Computerworld articles from August 2007

Computerworld archives from August 2007

Identity card paranoia.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(national identity card is a good thing)(Editorial)
August 6, 2007... IF THERE'S one thing that really gives me the willies, it's a book-burning. The idea of a bunch of fanatics deciding on their own accord that certain books not only shouldn't be read but should never have been written is about as chilling as it...

Time for 40 over 40?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 6, 2007... I read the "40 Under 40" article [July 9] with 100% certainty that somewhere you would highlight 40 IT leaders over the age of 40, maybe in your July 16 issue. I was sorely disappointed. What message are you sending to us IT folks 40 and over...

Readers give high marks to small CW.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 6, 2007... I charged through the inaugural edition [July 9] of the new compact Computerworld this afternoon. Your team did a superb job: The downsized publication still looks good and flows well. I have been scrutinizing CW stories for 34 years, and it is...

No one Flops as badly as uncle sam.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 6, 2007... In listing "The 10 Biggest Technology Flops of the Past 40 Years" [July 9], how could you overlook the U.S. government, which gave us the FAA air traffic control upgrade of the '70s and '80s and the various and ongoing attempts by the FBI at...

Breaches pushing retailers to adopt PCI.(DATA SECURITY)
August 6, 2007... THE MASSIVE DATA breach at The TJX Companies Inc. disclosed earlier this year--and a string of smaller breaches at other companies--appears to be goading merchants to accelerate adoption of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security...

Diebold flaws pose election risks in Fla.(E-VOTING)(Diebold Election Systems)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... OPTICAL SCAN VOTING machines from Diebold Election Systems slated to be used in the presidential primary election in Florida next year are seriously flawed and could compromise the balloting, according to a recent report. A study by...

New York cabbies may go on strike over GPS plan.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... NEW YORK taxi drivers have promised to go on strike next month unless the city halts plans to require that Global Positioning System technology be installed in the city's 13,000 cabs by early next year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Members...

CA Inc.(Short Takes)(copyright lawsuit)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... CA Inc. has filed a $200 million copyright lawsuit against rival developer Rocket Software Inc., alleging that the company hired away developers and stole source code. The suit charges that Rocket stole the code to create six database...

Mozilla Corp.(Short Takes)
August 6, 2007... Mozilla Corp. patched a pair of flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited. Mozilla rated the problems "critical."

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(price of Windows Vista)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Microsoft Corp. has cut the price of Windows Vista in China by 67%--to $65.80--in a bid to boost sales there. The operating system's list price starts at $199 in the U.S.

Dell Inc.(Short Takes)(ASAP Software Inc.)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire ASAP Software Inc., a provider of tools for managing software license purchases, renewals and compliance, for $340 million. ASAP employs about 600 workers. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.

Researchers warn of AJAX security risks.(SECURITY)(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML )(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... LAS VEGAS Companies that have used Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to jazz up corporate Web sites may be dangerously vulnerable to a variety of Web-based threats, warned researchers at the Black Hat USA conference here last week....

Wal-Mart turns to HP for data warehouse update.(STORAGE)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... WAL-MART STORES INC. last week said that it plans to use Hewlett-Packard Co.'s new Neoview data warehouse technology to analyze data collected from its 4,000 retail stores. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nancy Stewart, Wal-Mart's chief...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
August 6, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

The Rhode Island Department of Health.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... The Rhode Island Department of Health awarded Electronic Data Systems Corp. a three-year, $1.7 million contract to build and manage one of the first statewide networks for e-health records.

Microsoft Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(data center)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Microsoft Corp. broke ground on a 500,000-square-foot data center in San Antonio that will use recycled water in its cooling system, reducing water and energy use.

20 years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Dennis Patrick proposed a system of price caps for local telephone companies)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... FCC Chairman Dennis Patrick proposed a system of price caps, instead of profit limits, to regulate AT & T and local telephone companies.

U.K. military plans e-health system.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... LONDON -- The U.K. Ministry of Defence plans over the next year to roll out an [pounds sterling]80 million ($163 million U.S.) IT system that will enable military health records to be accessed across the U.K., overseas and on the battlefield....

