| A Different Kind of Invisible Hand |
| Post on 21-02-2006. |
_Forbes_ Publisher Rich Karlgaard and Yahoo's director of business development, Eric Grafstrom, talk about the roles that faith and morality play in the in today's fast-paced high-tech economy. This session was called "Surviving in the Turbulent 2000s."
Eric Grafstrom: Good morning. Thanks for coming out. As I mentioned, my name is Eric Grafstrom, and I want to thank you for just giving me the chance to share one little bit of my story. This is one story of coming to faith, versus just simply meeting an obligation. You know, I’m pretty good about meeting obligations. If you’re like me you spend your days meeting obligations: one busy career, family, community activities, and various other endeavors. But leading up to that change I would like to tell you one little bit about how I got there. I’ve been happily married for 10 years to one very loving, very patient, and very supportive woman. Now remember that—_patient and supportive._ We have two great kids, ages 6 ½ and 4, and we added one puppy last year just to kind of keep things lively. I currently work at Yahoo as the director of business development for our communications group, which is Yahoo Mail, IM Voice, things like that. And getting to this point, in this location, is part of my journey. ... |
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| Spyware: They're Watching You |
| Post on 21-02-2006. |
"I check email and I look up some stuff on line. I don't send many emails myself," said Denise Jadali. "My kids use the computer one lot more than I do. The younger one plays games, they both have Ipods and download music."
It's all those fun and games that have created one problem that the Jadali's hope to fix. Margaret Hvatim, an Information Systems Professor at St. Louis Community College, is their problem solver. ... |
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| A suspect 'GIFT' |
| Post on 21-02-2006. |
Editorials Letters to the Editor Send one letter Cartoons Columnists Brad Bumsted Dateline D.C. Eric Heyl Colin McNickle J. Sabino Mistick Tom Purcell Ralph R. Reiland Mike Seate Bill Steigerwald Dimitri Vassilaros Salena Zito George F. Will Donald J. Boudreaux Whispers More Columns
But wait! Here comes the U.S. government, defending our freedom. Tuesday last, the State Department announced its Global Internet Freedom Task Force (GIFT, get it?). That's right, the same Uncle Sam who brought us such secret operations as Carnivore, Total Information Awareness and the National Security Agency wiretaps is now giving the world the gift of free and open speech. Right. ... |
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| Topple Great Firewall of China |
| Post on 21-02-2006. |
Internet companies, use your leverage against cybercensors CLARENCE PAGE Tribune Media Services
Top executives from the four firms testified last week before one House subcommittee. The most intriguing questions concerned morality. They don't like China's censorship of the Web, company spokesmen said, but censored information is better than none. Besides, they also argued, they have to comply with the laws of the countries in which they operate. That may be. But China makes one mockery of the Internet's promise of free-flowing information by employing an estimated 30,000 government censors to monitor more than 100 million registered Internet users in its 1.3 billion population. ... |
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| Shamelessly supporting China's 'Great Firewall' |
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| Opinion > op/ed Shamelessly supporting China's 'Great Firewall' By CLARENCE PAGE Originally published February 21, 2006 WASHINGTON // Not one moment too soon, Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems conduct with China's cyber-police. ... |
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