Tuesday, December 31, 2002|
IT Staffing Crisis Looms in India. Companies involved in IT services and outsourcing can't fill management positions fast enough in India. For a billion-dollar industry, that's no small problem. Ashutosh Sinha reports from New Delhi. [Wired News] 3:39:54 PM  comment
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Chernobyl proved that a badly designed and badly managed reactor could cause an accident capable of killing a small number of people and slightly increasing the cancer risk in a large area nearby. The worst nuclear power could do was thereby proved to be modest damage compared with the safety and environmental record of coal, oil and wind. Yet Chernobyl instead left the impression that all nuclear power was unsafe. Likewise, the Raelians may have just made it more difficult for science to convince a skeptical public that reproductive technologies and genetic engineering can deliver benefits. No matter that they have already begun to deliver magnificent benefits: fertility for the infertile, safe insulin for diabetics, new drugs for cancer victims, individually targeted drugs for mental patients, vitamin-A-rich rice for poor children in poor countries--even the promise of stem cells to repair the damage wrought by Parkinson's disease.
Against these benefits, the disaster of one sick child produced by the premature use of reproductive cloning might seem to be a small setback. But public debate does not work that way. It takes benefits for granted and makes a massive fuss of costs. The principal victim of the backlash to Eve will be stem-cell research. |
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Remote Wireless Data: The Time is Here. Wireless data was overhyped and then ignored by enterprises. Now, convincing ROIs are starting to emerge. Should your company reconsider? [allNetDevices Wireless News] 1:51:43 PM comment
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Mobile in Mankato. Mobile carriers are waking up to the potential of offering fixed wireless services using license-free spectrum. A combination of fixed wireless, 3G, and even 2.5G service could be the foundation of a powerful, pervasive business plan. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 1:39:52 PM comment
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Milk Flows From Desert at a Unique Saudi Farm. Al Safi, deep though it is in the Saudi desert, has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest "integrated" dairy farm in the world. By Craig S. Smith. [New York Times: Business] 1:20:48 PM comment
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AT&T Wireless could owe $6B if W-CDMA rollout is late. AT&T Wireless could be on the hook for as much as $6 billion to NTT DoCoMo if it fails to roll-out W-CDMA service on time, according to an SEC filing. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News] 1:05:34 PM comment
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It's just freaking cool. The most compelling effect in Minority Report, for me, was the visualization of active paper. Last night we watched it again, and later some friends dropped by. To put this in context, I live in smalltown New Hampshire, not Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley. There is lots of dialup Internet happening here, and DSL is growing, but Wi-Fi households are rare. When a topic came up in conversation, and I flipped open the TiBook to check it out, I had an epiphany. The future really is here, albeit not evenly distributed. I didn't mention, and I'm sure it didn't occur to my friends, that I was connecting wirelessly to the Internet. It seemed completely natural that "the Internet" would be "in" this little box, whether or not wires were running to it. The technology is disappearing into the woodwork, as it should. It is becoming a small-i internet. ... [Jon's Radio] 1:04:37 PM comment
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Six top security issues for executives. Understanding the external and internal threats is key to protecting your company's information assets. Here are six tips to help you gain that knowledge. [Computerworld Security News] 12:55:10 PM comment
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