What did you dream about while you were sleeping last night? Lie detectors? Kim Jong Il? Oil Slicks? Well, innovation was living the dream.1. The Senate is demanding that BP pay $34 billion in fines for the Gulf oil spill. Ahead of ...READ»
So all those purported official tweets from North Korea? Not real, apparently--they're the work of "supporters" in China and Japan. Twitter, with its free-speaking, democratic tendencies, is still forbidden fruit inside the DPRK.READ»
North Korea may have lost control of their World Cup game against Portugal (7-0!), but the nation's also lost control of something much more deadly: Waste products from its attempts to build a hydrogen bomb have been detected in South ...READ»
South Korean intelligence claims China-based hackers stole confidential material from the country's diplomatic and security services throughout 2010. If a new report is correct, hackers inside the People's Republic of China gained access to personal computers and PDAs belonging to much of South Korea's power structure.READ»
CNN has been airing a documentary about North Korea. As the hour-long program shows, dissidents are smuggling in digital cameras and recording the public executions of political activists, as well as glimpses of the country's famine ...READ»
If you ask me what’s the single biggest challenge, I’d say we simply have too many people. The place is too small for that many people and simply cannot support it. 25 years ago 2 billion people was already too many and soon ...READ»
The word "banker" in footballing is the popular slur for the blind man masquerading as a referee who's just given the wrong side a penalty. Bet you won't find that in Goldman Sachs' 75-page guide to the 2010 World Cup; it's part ...READ»
CEO Dad's Tuesday Tirade....
Ever since Tom Stern, the fellow who invented me, gave me my own Web address (ceodad.com), from this new electronic vantage point I’ve been able to tool around on the Internet with abandon. This is ...READ»
While you were setting off fireworks, throwing a coyote on the barbecue, and squeezing on your Stars and Stripes Speedo, innovation was releasing mobile payment systems, scraping together $350 million, and wearing 3-D specs. But not ...READ»
Technology may lead the way out of this recession ... but it isn't happening yet. Here is what technology vendors should do until the market is ready for a revival.READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was dancing the merengue.1. BlackBerry addicts have been given a 60-day reprieve by the Indian government. Today was to be the deadline for Research In Motion to hand over access to its users' data ...READ»
After you put your book down and turned out the light last night, innovation was cramming hard for its exams today--and finding the time to score a goal from an impossible angle.1. San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to pass a ...READ»
It is always a great aha! moment whenever you capture yourself doing a klutzy thing - for if I am transfering my personal orientated tweets to my blog, then I don't need all the paraphenelia of twitter shortform, though I will include ...READ»
These days it's hard to go anywhere without hearing people say that the government should step in and do something about the offshoring trend -- that hemorrhaging of service sector (and, increasingly, of white collar) jobs from the ...READ»
Don't panic, residents of the U.S. of A., your interWeb is safe: Soon 10,000 young cyber warriors will be bravely donning their unifo... uh, T-shirts, and clambering into their cockpi... uh, desks, ready to defend your networks from ...READ»
Computer security is a famously murky world that tends to generate alarmist headlines--like the ones about Apple's vulnerabilities from last week. Defcon 2009 has just finished, and lived up to this reputation in many, surprising, ...READ»
What recession? Last week, at the conference of the American Society for Industrial Security, companies showed off mission-critical technologies and wrestled with the challenges of hypergrowth. A dispatch from the front lines of the anxiety economy.READ»
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protect human rights around the world. HRW directs global attention to
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