommendation that would establish an independent National Intelligence Authority headed by a national intelligence director. While this would appear to deal a major blow to the ideal of a unified intelligence community better equipped than the current one to share data that will protect the U.S. from further terrorist attacks, intelligence IT leaders are trying to move beyond the political situation and improve data sharing across existing networks. Here's a sneak peak at what I learned while researching an upcoming feature story that explains some key data sharing initiatives underway.
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Works In Progress
Short weeks don't have to short on news, and this one is a perfect example. We're looking into a number of stories: CA's Breaking Tradition To Break Out Of The Past; IBM Scores Another Huge Outsourcing Contract; and Boeing And Airbus Find Common Ground In RFID
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Oracle Secures Nearly 61% PeopleSoft Shareholder Backing
Oracle has won backing from slightly more than 60% of PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders in its $9.2 billion hostile takeover.
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In Pursuit Of The Beautiful Minds
Why's it so important to curry favor with the academic world? Some of the IT industry’s star pupils this week went back to school, offering gifts.
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The Future Of The Programmer
For an upcoming story on the role of automation in software development, I started with the premise that automation, like outsourcing, would reduce the stateside opportunities for programmers. Bad idea.
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Works In Progress
News happens. Here's the evidence: Details On Systems Management From Microsoft; Feds Want To Get RFID For Big Pharma; And While They’re At It, E-Health Records; Your Personal Records Should Get Frequent-Flier Miles
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Zebra Rumored To Have Lost Stripes
It's amazing the impact one major customer can have on a company's stock price. Zebra Technologies Corp. this morning in a press release refuted the rumor that this major customer had decided to discontinue use of Zebra's mobile printers.
"The rumor" put pressure on Zebra's stock price, causing it to tumble $3.13 to $52.90 at the close of trading on the Nasdaq.
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Works in Progress
The week's news continues to intrigue: PeopleSoft To Oracle: Is There Another Way To Say No? Some Interested Parties See An End To Unix's Stronghold; Spook Agencies Buying New IT; Novell’s First Linux Desktop Operating System; Networking’s Oliver Twist: He Wants More; Is That The Birth Of A New EDS?
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It's The Business Model That's To Blame, Not The File Sharing Networks
Good grief, the entertainment industry's content cartel just won't give up. Copyright owners, recording artists, publishing houses, attorneys--you name 'em, they're lining up to file amicus briefs supporting the movie and music industries' efforts to get the Supreme Court to overturn a district court and rule that Grokster, Morpheus and other file-sharing services are responsible for the illegal activities that occur on their networks. Never have so many been so wrong about something so obvious.
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Works in Progress
This week is sizing up to be a good one in terms of news: R.I.P Unix for Wintel? Spook Agencies Buying New IT, Novell’s First Linux Desktop Operating System, Networking’s Oliver Twist: He Wants More, Is That The Birth Of A New EDS?
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Daschle Outsourced
Offshore outsourcing opponents lost a key ally Tuesday when Republican John Thune unseated Senate majority leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota.
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Works in Progress
Much is happening this week, among them: Salesforce.com Makes Its Bid For Tier 1, And This Time They Mean It: Oracle's Last Offer; Singing From The Same Hymn Book, What's R&D Mean To A Consultant?
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What Is Open Source?
As the controversy over open-source software drags on, I thought it might be helpful to take a step back and explain what open source is and how it works. Open source programming is much more organized than its name and image convey. The open source community actually consists of hundreds of thousands of programmers worldwide who sign up to work on different projects. Their ideas and their own coding prowess are their passports to any project. If the project has already been established, the programmer organizing the project can either accept or reject a fellow programmer's ideas and code.
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E-Voting? From Electronic Pads to Felt-tip Pens
The security and integrity of electronic voting machines has been put into question during the past two years, and within the next day or so we’ll learn if the new touch-screen voting contraptions prove troublesome or helpful. What's been your high-tech (or low-tech) voting-technology experience? Here's a sampling from InformationWeek editors around the country today.
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Outsourced Subways
As a New York City straphanger faced with ever increasing fares I'd like to familiarize officials at the Metropolitan Transporation Authority with the concept of HR outsourcing.
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Works in Progress
It's going to be a momentous week, and in between electoral news will be stories such as these: And This Time They Mean It: Oracle's Last Offer; Singing From The Same Hymn Book, What's R&D Mean To A Consultant?
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