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RIM chief suggests method for eavesdropping
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In an AP interview, co-CEO Jim Balsillie says governments that want to access private BlackBerry communications could ask companies for the encryption keys, and that would be okay with RIM.
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Hot Skills
0What are the hot skills to work on in 2011? I found this article that gives you a list of some of the things that companies will be looking for according to a survey in Computerworld. It’s a fairly standard list of generic skills that companies are looking for, but it ended with something that I think that people often overlook: business acumen and communication skills.
How many of us have to work with someone regularly that is not a technologist? How many times do you have to explain something to a business person in a way that is devoid of technical jargon? I would bet that most of us have to do that. However it seems that too many technology professionals still want business people to better understand what we provide with our computer hardware and software. Instead of us learning more about the business, we want the business to tell us what we should do.
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HP settles with former CEO Hurd
0Less than two weeks after suing Mark Hurd for taking a post at competitor Oracle, the two companies settle out of court after he agreed to return stock to HP.
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Big Data and SQL
0I ran across this article on 8 Big Data Deployments in Detail, which was funny since the detail consisted of an old system, a new one, a capacity, a date, and a paragraph. If that’s detail, then I wonder what a synopsis would be. Only one of the 8 was using SQL Server, and that had even transitioned to a ParAccel system. Most of the other systems used Oracle previously and they ranged from 7TB (not big, IMHO) to 2.5PB (which is big).
Despite that lack of any real information on what these companies were doing, I did see some interesting things listed. There were a few notes that mentioned compression in a few places, often column store based compression that dramatically speeded up processing for the systems.
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Wall Street firm: Netflix, Google to pressure cable
0Credit Suisse says younger people turning to Netflix and dropping cable. Streaming Web video from Apple and Google also threaten cable companies.
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