Kevin Fogarty

In this eWEEKs Daily News Podcast for June 9: Data losses at the VA, Hotels.com and elsewhere may spur greater regulation, more lawsuits; VA secretary recalls laptops, audits security, adds rules to protect privacy; Windows attackers are finding flaws in disturbing new ways; IT managers become villains in procurement scams; compliance spending levels off, but […]

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: CA loses another top executive; Google is emerging as the poor mans Microsoft; YMCA customers are the latest victims of laptop-with-sensitive-data theft; Microsoft product announcements include security, BI and BizTalk; and HP Puts AMDs Turion 64 X2 to work. To read more about any of these stories, click on […]

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Microsoft and Adobe settle up on PDFs; AMD looks beyond the PC; JetBlue prepares Web access in the air; 38 percent of companies admit hiring people to read other employees e-mail; Hotels.com and Ernst & Young scramble to make up for customer info lost with stolen laptop.

eWEEKs Daily News Podcast for June 1, 2006 Steve Ballmer offers no apologies for Microsofts planned increase in capital investments; Microsoft will roll out a roadmap for collaboration tools in early June; CAs fortunes are drooping this quarter; an IT manager fired for violating security policies is suing under the SarbOX Whistleblower protection; Novells OpenSUSE […]

Changing the supply chain it uses to deliver parts and services to the U.S. military may help Lockheed Martin win new contracts, but improving its internal supply chain and manufacturing turned out to be the only way the company could keep up with increasingly complex weapons systems like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Traditionally, when […]

Performance-based logistics, or PBL, is a logistics model that puts in place specific goals and metrics to evaluate success. In the U.S. military version, it generally means that the Department of Defense buys not only a product or weapons system from a vendor such as Lockheed Martin but also an ongoing maintenance and support contract. […]

The U.S. military, which spends more than $90 billion per year on logistics and resupply, is modernizing and outsourcing much of that work to save time and money—and raise its level of preparedness. And Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, one of the militarys principal contractors, is not only restructuring many of its own services but also building […]

Wired magazine has posted the full text of the evidence former AT&T technician Mark Klein has presented to back up an accusation that AT&T helped the federal government spy on phone and Internet traffic. The documents, here in PDF form, include descriptions of the fiber-optic splitters, routers and wiring Klein alleges that AT&T set up […]

Wired magazine has posted the full text of the evidence former AT&T technician Mark Klein has presented to back up an accusation that AT&T helped the federal government spy on phone and Internet traffic. The documents, here in PDF form, include descriptions of the fiber-optic splitters, routers and wiring Klein alleges that AT&T set up […]

The good news about privacy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is that more than 80 percent of companies involved in health care have technology and processes in place to provide the level of patient-privacy protection required by the 1996 law. The bad news? All were supposed to have done so by April […]