GlobalSpec in USA Today
A group of engineers was honored Tuesday for concocting a plan using plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to save Apollo 13's astronauts after their spacecraft was crippled by an explosion 35 years ago. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert would have died without the engineers' quick thinking, said John Schneiter, president of GlobalSpec, the New York company that presented the award — a crystal globe.
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VeriCenter in ZDNet blogs
Carr suggests that IT utilities will pose a problem for companies such as Dell, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, which thrive on selling direct to multitudes of corporate customers. The winners will come from the full-service vendors like IBM, HP and Sun; established hosting providers like VeriCenter in Houston; the Web utilities like Google, Yahoo and Amazon that have expertise in building large-scale infrastructure; and as yet unknown start-ups.
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Fieldglass in Wall Street & Technology
In his first law of motion, Sir Isaac Newton stated that, "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it." While this law was intended to explain actions in the physical universe, it could easily apply to the corporate universe as well - particularly when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley (aka SOX or Sarbox).
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JustEnough in Convenience Industry News
A key business challenge facing the convenience store industry today is effective demand management. When fluctuations in demand are not predicted accurately, then profit margins face massive business risk.
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SHARE in Computerworld
At the SHARE user group's conference here last week, a chunk of big-iron history was put on display as part of the group's 50th anniversary celebration. Display cases held items such as ancient tape spools and punch cards, prompting one gray-haired systems veteran to say this about all the mainframe memorabilia: "It's a bit sad when you actually remember them."
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OctetString in DevX
The concept of time travel has been a staple of science fiction since the entertainment genre was invented. Whether it's H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," Doc Brown's DeLorean in "Back to the Future," or any one of several Star Trek episodes and movies over the years, the thought of being able to go back and change history—or at least make the attempt—is very entertaining.
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