Brocade opens Indian R & D center.(Global Dispatches)(Brocade Communications Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... BANGALORE, INDIA -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has opened a research and development center here to create software for storage and data mobility applications. Over the long term, the operation may also move into hardware...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(mergers)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Koninklijke KPN NV, a telecommunications company in The Hague, has agreed to acquire IT services provider Getronics NV for [euro]766 million ($1.05 billion U.S.). Amsterdam-based Getronics' customers are mostly in the manufacturing, financial...

Sensitive data leaking onto P2P networks: government, businesses hit by inadvertent disclosures.(SECURITY)(peer-to-peer )
August 6, 2007... CORPORATE AND government documents containing confidential--and sometimes classified--data are increasingly getting exposed through the use of peer-to-peer networks on computers holding the sensitive information. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Vendors hope IT is ready for 802.11n: IEEE approval of the wireless LAN standard is not expected until next year.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.)
August 6, 2007... SEVERAL VENDORS are targeting large corporate IT operations with next-generation wireless LAN technology based on the emerging, and as-yet unofficial, 802.11n standard. Trapeze Networks Inc., Meru Networks Inc. and Aruba Networks Inc. have...

Will democracy vote the experts off the GIS Island?(On the Mark)(geographic information systems)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... WITH THE arrival of online mapping services such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth, geographic information systems (GIS) are now at the fingertips of every Tom, Dick and Mary with an Internet connection. This strikes Vint Cerf as good...

Utilities could use a little GIS democracy.(One the Mark)(geographic information system)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Geoff Zeiss, director of technology at Autodesk Inc. in San Rafael, Calif., argues that North America is experiencing an infrastructure crisis, much of which could be solved if up-to-date GIS data were available to the right people at the right...

Hal Abelson: the maverick professor talks about giving away MIT courseware, de-fossilizing computer science and wearing the 'nerd' label proudly.(THE GRILL)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Interview)
August 6, 2007... In 2001, you and five others started the Creative Commons movement, devoted to offering users and creators of intellectual property new rights options. Why is it significant? The great power of the Web is that people can share stuff and remix...

IT leaders need a mirror and a scale.(OPINION)
August 6, 2007... THE UPHEAVAL that is unsettling the IT industry suggests that a vast and deeply rooted transition is in progress. Not surprisingly, it has left a lot of IT workers disoriented. But it's essential that they get their bearings quickly if IT is to...

Making IT work: four women tell how they've survived and flourished in the IT culture.
August 6, 2007... IN HER EARLY YEARS as an IT professional, Monique McKeon found that work/life balance was a struggle. Two of her early employers--a large software firm and a Big 6 consultancy--were somewhat unclear on the concept. At the consultancy, her...

Irresistible IT skills: these are the competencies and combinations of expertise that will get you hired today.(CAREERS)
August 6, 2007... THE TECHNOLOGY skills shortage that pundits were talking about a year ago is here. "Everything I see in Silicon Valley is completely contrary to the assumption that programmers are a dying breed and being offshored," says Kevin Scott, senior...

Representational State Transfer (REST): it describes the principles that keep things moving smoothly on the Web.(QUICKSTUDY)
August 6, 2007... IN 2000, Roy Fielding, one of the primary authors of the HTTP specification, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. In it, he coined the term "Representational State...

Bright spots in the blogosphere: some geeky blogs you'll want to check out.(INTERNET)(Website list)
August 6, 2007... THE BUZZ around the water cooler ain't what it used to be. If you want to understand what your geekier cohorts are talking about, it may be time to start sharing some of their reading material. And we don't mean what's on their nightstands. The...

Ask for blind faith and get blindsided: a communication breakdown leads to a breakdown of team spirit as well. How do you go about getting it back?(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
August 6, 2007... I WAS SHOCKED to discover recently that my staff had lost confidence in my technical abilities. I've always prided myself on being able to put technical know-how to work even as I manage my staff. Here's what happened. We are in the midst...

The delegation boomerang.(OPINION)
August 6, 2007... HAVE YOU ever noticed that delegation doesn't always work? Have you ever given one of your subordinates a task and a few days later found it back on your to-do list? I call this the delegation boomerang effect. When this happens, most...

Maybe money does buy happiness.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Buried in Dice's 2006 IT salary report are the following figures correlating job satisfaction with salary. There's no way to know, though, which came first, the big bucks or the happiness. NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS WHO SAID THEY ARE... ...

Quote to note.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... In today's world, if you don't like the unknown, you're a fish that doesn't like water. JOE CALLOWAY, IN HIS BOOK WORK LIKE YOU'RE SHOWING OFF (WILEY, 2007) PAGE COMPILED BY JAMIE ECKLE.

