Hey, docs: Someone stole your data.
The Blue Cross Blue and Blue Shield Association is warning about 800,000 doctors (nearly every practicing physician in the country) that a laptop containing some of their personal information was stolen, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Microsoft had rented the museum for a private party and a screening of the most recent ” Harry Potter” movie. After the film, the roughly 600 attendees received a free Xbox 360 video-game console.
The Netflix warehouse in Carol Stream does not appear on any map. Your odds of finding it are slightly better than your odds of stumbling upon a rare insect in a field of weeds. One could drive to Carol Stream, stop in a random office park, climb from one’s car and scream, “Reveal thyself, Netflix!” This is not advisable. But the temptation remains.
There have been a series of ridiculous articles lately claiming that, with the collapse of some newspapers recently, somehow investigative reporting and local coverage won’t work, meaning an era of corruption and the collapse of democracy. Fortunately, some are demonstrating the fallacies underlying these proclamations of doom.
A question inspired by this week’s news that Research in Motion, the company that makes the BlackBerry, has become the chief sponsor for U2’s next bombastic world tour: Who exactly is profiting from this deal?
We’ve finally reached the point at which some of the finest minds doing the biggest thinking about the battered news business believe the best eraser for red ink is… charity. Financial pros David Swensen, the chief investment officer at Yale, and his colleague Michael Schmidt posit that the best way to save journalism is to go the nonprofit route, funded by endowments. But is it?
In its day-to-day workings, EveryBlock.com, Adrian Holovaty’s Web 2.0 start-up, is about as far from colorful as a business can get. And Holovaty, one of the nation’s hottest computer programmers, isn’t afraid to tell you so.
Granted, most of the recent TV buzz has been about, rightly, “Mad Men”: Who wouldn’t want to spend summer Sunday nights delving into the deeply misogynistic psychosexual underbelly of a Kennedy-era advertising agency?
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