Computerworld articles from June 2008

Computerworld archives from June 2008

Contingencies.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
June 2, 2008... SUPPOSE YOU were developing software that would run about 50 to 60 operational tasks simultaneously, including the management of multiple mechanical and digital devices. That'd be reasonably complex. Now consider that any time a task stumbled,...

Sphere of influence.(Letter to the editor)
June 2, 2008... In his editorial "Fluidity of Influence" [May 19], Don Tennant wonders why RedPrairie ranks higher than BMC, Symantec and Hitachi on Aberdeen Group's list of the 100 most influential technology vendors. I can offer a few reasons. ...

The view from the salesman's side.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... The May 5 report "What Buyers Want" was interesting, but it fell woefully short of the realities. Doubtlessly in sales, as anywhere else, there are a lot of people who don't have very high standards. However, anyone who approaches his job...

Operating systems: Microsoft to remain mum about Windows 7 - mostly.(News Digest)
June 2, 2008... FIRST, MICROSOFT Corp. said last week that it would have little to say about the next version of Windows for the time being. Then, hours later, the vendor said that the next release, currently called Windows 7, will include touch-screen...

Intel delay could aid AMD rally.(HARDWARE)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... A PROBLEM with an intergrated graphics chip set last week forced Intel Corp. to postpone the launch of its new Centrino 2 mobile platform just as rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is set to unveil a competing chip this week. The product...

SEC ruling lets Whole Foods CEO blog again.(WEB 2.0)(John Mackey)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... WHOLE FOODS Market Inc. Chairman and CEO John Mackey, who came under fire last summer for using anonymous online posts to bash competitors, is back in the blogging saddle. Mackey had been mum online since last July, when his eight-year...

Apple inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Apple Inc. last week issued patches for 40 vulnerabilities in more than 25 components and applications bundled with Mac OS X, including iCalendar and the Apple implementations of Flash Player and Apache. Sixteen of the flaws were deemed...

Dell inc.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... The Albany, N.Y., County Supreme Court found Dell Inc. guilty of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and conducting abusive debt collection practices. The court said that the PC maker did not provide promised technical...

IBM.(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... IBM has introduced three rack servers based on quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for users who need systems with a lot of memory. The low-end model offers 48GB of memory and the high-end model has 128GB.

VMware inc.(B-hive Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... VMware Inc. has agreed to acquire B-hive Net-works Inc., a maker of application performance management software, for an undisclosed sum.

NASA worker suspended for political e-mails, posts.(GOVERNMENT)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... A NASA EMPLOYEE recently learned the hard way that federal workers can get into legal hot water if they blog or send e-mails about political issues while on the job. And others on the government's payroll may soon learn similar lessons. ...

U.S. Military broadens use of medical records system.(HARDWARE)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... THE U.S. MILITARY has expanded beyond the Army with its rollout of a system that lets doctors and medics access and update the electronic medical records of soldiers in battle zones. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Medical Communications...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
June 2, 2008... Caption:... PRESS 3 IF YOU PLAN ON BLOGGING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM, IN WHICH CASE WE'LL SEND SOMEONE RIGHT OVER... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Amazon.com inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... After outsourcing its e-commerce operations to Amazon.com Inc. for the past seven years, bookseller Borders Lnc. Launched its own online sales Web site.

Federal judge.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... A federal judge ordered private investigators who were involved in the 2006 media-leak probe scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. to stop obtaining and selling personal telephone records.

One year ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... ONE YEAR AGO: The U.K. government released Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. It was the first update of the IT service management guidelines in seven years.

Brazilian outsourcer to expand in U.S.(Global Dispatches)(Politec SA)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... BRASILA -- Politec SA last week announced plans to expand its outsourcing operations in the U.S. by adding more than 700 employees in its Atlanta, Miami and New York offices. The outsourcing firm, which is based here, currently employs...

EC to fund African tech projects.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... LUSAKA, Zambia -- The European Commission has agreed to provide some [euro]78 million ($121 million U.S.) to help fund IT infrastructure development in countries that are part of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. ...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Wolfgang Ziebart has resigned as president and CEO of Infineon Technologies AG over differences of opinion on "future strategic orientation," the Neubiberg, Germany-based chip maker confirmed last week. Executive Vice President Peter Bauer...

Web 2.0 tools help customers get better service; Technology is forcing firms to learn to respond to customers quickly.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
June 2, 2008... COMCAST CORP. scored a public relations coup in April when an executive responded within 20 minutes to complaints about a cable outage posted by a prominent blogger on a microblogging site. The blogger, Michael Arrington, reported that a...