Billy Hayduk: the president and CEO of software quality assurance firm RTTS discusses IT staff poaching.(Q & A)(chief executive officer)(Interview)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... How prevalent has poaching of highly skilled employees become in the tech sector? Very. The perceived shortage has caused a carousel of experienced tech people going from one place to another. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What are companies...

Free beer and pet insurance.(Career Watch)
August 6, 2007... MANY are the ways companies try to entice and retain employees. Job benefits can take many forms, and the more competitive the job market, the more companies will try to distinguish themselves with creative benefits. Sure, everyone wants health...

Why we love users.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... This payroll guy is prone to panicking when anything goes even slightly wrong with his computer. And when he panics, he starts calling his favorite IT support pilot fish and then searches the building if he can't reach fish by phone or instant...

Why users love us.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... User pilot fish has problems with a photocopier and--following procedure--e-mails the IT administrator: "Hi, tried to call but you were on the phone. Can you please either have a look at our copier or log a service call? It has a maintenance...

Feeling the love all around.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... NetWare admin pilot fish receives a trouble ticket from the help desk and now can't decide whether to be more irritated at the foolish user or at the clueless help desk worker who didn't spot a phishing expedition. The problem: "User reports...

Cleanliness is next to ... impossible.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Departmental server suddenly begins to go down frequently. The crashes are sporadic, but they always happen on weeknights--between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. "After a few weeks of debugging, two of us started coming in at night to sit in the small room...

Not so unique.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(using social security numbers )
August 6, 2007... DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS: Recently in this column, I suggested that it's a bad idea to use Social Security numbers as unique personal identification numbers "just because they're available and, well, they're unique IDs." [ILLUSTRATION...

Criminal negligence.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Technical report)
August 13, 2007... THERE'S A MOVE AFOOT to help criminals obscure their illegal online activities. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering making it possible for anyone to avoid putting Web site ownership and contact...

Responses to: your boss is spying on you right now. What can you do about it?(ONLINE CHATTER)
August 13, 2007... July 23, 2007 If you have to countermeasure, maybe you are doing something against company policy, and maybe you should consider an employer with less stringent guidelines. Every time I log onto the network, I get an institutional...

Responses to: Black hat-bound researcher denied entry into U.S.(ONLINE CHATTER)
August 13, 2007... July 30, 2007 Does anybody want the government to be doing stuff like this? It is supposed to work for us--not against us. The folks who lost thousands of dollars on this should be reimbursed and a formal apology should be publicly made to...

LinuxWorld draws both open-source devotees and curious tire-kickers.(OPEN SOURCE)(Conference news)
August 13, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO -- Last week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo drew a broad cross section of users, from cautious onlookers trying to gauge how Linux and other open-source software could fit into their organizations to converts hoping to expand...

Vista left off core IT roster for Olympics.(WINDOWS)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... BEIJING -- Windows Vista is being relegated to water boy status at next summer's Olympic Games here, and wireless networking won't even get to play a supporting role. The Beijing Organizing Committee has opted to run Windows XP on all PCs...

Microsoft updates Vista in bid to boost speed, reliability.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)
August 13, 2007... Microsoft Corp. last week released a pair of Windows Vista updates that had leaked onto the Internet at the end of July, but the company didn't say when it will begin pushing them to users via Windows Update. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Cisco Systems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Cisco Systems Inc. blamed a three-hour Web site outage on errors made during preventive maintenance work at a data center. The errors caused an electrical overload on systems that also affected redundancy measures, Cisco said.

The Web site woes temporarily prevented Cisco users from downloading 21 security fixes that the networking vendor posted just hours before the outage.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... The Web site woes temporarily prevented Cisco users from downloading 21 security fixes that the networking vendor posted just hours before the outage. Cisco said the patches plug holes in its IOS and Unified Communications Manager software.

MySQL AB.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Open-source vendor MySQL AB plans to stop hosting the code for its Enterprise Server database in binary form on its public FTP servers. Enterprise Server's source code will still be freely available but not as a single executable file, MySQL...

Sun Microsystems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Sun Microsystems Inc. said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs by the middle of next year.

