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- Ex-WorldCom financial chief gets five years
- Ex-WorldCom financial chief gets five yearsWay to go, JudgeThese sentences, 5 years for Sullivan and 25 years for Ebbers, seem very appropriate for the level of the crime. While the article did not mention this, I hope that both "gentlemen" will be relieved of their personal ill-gotten gains via...
- Tags: Ex-WorldCom financial chief, Ex-WorldCom, financial chief, Sullivan, financial
- Discussion threads 2005-08-11
- Ex-WorldCom CEO surrenders to FBI
- Ex-WorldCom CEO surrenders to FBIJail time for Corporate execsTo all of those who used the Enron and Worldcomm cases as "proof" that corporate execs don't get punished, look again. In this time of instant gratification, we are prone to expect immediate action when something like this happens.The fact is,...
- Tags: Federal government, Ex-WorldCom, FBI
- Discussion threads 2004-03-03
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- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Tags: Leadership, information technology, mortgage meltdown, IT role, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blanche
- Outside school doesn't equal online carte blancheTime to teach the little buggers, and the idiot parents, a lesson.If I were the principal, I'd file a defamation of character & libel suit against the kids involved, AND their parents...two of whom are obviously low-grade morons at best. Then see what they...
- Tags: principal
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK
- More EDS issues over botched IT project in UKMore EDS issues over botched IT project in UKThis is not the first catastrophe we've had in UK. The list of late and failed Government projects is very long indeed. There's also the small(!) matter of cost overruns, equipment failures and incompatibility...
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- A great day for Larry Ellison
- A great day for Larry EllisonA great day for HumanityNow that heading should spark some interest - A great day for humanity. But I speak as an auditor would speak.Oracle 10 has a feature where data can be requested as it would have been viewed at a set point of...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Oracle Corp., great day, Larry Ellison, Oracle 10
- Discussion threads 2007-12-21
- Save Internet freedom--from regulation
- Save Internet freedom--from regulationIf only.....it were that simple.What the writer fails to acknowledge is the fact that ethics subverted by greed within some companies have done harm to people for the sake of expanding profit thereby inviting regulation on themselves by the representatives of the people whom they were abusing.Given...
- Tags: Regulations, Telecom & Utilities, Rogers Cable, regulation, Save Internet freedom, telecommunications, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Blogging gets corporate with the Blog Council
- Blogging gets corporate with the Blog CouncilLearning EnvironmentWhy should the work environment be so different from the environment we have in US based institutions of higher education? Why shouldn't the work place be like the US universities.The fear that executives have regarding blogging is not explainable unless the executives have...
- Tags: blogging, blog
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chat
- Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chatWell that will get me to write a letter to Whole FoodsThe policy is illegal on its face. But Whole Foods is a US company started in Texas, where Bush was Governor, so I will cut them a bit...
- Tags: Blogging, Whole Foods, blog, company policy, big business, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
- Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policyconfidentiality agreementEvery deal has a side deal in countries like England where the population still thinks its government not corruptible and more like parental units that would never harm the citizenry. The colonists in America split off from England for that exact reason. We...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Fast Times at Web 2.0 High
- Fast Times at Web 2.0 HighYoutube currently...is a collection of rubbish, with a few jems squeezed in, like needles in a haystack.I frankly dont have the time nor inclination to look for the jems.Search results have less than ideal relevance to me, so I've long since stopped bothering, and instead...
- Tags: Channel management, Blogging, Web 2.0, Web, silence
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Dell restates financials; Says books were cooked
- Dell restates financials; Says books were cookedGoodbye Dell, nice knowing youThis isn't a good thing at all. With all the problems in the past there is a big hammer waiting to take vengeance on this type of behavior.So much for SOX complianceAs if Technology is responsible for lying. The...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Deutsche Telekom could cut more jobs in efficiency drive
- Deutsche Telekom could cut more jobs in efficiency driveOn Investment in Connected Multi-NationalsI use to joke that companies with close relations to Microsoft likely were in trouble and not worthy of investor interest because companies that were doing well wouldn't stoop to dealing with known criminal organizations. Deutsche Telekom...
- Tags: Deutsche Telekom AG, stock, job
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Mogull leaves Gartner
- Mogull leaves GartnerBig loss for GartnerRich is an excellent analyst and well respected by his peers and clients.Rule of ThumbIt appears that when a fortune 500 CEO decides security is important it is because without that security the CEO might wind up like the CEO of Enron or of WorldCom....
- Tags: scalability, security, Gartner Inc., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- House panel approves legal shield for bloggers
- House panel approves legal shield for bloggersA good lawBut it doesn't go far enough. It should have also protected online bloggers who do not make any money off their websites through ads and other things.I was happy to see that they put in the 'reasonable exhaustion of other means' thing...
- Tags: Blogging, Vertical industries, government, blogger, illegal act, shield, First Amendment
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Sprint, Google in pact for WiMax mobile Web
- Sprint, Google in pact for WiMax mobile WebSprint, Google in pact for WiMax mobile WebThe last thing I'd ever use would be Google and a mobile phone. Anyone who values their privacy would not fall prey to this trap. Google is more than willing to track where you...
- Tags: WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Universal Access, NYT, Web, spectrum, Google Inc., WiMAX, Sprint Communications, commons
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- CEO says HP doing better, not great
- CEO says HP doing better, not great"Invent great stuff and the customers will find it."Better, Invent great stuff and then a product customers will clamor to buy.If research invents only products, innovation will be incremental. Consider Bell Labs. Somehow products came with the Nobel Prizes.Still, Mr. Hurd shouldn't...
- Tags: Identity theft, Government, Social Security, Operational accounting, Hewlett-Packard Co., great stuff
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Michael Capellas has landed
- Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and MCI formerly Worldcom, has landed at First Data Corp. First Data Corp. is an e-commerce payment company that you probably run into every day via services as the STAR ATM network, TeleCheck and various back-end commerce systems. The company is also being bought...
- Tags: E-commerce, General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- Misusing open source in a good causeI missed it.I thought he was simply comparing the way open source currently shares code and ideas, once mainly the property of companies and research facilitiesusually funded by companies or the government, to an era where the sharing of genetic code and ideas will...
- Tags: Dyson, Open Source Developers, Freeman Dyson, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- What IBM teaches about open source
- What IBM teaches about open sourceIBM is not "generous" to its employees.Here's how IBM gains $3 billion over 2-3 years by cutting off its employees pensions:Quoting:IBM said it would freeze its traditional defined-benefit retirement plans as of 2008. This means any additional benefits workers in these plans were hoping to...
- Tags: Balance sheets, Financial accounting, Benefits, Financial Planning, open source, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
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