Inside job highlights IT and oversight failures at bank; A report on the trading scandal at Societe Generale says IT controls weren't strong enough and managers should have been more vigilant.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
June 2, 2008... ASARELATIVELY low-level financial trader at Societe Generale, Jerome Kerviel didn't have much business engaging in directional trading in securities for the Paris-based bank. But that didn't stop him from surreptitiously making the risky...

Hardware for analytics.(On the Mark)
June 2, 2008... YOU DON'T generally think of Sybase Inc. as a hardware vendor. And it's not. But come July, the Dublin, Calif., company will add the Sybase Analytic Appliance on IBM Power Systems to its product line. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Irfan Khan,...

Clarence White: the Salvation Army's CIO talks about building massive applications, using Bl to prioritize human services and tracking bell-ringer demographics.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
June 2, 2008... Clarence White is responsible for the Salvation Army's IT operations for 13 western states, which are linked in a cohesive network that provides social services to millions of needy people. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are IT needs different...

Why enterprise strategy matters: strategies are all around us in IT. We have go-to-market strategies, growth strategies, vendor management strategies, consolidation and migration strategies, infrastructure strategies, HR strategies and innovation strategies.(OPINION)(Column)
June 2, 2008... What we don't have all too often is a differentiated, make-the-heart-pump-faster enterprise strategy. "Not our job," a lot of you are probably saying. "We're here to enable strategy, not formulate it." But if a company lacks a coherent,...

i Phone: one year later: Apple's splash into the cell phone market proved consumers will pay for hip devices. Now the race is on to one-up the iPhone.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
June 2, 2008... What a difference a year makes. This month, the hip iPhone celebrates its first anniversary, following its riotous launch last June 29. Its birth followed six months of prerelease hype that was ignited by Apple Inc. CEO and industry luminary...

A trickle into the enterprise: consumers may be snatching up iPhones, but many IT executives are holding off, weighing murky issues like support, TCO and even durability.
June 2, 2008... IT MIGHT not be long before you see District of Columbia police officers reaching into their pockets and pulling out iPhones--in the line of duty. The city is field-testing Apple Inc.'s phone and is considering distribut-ing the devices to as...

What hath the iPhone wrought? There's no denying Apple's iPhone had a heck of a debut. We asked some pundits to share their thoughts on the device's first whirlwind year.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
June 2, 2008... "The public still doesn't understand what's so great about the iPhone. It's lauded as a superior phone (it isn't) that does everything (it doesn't). In fact, the iPhone's greatness comes from its advanced user interface, which has features...

Giving iPhone its moment in history: there are moments in history that place one-to-many communications media in pivotal roles. These events ("Where were you when you heard ... ?") become elemental markers in history not just because of the enormity of what happened, but also because of how they were conveyed to the world.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)
June 2, 2008... You can't write the history of radio, for example, without mentioning Herb Morrison's eyewitness report of the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, N.J., back in May 1937. It was a gripping national broadcast of the fiery crash of a German...

Major Dilemma.(Career watch)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... An academic study has addressed the question of why students aren't majoring in computer science, though the findings are far from definitive. Published in the spring 2008 edition of the Journal of Information Systems Management, the study was...

What are you lookin' at?(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... People who pierce visible body parts-lips, tongues, eyebrows-are likely to face bias in the workplace. In surveys of 150 people, three Texas State University professors found that most respondents said they would prefer not to work with those...

The leader of Spencer Stuart's information officer practice talks about trends in senior-level IT executive recruitment.(Q&A)(Brief article)
June 2, 2008... Are you seeing an increase in turnover among senior IT executives? What factors are driving this? We have. We've seen a rash of retirements in different companies, and it's literally a generational change. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over...

SharkTank: True tales of it life as told to Sharky.
June 2, 2008... Oops! Retired pilot fish gets a call from his old employer. "New IT management suddenly decided that the Unix staff wasn't doing its job and out of the blue suspended the entire staff without pay for 20 days," reports fish. "About four...

RFID redux.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Radio-frequency Identification)
June 2, 2008... LET'S TALK about RFID. But first, let's imagine the Internet as it might be. Suppose every ISP required its users to buy only its own brand of modern. And use only its own brand of modern. And use only its own proprietary Web browser. And...

