Economist Martin Feldstein says the U.S. is already in a severe recession that could be the worst since World War II. And for IT, this one will be different.
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The hard question to ask about the U.S. Census Bureau's troubled "paperless census" isn't "What went wrong?" or "Who's to blame?" It's "What now?"
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Thanks to statistics from a new survey, we now know that the decline in computer-science grads is just about over.
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Pakistan Telecom meant to censor YouTube just in Pakistan. Instead, it sabotage YouTube around the world. You could be next.
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The big French bank took a $7 billion loss last month because of a rogue trader who knew how to get around systems designed to catch bad behavior -- and knew that managers wouldn't stop him.
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It turns out the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptop already uses either IPv6 or IPv4 -- or both. Best of both worlds, right?
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Today is the big day for IPv6 -- the day when IPv6 users can directly access the domain name system without requiring an IPv4 kludge...no wait! Wake up! Don't fall asleep!
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It's usually called "backhoe fade," but this time it's apparently ship anchors that are to blame for crippling the Internet across the Middle East and India. And those problems will hit us, too.
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Sam Zell just told the 20,000 employees of the Tribune Co. that he trusts them on the Internet during work time -- and to prove it, he's getting rid of all Internet content filters.
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