Microsoft Plans to Create 1,000 Apprentices in London

Technology giant Microsoft plans to create 1,000 apprentice opportunities in London over the next three years, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced today. The Mayor joined Business Secretary Vince Cable to launch National Apprenticeship Week in...

Danica McKellar And DeVry University Host National HerWorld® Month

Millions of jobs will become available in STEM related fields by 20181, but with U.S. children falling behind in STEM education, the next generation of job candidates will be unprepared and unqualified to take advantage of these career opportunities....

On-the-Job Learning the Microsoft Way

We now accept as axiomatic that proposition that, whatever your job may be (assuming you have one), you will have to be learning new things about how to do it while working at it. Microsoft has decided to take a proactive approach to this proposition...

Identity on Planet Google

Yesterday I finally got around to watching Ken Auletta’s talk about his Googled book, which I had saved on my VTR from its Book TV broadcast. I had read several reviews of the book, and I have been familiar with Auletta’s style of both...

Free No More?

Rupert Murdoch has long been looking for a way to drive a stake through the heart of the information-wants-to-be-free vampire. Is Microsoft now offering him that stake? According to a team of Financial Times reporters tracking a common story from...

Sidekick Meets the Service Economy?

The title of John Webster’s post to his Data-driven blog, maintained by the CNET Blog Network, promised a valuable follow-up to the unfolding story of the Sidekick data-loss incident: “What the T-Mobile outage means for consumers.”...

Sidekick Recovery News

The latest word on the aftermath of the Sidekick data-loss incident seems to have come out early this morning on the Hardware 2.0 blog, maintained by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for ZDNet. Given that the last report I cited, provided by Ina Fried for...

Insulting the Victim?

Ina Fried has continued to track the Sidekick data-loss story for CNET News. However, as I tried to indicate on Sunday, this is a case where we need to go beyond the “facts of the story,” so to speak, and interpret those facts in an effort...

It Happens (even Without the ‘SH’)

Of all the stories in Robert Heinlein’s Future History series, the one that probably influenced me the most was “Blowups Happen.” On the surface this is a cautionary tale about dealing with the risks of catastrophic circumstances...