Offshoring
The San José Mercury News, 6/4/04: We can fight offshoring and slide into decline, or embrace it
By Don Tapscott
Companies hoping to avoid controversy by delaying any offshoring announcements until after the November election do their shareholders and the country a disservice. They should announce their intentions clearly. The public needs to learn that offshoring is a key component of long-term economic health and job creation and is not, as critics claim, the cause of job losses.
We need a public debate that returns to first principles. Principle No. 1 is that competitive corporations are the foundation of economic growth. If corporations can exploit the Internet to access cheaper or better production inputs elsewhere, then they should.
In yesterday's industrial economy -- prior to the Internet -- most corporations tried to perform as many functions as possible in-house. This made sense because the cost of partnering was greater than the cost of doing things inside the boundaries of the firm.
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IT Management
C|net, 6/4/04: HP adds backup option for desktops
By Stephen Shankland
Hewlett-Packard said this week it will begin installing Altiris backup tools on the PCs it sells to corporate customers. The software from Altiris automatically and periodically saves "snapshots" of files, software and configuration information. This data will be stored on an otherwise unavailable part of a hard drive. With the software, administrators can make a machine revert back to an earlier state in the event of a problem. Customers also will be able to download the Altiris Local Recovery software for free, the companies said.
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Security
Computerworld, 6/4/04: Symantec nabs first 64-bit virus
News Story by Paul Roberts
Symantec Corp. has captured an example of what is believed to be the first virus that targets 64-bit Microsoft Corp. Windows operating systems, the company said.
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C|net, 6/4/04: Harry Potter and the worm of doom
By David Becker
A leading antivirus company warned Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the coattails of fictional wizard Harry Potter.
British software and services company Sophos reported that infections by the three-month-old "P" variant of Netsky have risen dramatically over the past week, thanks to the worm's ability to disguise itself as a Harry Potter game or book. The heavily promoted movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" opened earlier this week in Britain and premiers Friday in North America.
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Microsoft
Comptuerworld, 6/3/04: Microsoft planning to boost CRM apps
It's boosting integration with its Office 2003 and Outlook products
News Story by Marc L. Songini
Microsoft Corp. plans to roll out enhancements later this summer to its customer relationship management applications that offer closer integration with its Office 2003 and Outlook products -- without additional license fees.
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Otherwise
The New York Times, 6/4/04: An Adolescent Wizard Meets a Grown-Up Moviemaker
This is surely the most interesting of the three Potter movies, in part because it is the first one that actually looks and feels like a movie, rather than a staged reading with special effects. "Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets," both directed with literal-minded competence by Chris Columbus (who has stayed on as a producer) may have been more faithful to Ms. Rowling's text, but "Azkaban" attempts, and for the most part achieves, a trickier sort of translation. This film may disappoint some dogmatic Old Hogwartsians: a few plot points have been sacrificed, and Mr. Cuarón does not seem to care much for Quidditch. But it more than compensates for these lapses with its emotional force and visual panache.
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