Mozilla: party quip doesn't translate to official policy.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... IT TURNS OUT that Mozilla Corp. officials aren't setting new security policies at late-night pajama parties after all. The open-source browser vendor last week retracted a pledge that an independent security researcher attributed to Mike...

California puts limits on use of e-voting systems.(GOVERNMENT)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... CALIFORNIA Secretary of State Debra Bowen has mandated tough new security standards for the state's e-voting systems and curtailed their planned use after an independent review of the technology. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Citizens do not...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
August 13, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Ingres Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Roger Burkhardt promoted)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Ingres Corp. promoted Roger Burkhardt to CEO. He had been the open-source database vendor's president and chief operating officer since July 2006.

Gregory Reyes.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... A jury in San Francisco found Gregory Reyes, former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., guilty of securities fraud and nine other charges in connection with the backdating of stock-option grants at the firm. It was the first criminal...

One year ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brocade Communications Systems Inc. aquires McData Corp.)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... ONE YEAR AGO: Brocade agreed to buy storage switch rival McData Corp. for $713 million in stock.

Wipro to acquire U.S. outsourcer.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... BANGALORE, INDIA -- Wipro Ltd. announced that it has agreed to acquire Leonia, N.J.-based Infocrossing Inc. for about $600 million in cash. Infocrossing, which operates five data centers in the U.S. and has about 900 employees, offers...

U.K. bank moving IT jobs offshore.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... LONDON -- Lloyds TSB Group PLC said it plans to offshore about 210 IT jobs from its U.K. banking operations to a trio of outsourcing vendors in India. One hundred full-time jobs and 110 positions held by contractors will be moved offshore...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(International Finance Corp.)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... International Finance Corp., a unit of the World Bank, has agreed to invest $32.5 million in an undersea fiber-optic cable project that's designed to provide Internet and international communications services to 21 countries in Africa. ...

IT execs seek new ways to justify Web 2.0: usual ROI metrics won't work with new tools, users say.(NETWORKING & INTERNET)
August 13, 2007... WILLIAM HAYES is working on a pilot project that he hopes will eventually bring wikis, blogs and RSS technologies to employees throughout Cambridge, Mass.-based pharmaceutical company Biogen Idec Inc. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But Hayes,...

Feds push IT to expend less energy; EPA: status quo means power use in data centers will double by 2011.(DATA CENTERS)
August 13, 2007... IT MANAGER Vince Delperdang's environmental science degree is well suited to the era of global warming--especially in light of a prediction by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that power consumption in data centers will double over the...

Tackle data center energy costs with new software.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... IF YOUR latest task is to cut energy consumption in the data center, you're probably analyzing your hardware setup. But Sam Charrington suggests that your best bet might be new software. The vice president of product management and marketing at...

OpenProj takes on Microsoft Project.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Marc O'Brien, CEO of Projity Inc. in San Mateo, Calif., figures his OpenProj software could take market share away from Microsoft Project. One reason he's optimistic is that Microsoft Corp. doesn't bundle its popular project management product...

A2P msgs tk 4 us biz.(On the Mark)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Although it's common elsewhere for businesses to send application-to-person (A2P) text messages to cell phones, U.S. carriers have been slow to offer the service, says Steven Livingston, chief marketing officer at mBlox Inc. in Sunnyvale,...

Rick Rashid: Microsoft's top research exec talks about working on the next big thing, exterminating bugs and living with the Alto Trek legacy.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
August 13, 2007... What major change is coming in IT in the next few years? Something that will have a profound impact, and it's already happening, is the cost of storage. We've really made a transition from having to worry a lot about getting rid of things, to...

The agility factor.(OPINION)
August 13, 2007... THE MOST POWERFUL player in the 21st-century global IT supply chain is the business end user. All the other players in the chain--in-house IT organizations, IT vendors, resellers and consultants--need to position themselves to best respond to...

Translate this: automated translation tools have been around for a long time, and new techniques are boosting their performance. But use them with caution.(Cover story)
August 13, 2007... SOMETIMES THINGS GET LOST IN TRANSLATION. For example, type the question, "Automated language translation--is it an idea whose time has come?" into Google's English-French translator, then enter the result of that into its French-German...

Chip, heal thyself: it's becoming ever more difficult to make foolproof chips, but a new layer of software could fix them on the fly.(FUTURE WATCH)
August 13, 2007... IN 1994, Intel Corp. shipped its new Pentium processor with a tiny flaw in a region of the chip devoted to floating-point division. The company shrugged off the problem as "extremely minor," but users screamed bloody murder, and Intel...

