Archive for July, 2007
Hardware horrors…
The Irish Examiner newspaper carries this story in the Business section of its website today. A UK hardware chain is having to rebate customers following an ‘administrative error’ and what the Examiner describes as a ’system failure’ over the weekend.
Customers who paid by credit or debit cards found themselves being charged multiple times for the […]An Enron Zombie rises from the grave
The IT Compliance Institute carries a story on their website as of 6th July that like the monster in all good horror movies, Enron has had one last spurt of scandalousness.
“After nearly $89 million was paid to former Enron employees to replace money they lost in employee stock ownership and 401(k) plans when the company […]A timebomb or a trainwreck-in-waiting?
The BBC website carries this story today about a looming Information Quality problem. For information to be of ‘quality’ it needs to meet our expectations. One basic expectation is that you are able to get at the information. The British National Archives warns of a “digital dark age” as a result of obsolete file formats (does […]
