Frank Hayes

Articles by Frank Hayes

Learning from the dead

Real innovation is messy, expensive and highly inefficient. Mostly, it just doesn't work. Sure, when a really...

Master of your own domain

Sure, .biz and .aero and .coop are big news. But let's talk about sex - specifically, sex.com....

Playing the name game may teach you something

Take five minutes and try something: Make a list of the 10 Web addresses you'd be most likely to guess for your company's Web site if you didn't know its actual domain name. (If you can't think of 10, throw in a few likely misspellings to pad out the list.)

Beating the IT age bias

If you're an IT worker over 40, you're 16 per cent more likely to lose your job than a younger IT worker. It will take you 21 per cent longer to find a new job than a younger applicant, and it will be 25 per cent harder just to get an interview. And when you finally get that new job, you'll typically take a 13 per cent pay cut.

Dirty little secrets can cost

What were the people at Sun Microsystems Inc. thinking? OK, we know what...

When the good go bad

It's a crazy time, no? The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is busy implementing an open-everybody's-e-mail project...

Anyone have any extra programmers?

In Germany, politicians are fighting over whether to allow tens of thousands of foreign programmers into the...

DOJ decision: the bunk stops here

The biggest piece of bunk that pundits were peddling in the wake of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's...

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