Biography
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Managing Security Success
When president Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair got caught with their microphones on last July in St. Petersburg, Russia, The New York Times…
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The 25 Killer Apps of All Time
A “killer app” is not always an especially good application. What a killer app needs to be is the right product, at the right time,…
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A Little Information for Our Files
Partisans of object-oriented programming, often including myself, often say that the only proper programming model is one of data structures with bundles of associated methods…
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Counting the Ways
Is any manager-ial platitude more often repeated, and less often observed, than “What’s measured is what matters”? Before you count another line of code written,…
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Developers See SPOTs Before Their Eyes
The runaway success of Nintendo’s motion-sensitive Wii game controller, with December sales of nearly 1 million units, turned out to be merely a prequel to…
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When Product Cycles Collide
When I heard about the Ford/Microsoft announcement at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, my first thought was the radically different time frames…
