From: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080319/020719583.shtml from the it's-that-simple dept TechCrunch points us to a story that I had to triple-check wasn't an early April Fool's release, concerning a Canadian internet company named GeoSign that supposedly raised $160 million a year ago to fuel its Google ad arbitrage play, only to have it all collapse in a year, in part due to Google finally hi...

The Case of the Hired Hacker From: http://www.mcafee.com/us/research/criminology_report/default.html A businessman hired a sixteen-year-old New Jersey hacker to disable the Web sites of his competitors. The hacker launched a program that placed bots on 2,000 unprotected computers that he then used for a distributed denial of service attack. The attacks were repeated over five months and d...

In his new book, Nicholas Carr poses some interesting questions about the way we use technology... "In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form," Carr writes. "It will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud. Business units and even individual employees will be able to contr...