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Identity Thieves’ Latest Scam: ‘Pharming’

April 6th, 2005 at 11:30 pm » Comments (0)

First online crooks went “phishing,” and now they’re getting into “pharming” to reap their harvest of potential identity-theft victims.



Floating Windmills

April 6th, 2005 at 11:22 pm » Comments (0)

Australian engineer Bryan Roberts wants to build a power station in the sky — a cluster of flying windmills soaring 15,000 feet in the air — but is having trouble raising enough money to get the project off the ground.



Norway to Close Companies with Too Few Women

April 6th, 2005 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

Norway will shut companies that refuse to recruit at least 40 per cent women to their boards by 2007 under an unprecedented equality drive, a cabinet minister said.



Using Blogs in New Product Development

April 6th, 2005 at 10:13 pm » Comments (0)

On Wednesday, April 20th, Thomas Frey will be giving a talk on “The Role of Blogs in New Product Development”. This talk is open to the public.



Order Out of Chaos

April 6th, 2005 at 2:22 pm » Comments (0)

Bruce Sterling: We used to rely on philosophers to put the world in order. Now we’ve got information architects. But they’re not doing the work - we are.