Offshoring
Business Week , 9/9/04: "India Has Ingenuity"
That's why Tata Consultancy Services's Faqir Chand Kohli says the country's "cost of doing innovative technology is very, very low"
Clearly visible through the windows of Faqir Chand Kohli's office in Nariman Point, Bombay's financial district, is the graceful sweep of the city's bay and beyond that, the bewildering number of high rises that are rapidly changing the colonial city's skyline. Kohli has occupied the corner office for 30 years as chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, Asia's largest software services outfit. Led by Kohli, the concern pioneered India's phenomenal rise as a power in software outsourcing. Advertisement
Kohli is in that office even now, four years after he retired. That's because his job as India's pioneering software professional is not over. These days, the solemn, 80-year-old Kohli has a singular obsession: Using his technical expertise to help develop India. Kohli is worried about the Indians who don't have the benefit of education -- especially the country's roughly 250 million illiterate adults. Since retiring, he has helped developed an innovative computer-based functional literacy program for adults.
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Security
Wired, 9/11/04: New Windows OS Boosts Security
SEATTLE -- For years, programmers at Microsoft and elsewhere have worked to make it easier for devices like cell phones and personal digital assistants to work instantly and easily with computers.
Now, Microsoft is working to make it a little harder.
The reason: As such devices including Apple Computer's popular iPods become capable of holding more data, some worry people could use them to steal data or unleash virus attacks on business networks.
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The Register, 9/13/04: Virus 'talks' to victims
By John Leyden
Virus writers have created a piece of malware that 'talks' to victims. The Amus email worm uses Windows Speech Engine (which is built-in to Windows XP) to deliver a curious message to infected users.
The message reads: "How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye". "Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea). Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure has posted a sound file generated by the message here.
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PC Management
PC Magazine, 9/9/04: Norton Ghost 9.0
Symantec's Norton Ghost has a long history of saving Windows systems by creating backups of a full drive that could be stored on—and restored from—another partition on a hard drive, removable media, or even across a network. Ghost got the job done, but its technology lagged.
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 9/10/04: Gartner: Ignore Longhorn and stick with XP
Longhorn looks increasingly like a product intended to simply fill in a gap in the schedule
By Matthew Broersma
Microsoft Corp. may choose never to release its vaunted and long-overdue project WinFS, following its removal from the next version of Windows, according to analysts Gartner Inc.
The recent announcement that WinFS would not debut in Longhorn after all -- following a warning this spring that features would be axed -- makes Longhorn look increasingly like a product intended to simply fill in a gap in the schedule, Gartner said in a research note to customers. However, the firm is sticking with its recommendation that companies standardize on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), so that they have a choice to shift to Longhorn if it turns out to be worthwhile.
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