Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Information brokers wonder why they don’t get any respect. But if they want to understand why, all they have to do is use … their own documents. This is what executive editor John McCormick and senior writer Deborah Gage showed so starkly in “Blur,” their cover story about data giant ChoicePoint (June,p. 32). Data flies […]

Chris Erice works for a medical services company in downtown Honolulu. He’s surrounded by banks. The nearest teller machine is located less than 100 feet from the lobby of the office building in which he works. So when he wants to make a deposit to his savings account, he walks a block away. To the […]

110 cameras, on the ground, on the fuel tank and elsewhere on the shuttle. Two trailing weather planes, taking photos through a telescope. 90 sensors on the wings, taking note of the impact of any objects. Radar, to track movements. That’s the quick summary of technology NASA is using to try and prevent any disaster […]

Symantec made “one enormous mistake” in its pursuit of storage software supplier Veritas, according to statements Symantec CEO John Thompson made on Monday, in his first public comments since the merger of the two market leaders was completed Friday. “We didn’t say ‘why,’” Thompson said in an interactive discussion Monday morning with about 80 CIOs […]