Science Still Has a Lot to Learn From Star Trek

June 18, 2005

News from the BBC today that researchers have developed a new model of time travel that uses quantum mechanics to explain one of the more difficult paradoxes of time travel – that if we were to travel back in time we might disturb the past, which might change the present. The new view seems to […]

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The Falling Cost of Solar Power Technology

June 18, 2005

The NYT has an article on the falling cost of solar power: In the 70’s it seemed that buyers of solar systems were mostly isolated tree huggers who somehow had a small fortune to spend on panels, but now urban and suburban homeowners are looking to the sun hitting their roofs for relief from rising […]

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Mastercard Security Breach Affects 40 Million Cards

June 17, 2005

Mastercard is reporting a breach of security that at first instance seems breathtaking in its scope: MasterCard International reported late this afternoon that more than 40 million credit card accounts of all brands, including 13.9 million MasterCards, may have been exposed to fraud through a security breach at a third-party payment processing company. MasterCard said […]

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BJ’s Settles Data Breach Case with FTC

June 17, 2005

Computerworld reports that BJ’s, the US wholesale club, has entered into a consent order with the FTC arising out of a security breach of customer data: Millions of dollars of unauthorized and fraudulent purchases were made on customer credit and debit cards after the customers had visited BJ’s stores in early 2004, the FTC alleged. […]

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Online Data Rooms

June 17, 2005

Computerworld has a short piece on the growing popularity of online due diligence.

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The Scramble to Protect Personal Information

June 16, 2005

Tom Zeller has an interesting article in the NYT about what is going on behind the scenes in the effort to protect personal information in the aftermath of recent accidental disclosures and data losses. My favourite quote: “I think there are some people who dismiss this as a sky-is-falling problem,” Mr. Gibbons said. “But the […]

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Pricing Consulting

June 16, 2005

Tom Evslin had a great post yesterday on pricing consulting. The same analysis applies to law, in my experience.

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Oversold Security Risks

June 16, 2005

Gartner has released a report on the five most oversold security risks: fear of mobile malware the belief that VoIP is unsafe concerns about wireless hotspots the equation of regulatory compliance with security the idea of a superworm that could spread on the Internet in a matter of minutes As would be expected, the reason […]

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Technology – The Fifth Wave

June 16, 2005

Business 2.0 has an article (subscription required) about The Fifth Wave – their description of the next ‘big’ era in IT development, characterized by the fusion of cheap computing, infinite bandwidth, and open standards. Via Om.

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Joel on Recruiting

June 16, 2005

Joel on Software responds to Gretchen on recruiting.

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Spyware Delivery Through BitTorrent

June 16, 2005

EWeek reports on the growing use of BitTorrent as a spyware delivery system by Adware marketers. There’s more info in this post at Vital Security. The eWeek article features the typical industry justifications of spyware; here’s a point-by-point rebuttal.

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US VCs in Canada

June 15, 2005

Andrew Willis writes in a recent Globe on the relative success US VCs are having getting deals in Canada: Domestic venture capital funds are being pushed aside by U.S. rivals, and risk missing out on big paydays as the pace of financing explodes at private Canadian companies. May was a blockbuster month for venture capital, […]

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