Data Trust
How much do you trust companies with your data? Steve Jones finds a couple new web sites that offer great services, but is it worth the price?
2008-10-26
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Editorial - iPod
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
2008-10-23
68 reads
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
2008-10-22
57 reads
36 Changes
Agile, or maybe even hyper-agile. Steve Jones talks about some challenges in the web 2.0 world.
2008-10-21
62 reads
Data Ownership
Sometimes determining who owns the data or information isn't that easy. Steve Jones has an example from the US election in 2008.
2008-10-20
62 reads
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
2008-10-17
516 reads
The Financial Crisis
With the economy slowing the the world facing a financial crisis, Steve Jones polls the man on the street this Friday.
2008-10-16
63 reads
Moving to the Heartland
With companies like Microsoft and Google building data centers in small towns, Steve Jones has some comments about how this might affect IT jobs.
2008-10-15
56 reads
Too Good at Data Analysis
Can you be too good at analyzing data? An interesting story from the financial markets.
2008-10-13
63 reads
Data Farming
Another spy story involving data that's not true, and perhaps not plausible, but it makes Steve Jones think about data shadows.
2008-10-11
73 reads
Blogs
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