Best and brightest: last week's end to the presidential primary season would have been a lot more welcome if it wasn't the precursor to an even more determined orchestration of divisiveness in this country.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
June 9, 2008... From now till November, the spewing of political venom will only intensify--not so much because the candidates themselves are so inclined, but because so many columnists, bloggers and talk show hosts have such a receptive audience for their...

IT research: is it time to analyze the analysts?(RESPONSES TO:)(Brief article)(Column)
June 9, 2008... May 28,2008 There are fundamental flaws in the whole IT analyst business that never get addressed. 1. If your IT team needs to buy information on what is going on in the industry, perhaps you're in the wrong field. If you want to be...

Computerworld.com.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... FIND THESE STORIES AT COMPUTERWORLD.COM/MORE Extreme IT: Battling Dust, Heat and Bombs In Afghanistan And Iraq Think your job's tough? IT pros in the U.S. military combat extreme temperatures, "moon dust" and mortar attacks to keep...

Lost tapes prompt IT changes at BNY mellon.(DATA BREACHES)(The Bank of New York)
June 9, 2008... AFTER ITS third-party couriers twice lost unencrypted backup tapes, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. late last month launched plans to encrypt stored data and to limit the confidential client data it saves on tape drives. [ILLUSTRATION...

Data scam hits grad students.(SECURITY)(graduate)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... A DATA BREACH at United Healthcare Services Inc. early this year led to a rash of identity thefts at the University of California, Irvine. The school said that since February, 155 of its graduate students have been hit by the scam, in which...

FAA blames disk failure for database crash.(HARDWARE)(Federal Aviation Administration)
June 9, 2008... A DISK FAILURE in an aging server from Sun Microsystems Inc. caused a key Federal Aviation Administration database to crash and be unavailable for nearly 20 hours late last month, according to the FAA. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Notam,...

Federal Trade Commission and Intel corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... The Federal Trade Commission and Intel Corp. both said on Friday that the FTC has begun a formal antitrust investigation of the chip maker. Intel said it will continue to cooperate with the FTC, which had been conducting an informal inquiry...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... Meanwhile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. moved to broaden its rivalry with Intel by announcing the Turion X2 Ultra, its first processor designed specifically for laptops.

Sun Microsystems Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... Sun Microsystems Inc. confirmed that it plans to start selling solid-state disk drives made by third-party manufacturers. Sun said it will ship a 2.5-in. SSD device this year and a3.5-in.model in 2009.

AT&T Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... AT&T Inc.'s online store began displaying an "out of stock" message next to both the 8GB and 16GB models of Apple Inc.'s iPhone - another sign that Apple may soon be releasing a new model of its popular handheld device.

Oklahoma city supports Wi-Fi - for its own use.(MOBILE & WIRELESS)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... OKLAHOMA CITY'S government last week cut the ribbon on a municipal Wi-Fi network that supports 150 applications used by police, firefighters and other city workers - but no public wireless services. The city had planned to provide free or...

Blast knocks data center at hosting firm offline.(DISASTER RECOVERY)(Planet.com Internet Services Inc.)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... AN EXPLOSION and fire that occurred May 31 at a data center in Houston operated by The Planet.com Internet Services Inc. shut down the server hosting facility for about 30 hours. And as of Friday, 300 of the 9,000 systems there were still out...

Between the lines.(NEWS DIGEST)(Cartoon)
June 9, 2008... I'D LIKE TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEW ICEBERG POLICY. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Yahoo Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK.)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... Yahoo Inc. set Aug. 1 as the new date for its annual meeting, which promises to be contentious after Yahoo's fending off of a buyout bid by Microsoft Corp. Multiple proposals to replace Yahoo's board are expected.

Verizon Wireless.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK.)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... Verizon Wireless said it plans to buy Alltel Corp. for S28.1 billion, which would make it the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., bumping AT&T Inc. from first place.

30 Years Ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK.)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... 30 YEARS AGO: Intel Corp. introduced the 8086, its first 16-bit microprocessor - launching what eventually came to be known as the x86 architecture.

Intel fined in antitrust case.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... SEOUL - The Korea Fair Trade Commission last week fined Intel Corp. 26 billion won ($25.4 million U.S.) after concluding that the chip maker abused its dominant position in the microprocessor market. The trade commission said that Intel's...

India, Brazil file OOXML appeals.(Global, Dispatches)(Office Open XML)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... GENEVA - India and Brazil late last month appealed the adoption of Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format as an ISO standard. Their appeals join one FiLed days earlier by South Africa. All were submitted to the ISO standards...

