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Texas Comptroller Takes Blame for Major Breach
Days after firing two IT managers after a data breach exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data of over 3.5 million Texans, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs took personal responsibility for the incident.
The Macalope Weekly: A Tale of Two Pundits
Editors’ Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week’s coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macworld. As a result, the Macalope is always free to criticize any media organization.
How to File an EEOC Employment Discrimination Charge
Talk to many IT professionals over 40 and they’ll tell you age discrimination is rampant in the field. They’ll share stories of being passed up for jobs because they’re too old and about the subtle and not-so-subtle ways hiring managers and HR personnel ask them about their age (e.g., Do you have any kids?
Three Dirty Little Cloud Secrets
Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater.
Stop the Cloud, I Want to Get Off!
Remember when the “cloud” was just called the “Internet?” This absurd fascination with naming online services after suspended atmospheric condensation is kind of driving me nuts. For around 14 years, millions of people have used Hotmail , but they didn’t use a “cloud email solution.” When we were all ripping our CDs a decade ago and looking up track information on the CDDB , we weren’t using a “cloud music information service.” Look, it’s just the Internet, people.
Sony Apologizes, Details PlayStation Network Attack
Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment (left), Shinji Hasejima, CIO.
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SAP Won’t Pay $1.3B to Oracle Until Case Is Over
Oracle will have to wait a bit longer to get its hands on the US$1.3 billion awarded to it last year by a jury in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.