Larry Barrett

A panel of industry and policy experts polled by the Software & Information Industry Association came to the same conclusion as the online masses: Google is the most significant e-commerce development of the past decade. In the release announcing the top 10 e-commerce developments since the White House released its “Framework for Global Electronic Commerce” […]

Demand for highly trained and certified IT security professionals is forcing CIOs and IT managers to shell out higher salaries, and to adjust their budgets to meet the increased security expectations of their customers and their executive management teams. In the past six months, salaries for certified IT workers rose 2 percent, bucking a yearlong […]

Joe Will and other San Jose Sharks executives finally have something to smile about this spring. Their National Hockey League team is back in the playoffs—and with a lighter payroll.That means Will is probably doing something right. He is the Sharks technology guru and has been collecting data about the performance of pro players, sticking […]

Computer Associates ousted its chairman and chief executive over accounting concerns. Ditto for Nortel Networks, which booted its CEO and chief financial officer. What will you do if your vendor hits turbulence? /zimages/3/74217.jpg Its a question worth pondering given Aprils executive high jinks, corporate housecleaning and financial restatements. Whether its Computer Associates horrid month culminating […]

Non-obvious relationship awareness (NORA) software probes databases in any language, searching for obscure matches between relevant information. Anonymized data (ANNA) software uses the same technology to investigate data that has been encrypted. SRDs patented technology allows users to discern obvious and so-called “non-obvious” relationships between data sets in multiple databases. This view can help identify […]

/zimages/2/17485.gifFor decades, no city has attracted more dubious characters into its buildings than Las Vegas. The lure of quick scores has made Sin City the most vigilant and diligent user of advanced surveillance, identification, background-checking and security technologies. If domestic security were prosecuted as aggressively as casino security, the terrorists that took down the World […]

While building a multimillion-dollar structure, the imprecise choreography between a general contractor, a dozen or so subcontractors and hundreds to thousands of laborers is anything but graceful. When things go awry with just about any single task—such as installing the concrete foundation or plumbing—the fallout can bring construction on a new metropolitan hospital or the […]

You are a salesman for the New Balance Athletic Shoe company. Youre driving to Boulder, Colo., one Monday in July to meet with the regional buyer from your top account, The Sports Authority. Your cell phone rings. Its Jim Tompkins, president of New Balance. “Is your forecast right?” he asks. “Where are the orders to […]

LeapFrog Enterprises may enjoy strong demand for its educational toys, but the Emeryville, Calif. manufacturer could use a primer on how a supply chain needs to work as Christmas approaches. The basic lesson: a company should think twice before putting off the deployment of new software for managing the manufacturing and distribution of toys, when […]

Darwin John had established himself as a bit of a miracle worker before being asked to lead an information- systems renaissance at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But John, former director of information and communications systems for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, needed divine intervention to help him navigate the politics, pressure […]