Still at It
I was disturbed by a story in the New York Times this week about Google’s ongoing issues with European regulators and the lead is all you need to get a sense of things: “BRUSSELS — A top German official called for Google to be broken up. A French minister pronounced the company a threat to […]
McAfee CIO: ‘Embrace the change’
It’s a cliché to say that IT and the CIO role are undergoing a significant shift. Many studies andresearch provide evidence that people outside IT expect greater responsiveness to business needs. This expectation goes by many names and buzzwords, all of which share similar meanings: Infrastructure vs. digital CIO (PDF download) Chief Innovation Officer Two-speed IT Revenue-generator CIO (PDF download) Chief Improvement Officer The […]
Setting Goals and Rewards
You should check out “The Second Machine Age” by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT. It’s a thoughtful analysis of the technology progression handed to us by Moore’s Law and its effect on every aspect of our lives. Their thesis is pretty simple but also powerful. Early in the computer age, we developed transactional […]
Race Against the Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Sloan School of Management have written an interesting book for our times — our economic times — with an appealing metaphor that any technologist will appreciate. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming […]
Ten great software glitches for 2010
Top ten failure lists are a dime a dozen. This one is exceptional because the guy who compiled it wrote the book on this subject.
Intel & McAfee? Why Not GOOG & ADBE?
I don’t get the whole Intel buying McAfee thing. Sure, security looks like a good business. But Intel is a chip company. Yeah, microprocessors are mostly software down under, but that doesn’t mean Intel has the soul of a software company. Call me Old Fashioned, but I’m in the camp of thinking there needs to […]
Malware is a cloud-scale problem
The old downloadable signature file method of anti-malware protection is flawed in today’s era of cloud-scale malware threats, say a new generation of vendors. I caught up recently with Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Webroot, to learn more.
McAfee.com sleeps through its nightmare scenario
About ten years ago, I met with the then CIO of McAfee.com, Doug Cavit (who later joined Microsoft as chief security strategist). The thing that most kept him awake at night, he told me then, was the risk of a third party piggy-backing onto McAfee’s own trusted access into its customers’ PCs. As a long-term […]
Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers November/December 2009
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES*
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Eliot Axelrod became Senior Account Exec […]
