MSM Monday Round-up
Posted by: The Weave
The government had its hand all over the tech world this week.
First we had that little incident with the MIT students who say they’ve figured out
The government had its hand all over the tech world this week.
First we had that little incident with the MIT students who say they’ve figured out
Every year at SearchCIO-Midmarket.com we get a bunch of CIOs to tell us how much spare change they’re picking up. We also ask them a lot of questions about their careers, aspirations and doubts. Then we compile all the answers and look for interesting trends. Then we write news stories. The...
Here’s a shocker: Broadband in the U.S. isn’t up to snuff and because of that our children will fall behind the rest of the world. So we learn from a new report by speedmatters.org, er, the
I don’t doubt that writing a press release that catches the eye is a tough job. But this is just dumb: “Dear Zach, “Will Shakespeare sure didn’t have to wrestle with the issues IT managers’ face today. After five years of development and some high-profile delays, Microsoft...
Well, this is embarrassing. Three MIT students write a paper on how to hack the greater Boston subway fare cards. Said students are given an ‘A’ for their work and are booked to present at the annual DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas...
Anybody else fed up with passwords? A San Jose State University professor tells us why we should be in The New York Times. It’s about time. Does anybody really think there’s a password strong...
The search for the missing Registered Traveler laptop is finally over. The laptop, belonging to Verified Identity Pass Inc.(VIP), was reported missing from a locked office in the San Francisco International Airport on July...
And this week we: Learned more about Latin American currency than we ever thought we would. All to take a look at Brazil’s potential for...
Microsoft is planning for the retirement of Windows by working on a new operating-system—Midori.
Maybe.
Well, more than likely considering all the Internet-buzz about it (one of many projects in ‘incubation,’ according...
Just like Toby Keith, I should have been a cowboy.
Alas, I went into journalism and never did get the hang of a lasso. If you’re in IT, a