Art Jahnke

Ask any CIO to name the Holy Grail of the IT executive, and he or she is likely to say "alignment". In fact, last...

For almost a month now, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been collecting comments about the pros and cons of creating a No Spam Registry that would attempt to do to spam what the Do Not Call registry did to telemarketing calls. How does it look? According to a recent article in The Washington Post, the cons have it, in more ways than one.

Remember, not so long ago, when people used to talk about the turnaround in the IT job market that would arrive in the first quarter of 2003? Some of those people are still talking about a first-quarter turnaround, but now they mean the first quarter of 2004.

High-tech is a relatively young industry, one whose major growth spurts postdate the birth of the women's movement. So it might be reasonable to assume that the industry would escape some of the gender inequities that infect the management of industries that have been around for a century or two.

Corporate types looking for one more reason to work at home may find it in a new study ...

Companies that buy goods and services overseas and pay for them in local currencies know that what...

For a company that builds guidance systems for military missiles, Raytheon Co. showed questionable judgment when it aimed a lawsuit at 21 people who posted anonymous messages on a financial Web site operated by Yahoo. In the suit, Raytheon obtained motions demanding that ISPs reveal the identities of their customers. Raytheon drew heavy fire from privacy advocates and even from major newspapers, such as The Boston Globe, which reported that some information that Raytheon was complaining about had already been revealed in public filings.