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Baseline archives from December 2004
Industrial Strength Security?(management of information security in the industries)
December 6, 2004... It was described by a former U.S. Air Force chief as the "most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," with devastating results for a nation's energy infrastructure - and it was set off by a programming routine in an...
Oh, Yeah, the Computers ...(Kmart Corp., Sears, Roebuck and Co., acquisition)
December 6, 2004... Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced an $11 billion merger last month, spent an hour extolling the virtues of the deal and mentioned information technology-actually, the acronym "I.T."-only once.
Amid all the talk of real estate...
Offshore Options.(costing outsourcing)(Brief Article)
December 7, 2004... View the PDF -- Turn off pop-up blockers!
Most comparisons of the cost of outsourcing technology operations to other countries focus on the difference in salary between the U.S. and the developing world. While that's a significant part of...
Paying Less for Passwords.(survey on password retreival)(Brief Article)
December 10, 2004... Lost or forgotten passwords account for about 17% of all calls to the help desk, according to a 2004 survey from The Help Desk Institute (HDI) , a professional organization for support staffers. That's up 2% from the previous year, indicating...
Commentary: Congrats, Larry.
December 13, 2004... Congratulations, Larry Ellison. You finally got your prize in PeopleSoft. And it only took you 553 days and $10.3 billion. Consider it an early Christmas for Oracle.
The PeopleSoft takeover saga became a foregone conclusion over the...
Triumphs & Trip-Ups In 2004.(Toyota Motor Corp., Ford Motor Co. sales and earnings)
December 20, 2004... The most intriguing-and discouraging- projects and returns on investment in 2004 were separated by the simple motivation of self-interest. It's in Ameritrade's self-interest to automate and innovate in the way it serves its customers online....