Posts Tagged with ‘industry’

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]

The last few weeks have been hard on financial markets all over the globe. From New York To Tokyo to London to Beijing, the stocks of many an exchange have been pushed up and knocked down repeatedly with no sense of reason to speak of. Fear has taken hold.
Why do we talk of such madness here at Profy? Because the worldwide roller coaster has quite a few technology companies strapped in for the ride, and it seems fairly sensible to [...]

By now you’ve probably gotten a bit familiar already with OiNK, a peer-to-peer venue that recently had itself publicly manhandled and forced offline by both Dutch and English authorities last week. And you’ve likely received word that The Pirate Bay promised to “re-launch” the operation, albeit with a ‘B’ added to its title (so “BOiNK” will be its new name; cheeky, eh?).
Well, today you’re going to get another little factoid to add to your daily dose of nifty news to [...]

Yesterday’s Financial Times ‘Digital Business’ section turned over a rock few want to uncover, but should. The issues of inequality and prejudice. It uncovered some background grumblings about a disconnect in the IT world, about women and their diminishing or non-existent interest in the computer sciences, program and web development, and many other things bits- and bytes-related.
It’s pretty much a given that the average male geek will come to realize that the pool on the other side of the spectrum [...]