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Mon, Dec 8 2008 21:10

Let's have a security czar?

First, a follow-up to my previous message: it turns out that the investment is to be twice as that initially indicated, resulting in half of the jobs, and the jobs will be all kinds thereof, not green only. Good luck. Now, there's something that is...
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Tue, Nov 4 2008 0:01

Election day mathematics

Reading the US presidential candidates final pleas, one sentence in Sen. Obama's The Change We Need piece drew may attention: I'll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new, green jobs that pay...
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Mon, Dec 10 2007 2:09

Motorola's Ed Zander reinvents SIM

With all the buzz around major US wireless operators opening their networks to devices bought by the users, one may wonder if those businesspeople understand what they're talking about. There's no need to open anything at all in GSM and 3G (UMTS...
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Mon, Jul 30 2007 3:54

Virtually hopeless

I don't know if that's CIOs, or the press, or both. Recently Byte & Switch, CMP Technology's zine on storage networking, published a chef d'oeuvre on troubles with virtualisation . Some amazing thoughts by the captains of the industry...
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Tue, Apr 3 2007 22:22

Decision making too hard

Amazing news from the US : The Federal Communications Commission has officially grounded the idea of allowing airline passengers to use cellular telephones while in flight. Existing rules require cellular phones to be turned off once an aircraft leaves...
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Fri, Mar 9 2007 11:53

A new cult of personality

Inspired by Qantas inflight entertainment. Devil Wears Prada is about a despotic CEO who turns out to be kinda cool - after transforming somebody to someone else, more to her standards. The Queen is not about a CEO. Well, not only. It's about a chairwoman...
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Wed, Feb 21 2007 1:30

Kashrut, Sarbanes and Oxley

This is about interpretations, and how they transform law into something unrecognisable. The first example is karshrut, the orthodox jewish diet. Its origins can be traced mostly to the eleventh chapter of the third book of Bible (or Torah, if you like...
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Sun, Feb 18 2007 1:32

What scares Cisco Security CTO?

Vista is out, to everybody's love or hate. And some people are scared. Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems' security technology group, is one of them : Parts of Vista scare me. Anything with that level of systems complexity will...
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Thu, Feb 15 2007 22:10

Do you still need PSTN?

Why old technologies are bad for security? Because they aren't flexible enough. Almost everyone is using Internet banking and takes SSL encryption of the session for granted. But most banks also offer telephone banking, where you manage your account using...
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