Beyond | IT

Yesterday I sent an email along these lines to a few friends: Automotive part counterfeiting costs about $12B/year – just for Tier 1 suppliers . Part counterfeiting costs Ford alone $1B. Beyond automotive, according to the National Association of...

Al Gore's been giving presentation on climate change for 18 years. How did he go from a sleep-inducing machine to Oscar-winner? This article in BusinessWeek shows how design and audience (aka the "presentation user") experience made the difference. There...

My colleague, Beth Patton, makes a very interesting point about the impact of improving OS security. For the second half of 2006, Symantec rated Microsoft as having less vulnerabilities and a faster patch time than the other most commonly used operating...

The NY Times reports that the Department of Defense created Joint Patient Tracking Application so that military doctors around the world can access patient medical histories -- and while it's used in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is mostly not used in the...

Welcome back for Part 2! I didn't expect this to be a series when I wrote the original post , but two things happened recently that might (I hope :-) ) make a second post interesting. First, Reuters picked up a story from the Nikkei business daily headlined...