If you are hanging around this evening with nothing to do, there's a First Tuesday panel on at 6:30 in the Burlington on 'Combating Internet misuse - Reclaim your company's Internet profits'. As you might guess, I am not exactly taking this particular line; instead, I'll be voicing some concern about employee monitoring systems, potential privacy abuses by employers in the name of 'security', and the larger problem of the State retaining three years of employee net and email information (as per Ireland's proposed data retention bill).
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Windows migration strands U.K. shipping [CNET News.com]
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Your Screen on Your Sleeve: New Prototype Wearable Computing Jacket

" 'Bev points us to this AP story and photo about Pioneer, a Tokyo-based firm that has created a wearable computer prototype jacket with built-in sleeve display: "Using an organic film electro-luminescent (EL) display, the wearable computer is being developed with a new information technology by a collaboration of academic institutes and electronic companies. The development is expected to help medical, firefighting, and farming workers.' Link" [Boing Boing Blog]

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But I can guess a few of 'em...: IPO.com Web Site Closes. IPO.com, a Web site that tracked equity sales for six years, has closed, a statement on the Web site said without giving any reason for the closing. [New York Times: Technology]
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Reports implicate Bernie Ebbers in fraud. The former WorldCom chief executive has been implicated in two reports into the $11bn (£6.7bn) accounting fraud that led to the telecoms company crashing last year. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Andre Maurois. "In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." [Quotes of the Day]
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Heh! Turns out the reformed rogue trader Nick Leeson (the man who broke Barings Bank with a $1.3 billion loss) now lives in Ireland, in Galway, and is getting hitched to an Irishwoman in the very near future. He did a very interesting interview on Irish radio this morning. He's amazingly straightforward, un-evasive and self-deprecatory, considering...
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