Briefly noted.(Global, Dispatches)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... The European Commission is testing cross-border electronic identity systems in an effort to create pan-European recognition of the 30 million national ID cards now used in 13 member countries. The three-year, [euro]10 million ($15.4 million...

Saving lives, saving energy: IT projects with real benefits; More than 200 organizations were recognized last week for using technology to make a difference.(WASHINGTON)(Emergency Management and Research Institute)(Byrraju Foundation)
June 9, 2008... IN ADDITION to enriching IT services firms, the growth of offshore outsourcing in India is fueling efforts to use technology to improve--and even save--lives in that country. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For instance, three Indian states...

Is Microsoft boxing itself into an IT corner? The software vendor insists that its container-based data center approach will work. But some outsiders aren't so sure.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
June 9, 2008... IN APRIL, Microsoft Corp. announced an ambitious plan to fill the first floor of a new data center it's building near Chicago with up to 220 40-foot shipping containers. Each will hold as many as 2,000 servers already mounted on racks, wired to...

Green may not be Microsoft data center's best color.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
June 9, 2008... LIKE MANY OTHER COMPANIES, Microsoft is trying to portray its new data centers as exemplars of green computing. For instance, the software vendor says it's taking pains to make its Northlake facility as energy-efficient as possible, through...

Capture your scribbles.(On the Mark)(Adapx Inc.)
June 9, 2008... IF YOU HAVE workers in the field who need to mark up printed documents, you know that getting handwritten data into an application is time-consuming. Sometimes money is wasted and decisions are delayed while you're waiting for those files to be...

Gordon bell; The computer pioneer talks about his favorite computer of all time, the state of telepresence and his good friend.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
June 9, 2008... Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicomputer pioneer Digital Equipment Corp. for 23 years and later a founder of the Computer History...

Your next data center: Companies are outgrowing their data centers faster than they ever predicted. It's time to rethink and rebuild.(DATA CENTERS)(Christus Health )
June 9, 2008... ABOUT 15 miles from its medical center in downtown San Antonio, Christus Health is building a $23 million data center to house a flood of digital information ranging from patient insurance records to CT scans. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

The master plan: how to manage five key aspects of your next data center.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... TODAY'S data centers pack more processing power into smaller physical spaces than ever before. But too much of a good thing creates new challenges for next-generation data center design. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Consolidation has...

How to move it.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... AN IT guy walks into a bar... No, it's not a joke, but Ken Jamaca, president of Silverback Migration Solutions Inc., can look back on this true story and laugh. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] His team was moving a data center to a new...

How to pay for it.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... THE FIRST STEP in building a data center is learning to deal with sticker shock. New data center space costs at least $1,500 per square foot to start, according to IDC. That means IT managers will first be asked this ROI question: Are you...

Where to put it.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... IF DATA CENTER LOCATION was paramount to Rodney McPearson, a data center project manager at Cimarex Energy Co., he wouldn't have two of his five data centers in the hurricane-prone locales of New Orleans and Houston and a third in the tornado...

How to staff it.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... THANKS to technology, it doesn't take a whole lot of people to run a data center. With new remote-management and automation capabilities, you need fewer data center staffers. For instance, Microsoft Corp. will staff its 500,000-square-foot...

Mark Hall; Beyond the physical.(DATA CENTERS)
June 9, 2008... YOUR NEXT data center will be more mental than physical, more of an abstract location in your mind than a place you can show visitors on a company tour. Oh, sure, you run IT, so for the foreseeable future, it's likely there will be a server...

No beef with this internship.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... Proficient in C or C++? Have an interest in 3-D graphics development? Want to get your foot in the door of the video game industry? Well, put down that burger if you want an internship at Bigfoot Inc. In start-up posted a listing for summer...

Money talks.(Survey)(Brief article)
June 9, 2008... 29% vs.23% Percentage of U.S. employees who ranked work-life balance as the No.1 factor in weighing job offers, compared with the percentage who said compensation is the primary consideration. SOURCE: HUDSON SURVEY OF 1634 WORKERS WHO HAVE...

Teaching IT the 'M' word; That's 'M' as in 'Marketing'.(CAREER DEVELOPMENT)
June 9, 2008... We live in a world where perception matters, and this is particularly true for IT, which often needs to increase its credibility, build partnerships and improve its image. For many IT professionals, promoting the work they do requires a...