History & the hub: these best places to work offset a high cost of living with flextime and rich benefits.(BEST PLACES SHOWCASE: NEW ENGLAND)
August 13, 2007... THERE'S a lot to like about the Boston area and New England in general. "The Hub," as greater Boston is affectionately known, oozes history, has a dynamic arts community and boasts perhaps the highest concentration of college students per...

From Russia, with concern: a trip to Moscow to audit an offshore partner leaves our manager wary. And then there's air-gapping.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
August 13, 2007... A DECISION TO send coding work offshore requires a weighing of benefits against risks. And who gets to deal with most of the risks? The security manager, of course. That's why I just returned from my yearly trip to Moscow, where employees...

The IT horizon is looking green.(OPINION)
August 13, 2007... THE AMOUNT of power consumed by data centers doubled from 2000 to 2005, according to Jonathan Koomey, consulting professor at Stanford University. By the end of 2005, data centers were consuming approximately 1.2% of all U.S. electricity. The...

Jerry Smith: the CTO at product engineering outsourcer Symphony Services talks about the keys to collaborating with offshore colleagues.(Q & A)(Interview)
August 13, 2007... What's the key to global collaboration? Companies that view offshore teams as partners--seamless extensions of their onshore teams--rather than task-based, lower-cost resources tend to get better results and have more rewarding team...

Career site beyond.com online survey.(Career Watch)
August 13, 2007... 93% Percentage of business professionals who said they expect to change their career paths in 2007. 10% Percentage of those who said they will try IT as a career. SOURCE: CAREER SITE BEYOND.COM ONLINE SURVEY OF 4,300 PEOPLE

Bringing the work back home.(Career Watch)
August 13, 2007... On the front page of its July 3 issue, The Wall Street Journal highlighted what is perhaps a growing trend. In a story called "Second Thoughts," reporters Pui-Wing Tam and Jackie Range spoke to some small tech companies in Silicon Valley that...

The movers behind: moving up.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... What motivates leaders to take a promotion? For U.S. business leaders, the top two motivators are the ability to make things happen and making money doing it, according to a survey by Development Dimensions International Inc. For leaders...

Let's take this one step at a time.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
August 13, 2007... Intermittent noise from this PC's power supply gets a little louder every day, says the pilot fish in the cubicle next door. "Our resident hardware guru tries to fix it by hitting the CPU--he actually winds up and smacks it a good one," fish...

Nobody home.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
August 13, 2007... A user calls the help desk to complain that her calendaring software isn't working properly. "I'm setting up a meeting for next Wednesday," she says. "I did a 'busy' search, and it shows my boss as being available, but I know he's on vacation...

Sorry, can't do it.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
August 13, 2007... This county office installs a spam filter for incoming e-mail, and some users are confused and upset. "Seems they didn't understand that 99% of everything caught was indeed junk," says e-mail admin pilot fish. But fish works hard to explain to...

Open boss.(TRUE TALES OF IT LIFE)
August 13, 2007... Boss confronts netadmin pilot fish during a staff meeting. "He said he doesn't like the way a well-known network OS handles assigning rights," fish reports. "I informed him that that's how the OS is designed. Boss said, 'So change it.' I asked...

Virtual trouble.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(holding virtual business meetings)
August 13, 2007... USING SECOND LIFE FOR BUSINESS? Yeah, it's a screwy idea. OK, there are companies that have set up imaginary shops in Second Life and other "virtual worlds," including Toyota, Reebok and Adidas. And yes, IBM and Intel have made a big deal about...

Dear Charles.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(open letter to Charles Wang)(Editorial)
August 20, 2007... AN OPEN letter to Charles Wang, founder of Computer Associates (now CA): [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I realize I'm probably one of the last people on the planet you want to hear from, but I felt it was important that I write this letter...

Run elections the way a business would.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 20, 2007... I heard Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning ask on NPR if the amount of time spent in defending the voting system and trying to prove to the public that it's accurate and secure is worth the effort when we should be spending our time...

Disingenuous answer.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 20, 2007... It seems to me that Don Tennant's "Official Response" [Editor's Note, July 30] to those who questioned the validity of the Computerworld.com article "Your Boss Is Spying on You Right Now. What Can You Do About It?" was something of a...