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The Google-Postini deal

BusinessWeek’s Stephen Baker on Google’s purchase of Postini:
Yes, Google’s $625 million deal for spam-fighter Postini adds another business application to its portfolio. But when I heard about it, I thought only one thing: Our bosses will gain an ever more powerful tool to search and analyze our e-mails and messages.
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As Google storms into the market, […]

2007 07 14 Barry Campbell Uncategorized Comments (0)

Etherbeat, R.I.P.

The audio soundscape on the Net just got a little less interesting: Etherbeat, a net radio station that played wonderful, sometimes obscure jazz, funk and world-beat music, has closed its virtual doors.
It’s with a great deal of regret that I am announcing the closure of Etherbeat Radio. Proposed legislative changes are signalling a new climate […]

2007 07 08 Barry Campbell Comments (0)

Gartner predicts: Nearly Half of IT Jobs will be Lost to Automation by 2015

By 2015, 40% of today’s IT job roles will be lost to automation, predicts [the Gartner Group.] Although the number of people employed in the US manufacturing sector has declined steadily during the past 50 years, productivity per worker continues to rise and has doubled in the past 20 years.
‘The same trend will be true […]

2007 02 16 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

The online malware market

Microsoft says its new operating system, Windows Vista, is the most secure in the company’s history. Now the bounty hunters will test just how secure it is.
When its predecessor, Windows XP, was released five years ago, software bugs were typically hunted by hackers for fame and glory, not financial reward. But now software vulnerabilities — […]

2007 01 30 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

How to Jumpstart Your Career

Careers are easy to neglect. If the paychecks keep coming and the boss is tolerable, most people get into a routine and direct their attention elsewhere.
While that’s an adequate way to put bread on the table, it probably won’t win you any big raises or promotions.
So, whether you’re hoping to stay at your current employer […]

2007 01 11 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

Immigration economics 101

Foreign-born entrepreneurs were behind one in four U.S. technology startups over the past decade, according to a study to be published Thursday.
A team of researchers at Duke University estimated that 25 percent of technology and engineering companies started from 1995 to 2005 had at least one senior executive — a founder, chief executive, president or […]

2007 01 04 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

Forecast 2007: The Outlook for IT

ComputerWorld brings us Forecast 2007: The Outlook for IT…
“What you need to know about this year’s hot skills, top technologies, and spending trends.”

2007 01 02 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

Tech Pros Unconvinced IT Boom Will Last

Most IT professionals believe that the current IT boom has little juice left, according to a monthly report on the state of the tech job market published Dec. 4 by New York-based Dice, an IT careers site.
Sixty-two percent of respondents said they don’t have confidence that the current IT boom would last much longer. Thirty-two […]

2006 12 12 Barry Campbell Knowledge work Comments (0)

Cracking the BlackBerry

…or “Hacking the CrackBerry,” etc.
The security model of that BlackBerry on your hip isn’t holding up very well to third-party scrutiny.
According to a white paper by John O’Connor, a researcher on Symantec’s security response team, hackers can pay $100 for an API developer key that can open doors to the theft of data from Research […]

2006 12 02 Barry Campbell Tools and techniques Comments (0)

The return of the online grocery

Webvan, a grocery delivery service, was one of the most colossal and expensive failures of the dot-com boom.
But quietly, in the last few years, there have been some interesting success stories in local delivery of groceries ordered online.
Carrie and I are enthusiastic and frequent customers of FreshDirect, the NYC-metro online grocery service, and there’s a […]

2006 11 22 Barry Campbell Comments (0)