Offshoring
The LA Voice, 4/18/2005: Sweat Ship: Team Plans Offshore Assault on L.A. Coders
Of all the dystopian futures imagined for Los Angeles, none have been stranger than the truth. Get a load of this horror:
Three San Diego entrepreneurs plan to start a cut-rate outsourcing plant for software development three miles off the coast of Los Angeles aboard a used cruise ship moored in international waters.
Wired with a fat T3 pipe fed by microwave, SeaCode would employ 600 developers - the bulk of them non-U.S. citizens - who could crank out code around the clock at a lower cost and higher rate of efficiency than their American counterparts ...
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 4/19/2005: Microsoft set to release patching tool, service in June
Service will be aimed mostly at small businesses and consumers
By Joris Evers, IDG News Service
LAS VEGAS - After several delays, Microsoft is set to deliver in June the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) patching tool and the Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Update (MU) software patching service, a company executive said Tuesday.
Both MU and WSUS were originally due in the first half of 2004, but were delayed several times. Microsoft has blamed the delays partly on work it had to do on Windows XP Service Pack 2, a security-focused upgrade to Windows XP released last August. Most recently the company has said it would deliver MU and WSUS in the first half of 2005, a target it expects to make.
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Microsoft Watch, 4/19/2005: Choppy Waters Surround Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
By Mary Jo Foley
The first reports from users installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 are in. And as was the case with its client counterpart—Windows XP Service Pack 2—the latest Windows Server service pack breaks several key Microsoft and third-party applications.
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Otherwise
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/22/2005: Knowing When to Log Off
Wired campuses may be causing 'information overload'
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
David M. Levy, a computer scientist who loves technology and gets more than 100 e-mail messages a day, makes a point of unplugging from the Internet one day each week to clear his head. Even so, with all the e-mail messages flooding in, with academic blogs bursting with continuous debate, and with the hectic pace set by an increasingly wired world, Mr. Levy says he cannot help but feel an occasional sense of information overload.
And that, he says, is something to stop and think about.
Mr. Levy, a professor at the University of Washington's Information School, is one of many scholars trying to raise awareness of the negative impact of communication technologies on people's lives and work. They say the quality of research and teaching at colleges is at risk unless scholars develop strategies for better managing information, and for making time for extensive reading and contemplation.
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