Sharktank: true tales of it life as told to Sharky.
June 9, 2008... Just Like You Asked It's the late 1990s, and this server room runs smoothly with dozens of Unix servers. Then word comes down from management: We need a Windows server. Why? asks lead sysadmin pilot fish. No answer - and fish won't budge...

Frank Hayes; Theory and reality.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
June 9, 2008... NINE BILLION DOLLARS. That's the theoretical cost of settling a privacy lawsuit against Trans-Union, the Chicago-based credit reporting bureau. TransUnion won't actually spend $9 billion, of course; it will offer free credit monitoring (retail...

Thinking 101.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
June 16, 2008... IRECEIVED AN E-MAIL from a reader last week in response to my "Best and Brightest" column that made a deep impression on me. In the column, I expressed my conviction that the community of IT leaders is one of the most influential resources we...

A trickle into the enterprise June 2, 2008.(RESPONSE TO:)(Letter to the editor)
June 16, 2008... This quote appears in the article: "I have nothing against iPhone. It's great," says Manjit Singh, CIO at Chiquita Brands International Inc. "But we're a BlackBerry shop, and I don't think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great...

Full appeals court hearing sought in border laptop search case June 3,2008.(RESPONSE TO:)(Letter to the editor)
June 16, 2008... I don't have an issue with customs agents "checking" the content at the time a person is crossing the border. I do have a problem with copying the entire contents or confiscating media if they do not see anything at the time of the border...

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
June 16, 2008... MONDAY: Computerworld's Infrastructure Management World conference opens in Washington. TUESDAY: The HP Technology Forum & Expo begins in Las Vegas. Also, Mozilla plans to release its Firefox 3.0 browser. WEDNESDAY: Red Hat's annual...

IT execs cite ways to lure users to Web 2.0.(WEB 2.0)
June 16, 2008... BOSTON CONVENTIONAL wisdom says that the Generation Y workforce is demanding Enterprise 2.0 tools such as wikis and social networks while stodgy, baby boomer executives are stifling those requests. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In fact,...

IBM expands its modular IT line.(DATA CENTERS)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... IBM is trying to do for data centers what McDonald's helped do for burgers and fries: create an efficient, quasi-manufacturing process for building them. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IBM last week said it is expanding a standardized design...

Obama campaign seeks web-site security help.(SECURITY)(Barack Obama)
June 16, 2008... TWO MONTHS after its Web site was hacked by a Hillary Clinton supporter, Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is looking for a network security expert to help lock down the site. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The job requirements posted...

Microsoft corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... * Just hours after ending talks with would-be buyer Microsoft Corp. late last week, Yahoo Inc. said it has agreed to run advertising from Google Inc. alongside its search results. The nonexclusive deal came as a setback to Microsoft, which had...

OpenOffice.org.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... * OpenOffice.org has issued a patch for a security vulnerability affecting several versions of its open-source office suite. The vulnerability could allow a hacker to execute commands on affected systems. The flaw affects Versions 2.0 through...

Red hat Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... * Red Hat Inc. has settled patent-infringement claims brought against it by Firestar Software Inc. and DataTern Inc. Terms were not disclosed. The plaintiffs had charged that Red Hat's Hibernate product violated their patents.

Amazon's site goes down, gets up, stumbles again.(WEB SITE MANAGEMENT)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... FOR UNEXPLAINED REASONS, Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site was inaccessible for about three hours on June 6 and then suffered from performance slowdowns last Monday. During the initial outage, the online retailer posted a notice on its forum site...

IBM smashes petaflop performance record.(SUPERCOMPUTING)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... IBM'S NEW Roadrunner supercomputer has smashed the high-tech equivalent of the four-minute mile by breaking the lofty petaflop barrier. IBM said last week that the hybrid system running AMD Opteron processors and Cell chips sustained a...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
June 16, 2008... YOUR PROPOSAL HAS TO BE OK'd By OUR DEPARTMENT ,,, ,,, HOSTED ON OUR INTRANET,,, ,,, DOWNLOADED to the APPROPRIATE PERSONNEL ,,, ,,. AND CERTIFIED BY US ,,, ,,, INSTALLED VIA iTUNES ,,, ,,, THEN YOU CAN GO to the BATHROOM....

Avaya Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Lou D'Ambrosio )(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... Lou D'Ambrosio resigned as president and CEO of Avaya Inc. for medical reasons. He was replaced on an interim basis by Charles Giancarlo, a venture capitalist and former Cisco executive.

Google Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
June 16, 2008... Google Inc. said Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc. will let its members import claims data into their Google Health profiles. It is the first insurer to support the new online service.