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Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Now the grand old age of 25, Zuckerberg founded the social networking phenomenon while studying at Harvard in 2004 and now presides over a company that is valued at around $10bn and topped 300 million active users... [08 Oct 2009]
Facebook: 'We're making money'
News Zuckerberg's blog post also highlighted a new trend in his rhetoric about the company he founded in 2004 as an undergraduate at Harvard: They run a tight ship. Facebook announced on Tuesday it has achieved a positive... [16 Sep 2009]
Business Interfaces, Performance Networks - And a New View of Alignment
White Paper Performance management has traditionally been a hierarchical discipline, one that follows a top-down approach. Organizations roll up budgets, cascade scorecards, drill down to locate deviations from the plan. [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google is digitizing the works from many major libraries, including the New York Public Library and the libraries at Stanford and Harvard universities, and is making those texts searchable on pages with advertisements. [21 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Researchers from the software giant, along with academics from Harvard University, have developed a protocol that the company claims could be the foundation for products that meet Federal Communications Commission... [20 Aug 2009]
ERP End-User Business Productivity: A Field Study of SAP & Microsoft
White Paper Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and sponsored by Microsoft. In this white paper, measurements are discussed of how end users of Enterprise Resource... [13 Jul 2009]
The Consequence of Non-Cooperation in the Fight Against Phishing
White Paper A key way in which banks mitigate the effects of phishing is to have fraudulent websites removed or abusive domain names suspended. This 'Take-Down' is often subcontracted to specialist companies. It analyses six months of 'Feeds of... [01 Jul 2009]
Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing
White Paper Criminals use web servers to host phishing websites that impersonate financial institutions, to send out email spam, to distribute malware, and for many other illegal activities. To reduce costs, and to avoid being traced, the criminals... [01 Jul 2009]
Tips for Identity Theft Protection
White Paper An identity thief takes personal information and uses it without knowledge. The thief may run up debts or even commit crimes in name. The following tips can help lower risk of becoming a victim like protecting social Security number,... [01 Jul 2009]
EmID: Web Authentication by Email Address
White Paper It suggests that OpenID should use email addresses rather than URLs as identifiers, and show how OpenID can be adapted accordingly with relative ease. Email addresses provide better backwards compatibility with existing web... [30 Jun 2009]
Major Hospital Enhances Auditing Infrastructure Using SQL Server 2008
White Paper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is the largest member of CareGroup Healthcare System. BIDMC needed a better auditing solution to help ensure compliance with... [30 May 2009]
Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier Storage Systems
White Paper Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier organization is cost, as storage tier costs vary considerably. [29 May 2009]
Wolfram Alpha: The Google rival that aims to dig deeper
News In a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Wolfram said: "Like interacting with an expert, it'll understand what you're talking about, do the computation, and present the results in such a way you'll... [29 Apr 2009]
An Architecture for Extensible Wireless LANs
White Paper Off late wireless LANs are a mess. The current 802.11 family of WLANs involves a jumble of competing standards, and a slew of implementations with varying degrees of interoperability and conformance to those standards. [01 Apr 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment These returnees are the subject of a study America's Loss is the World's Gain released earlier this month by researchers at Berkeley, Duke and Harvard universities in collaboration with the Kauffman Foundation. [17 Mar 2009]
