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2003-06-14The Cusp of a Revolution: How offshoring will transform the financial services industry || A Deloitte Research financial services industry viewpoint. If offshoring of financial services is considered a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform an industry, what is the promise for offshoring IT that would have management leap at it? Does have management leap at it? Time to look around some more. Bullfighter�� Stripping The Bull Out Of Business || A consulting jargon fighter from Deloitte Consulting. The BullFighter home page. The tools for stamping out the bull in MS Office 2000 and later MS Word and PowerPoint documents. Holy Change Agent! Consultants Edit Out Jargon. The consultants at Deloitte Consulting have come up with a tool that helps purge documents and slide presentations of consultant speak. Good. 2003-06-13The GNU Privacy Guard - GnuPG.org. A source on all matters Open PGP and what there is to do with it. International Herald Tribune online: Code 'warrior' to quit corporate battlefield. This is more on Justin Frankel, Nullsoft, and Waste. It turns out that the publishing and then withdrawal of Waste happened at the end of May. OK, where can I find out about this goody? The NaradaBrokering Project @ IU Grid Computing Laboratory. Now that I think about it, this could be highly relevant just as Waste is. More to look into. Wired 11.07: McNealy's Last Stand. An article on how Sun has missed the market and its own combativeness may be its greatest weakness. Fatal flaw? Who knows. Stay tuned. NewsFactor Network: IBM, Infineon Claim Memory Breakthrough. O boy, o boy, here it comes. I predicted that my next computer would be a tablet PC and that it would have 100GB of RAM. I think I have enough computing capacity right now to be able to wait. The prediction on the memory, based on Flash technology, was that it could happen maybe by 2007. Then I started hearing about scaling problems with Flash. Well, it looks like it won't be flash, it will be MRAM, and it is non-volatile operating at performance levels of SRAM and cost of DRAM. If the usual return to scale and size applies, 100GB should be no more expensive than a high-quality hard drive of that capacity in not that many years. Yummy. Will �Waste� Push File-Sharing Further Underground?. I saw the news about the sudden appearance and disappearance of Waste, but this is interesting. It strikes me that it might provide the right kind of regimen for connecting across Miser platforms, and I should look further. I will dig around for source code. 2003-06-12Taming The Beast. About the heavy costs of legacy systems and their perpetuation, preservation, and the legacy nightmares an enterprise application integration might become. Who's in the Loop? USC Tool Maps the Email Labyrinth. Valuable for historical research, the ability to locate and identify the nexus of conversations and how and when people interacted and collaborated and discussed a topic may be valuable in finding and entering and leaving conversations in a collaborative activity. Although the surveillance aspect should not be discounted, this powerful way of visualization and exploration is intriguing and important. Discover: Dialog with social scientist Sherry Turkle, a psychologist in cyberspace. This is about the human approach to cyber-entities and also the impact on humanity of the creation of other intelligent agents in the world. A big item for Computing Milieu, for sure. ACM: Ubiquity - Lowering the Cost of Computation. This article discusses the difficulty of distributed computation with regard to dynamically locating other entities, agents, and services. The organization for locating a service to provide a computation can swamp the work to do the computation itself. An overview of work designed to make this tractable and, most of all, scalable. 2003-06-08TheTechMag.com - The Future of Personal Computing. An interesting article that addresses the User Illusion and the Aesthetics of Technology to predict a wildly different PC and experience of personal computing. One question is whether such an appliance should even be called a personal computer at that point, but I suspect our kids will work that one out. It will, apparently, be a matter of what popular culture makes of it. And, there is a lot of good material to think about here. Maintaining an appropriate User Illusion is also an important idea, because the level of incoherence in PCs and the connected world does not provide a rewarding User Illusion. InfoWorld: XMPP vs SIMPLE: The race for messaging standards: May 23, 2003: By Cathleen Moore: Standards and Protocols. There are two developing IETF standards that offer solutions for enterprise messaging applications. The apparent overlap and consequent interoperability issues will need to be worked out. Apparently, the proponents of each see themselves as having the winner, so now it starts. Guardian | The third era starts here. The web is becoming programmable as the result of published APIs to existing services (amazon and Google, for example) and the emergence of web services that can be accessed from other applications on the desktop and the Internet. More on this important trend. ABCNEWS.com: Grim Outlook for Grads. The class of 2003 is stepping into a shaky job market according to this analysis. More on the tech downturn and the impact in terms of fewer vacancies and lower starting salaries.
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