IT Management
Fortune, 12/18/02: Finally a Productivity Payoff from IT?
We are just starting to figure out how best to use computers and the Internet for business.
FORTUNE
By David Kirkpatrick
Even though computer technology has become a major part of contemporary business, the productivity gains achieved so far have not been proportionate to the scale of investment. Even though companies now spend, on average, 37% of their capital budget on IT, U.S. productivity numbers have only crept up modestly over the past few decades, though they have accelerated markedly since 1995. For all of the obvious and monumental changes in how we live and work, we are still just starting to figure out how best to use IT.
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Security
The New York Times, 12/23/02: Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running
By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ
In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system are already in place.
Because of the inroads the Internet and other digital network technologies have made into everyday life over the last decade, it is increasingly possible to amass Big Brother-like surveillance powers through Little Brother means. The basic components include everyday digital technologies like e-mail, online shopping and travel booking, A.T.M. systems, cellphone networks, electronic toll-collection systems and credit-card payment terminals.
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CSO, 12/02: Q&A: Securing the network
CSO Larry Bickner, vice president and information security officer of Nasdaq, answers readers' questions.
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Technology Heros
The Economist, 8/21/02: The other Bill
For a quarter of a century, Bill Joy—“the Edison of the Internet”—has envisaged a world in which countless devices are wired together. Now he is trying to turn that vision into a reality, but not without warning of the risks to society
“OPERATING systems”, Bill Joy once declared, “are like underwear—nobody really wants to look at them.” For more than 25 years, the mantra that computing should remain simple and that operating systems should be hidden in the background has been a guiding principle for Mr Joy, chief scientist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. That quest for simplicity has made him one of the most influential and prolific inventors in the computer business.
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