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Advice 5 cents: The role of mentoring in Silicon Valley 27 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
This past weekend I was invited to spend an hour talking about Silicon Valley business with a group of MBA students from Russia. They were on a junket to Palo Alto from the Moscow School of Management...
Microsoft, Ballmer, and the end of the PC era 24 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
So Steve Ballmer is leaving Microsoft a year from now: what kind of schedule is that? It’s one thing, I suppose, for a company to point out that they have a retirement policy or a succession plan, or ...
Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs somehow misses the whole point 19 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
While Mary Alyce and the boys were in Theater 7 this weekend watching Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (“Needs more monsters,” says Fallon, age 7) I was in Theater 2 watching Jobs, the Ashton Kutcher fi...
Eisenhower, Snowden and the military industrial complex 15 Aug 2013 | 09:51 am
Fifty-two years ago, three days before he left office and retired from Washington, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the nation on television with what he called “a message of leave-taking...
Fulfilling customer requirements is a weapon at IBM 8 Aug 2013 | 06:36 am
There are several new data points this week in the ongoing cratering of IBM as an IT vendor. The state of Pennsylvania cancelled an unemployment compensation system contract that was 42 months behind ...
Is cyber insurance AAA for data or another back door? 4 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
A few days ago I promised “tomorrow” a column about the future of data security. Then, just as the electrons were flowing on that DefCon column, I bought on eBay a 1978 GMC Royale motorhome in Bismarc...
The origins of DefCon 31 Jul 2013 | 10:56 am
This week we have the DefCon 20 and Black Hat computer security conferences in Las Vegas — reasons enough for me to do 2-3 columns about computer security. These columns will be heading in a direction...
Google ChromeCast — Fabulous product or fabulous demo? 26 Jul 2013 | 12:11 am
Yesterday Google announced a product called ChromeCast — a $35 HDMI dongle that’s essentially YouTube’s answer to Apple TV. While the event was more Googlish than Applesque (the venue was too small, t...
The New IBM — vampires in our midst 25 Jul 2013 | 10:44 pm
A memo went out this week to managers in IBM’s U.S. Integrated Technology Services division requiring that future use of additional sub-contract (1099) workers must be approved in advance by a directo...
So that’s how H-1B visa fraud is done! 18 Jul 2013 | 12:59 pm
Reader Mark Surich was looking for a lawyer with Croatian connections to help with a family matter back in the old country. He Googled some candidate lawyers and in one search came up with this federa...
