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| October 2008 |
Cloud Computing & Home Security (October 6, 2008) On the work front, I have a few recent stories to highlight. First, InformationWeek recently ran my round-up of Internet-enabled home security systems. Soon: Secure your home from your iPhone. Next up: cloud computing. Regardless of whether you think the term is the Next Big Thing, or already so over-hyped as to be meaningless, businesses are applying on-demand applications and storage in innovative and cost-effective new ways. And whenever technology costs less and gets easier to use, that's good news. In fact, cloud computing does appear to deliver, as I discovered when speaking with companies which are running their entire business in the cloud. Another emerging trend, albeit one that is much less advanced than software-as-a-service applications: procuring IT infrastructure via cloud computing. Look for more cloud computing-related stories soon. (Now if I could just get my photographs section updated.) |
| May 2008 |
My First Forbes.com Story (May 21, 2008) Watch Your ID? (May 19, 2008) Two new feature stories to plug:
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| March 2008 |
When Hackers Go Free (March 14, 2008) I field answers to that question from such people as renowned ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick; the principal deputy chief of the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Christopher Painter; Jon Erickson, author of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation; and Cisco information security expert Jimmy Ray Purser. The verdict: securing gainful information security employment with a conviction on your record presents challenges. (And that's putting it mildly.) |
| February 2008 |
The Grand Palais mounted a massive Courbet exhibition, which soon moves to the New York Met (February 27–May 18, 2008). Worth a visit. Meanwhile, the Pinacothèque de Paris paid homage to expressionist Chaïm Soutine, in his first retrospective since 1973. Also at the Pinacothèque: “One Jump,” Magnum photographer Alex Majoli's series for the 2007 Cannes Festival, of jumping celebrities. Finally, and perhaps most notoriously, the Bibliothèque Nationale staged l’Enfer (Hell), which included selections from the library's collection, begun in the 1830s, of persecuted, condemned, and suppressed works — contraires aux bonnes mœurs. The National Library labels the exhibition as a celebration of eroticism, fantasy, desire, politics and pornography. For more on all the exhibits, see "Paris Celebrates Courbet, Soutine, and Hell at the Library." |
| January 2008 |
Rebooting Records Retention (January 15, 2008) |
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Mathew Schwartz
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