Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
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Despite a heroic search-and-rescue effort, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray's disappearance off the California coast continues to baffle authorities.
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By Dana Hull, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 4--The massive private search for missing computer scientist Jim Gray of Microsoft continued over the weekend, but as of 6 p.m. Saturday there was no new information.
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(Source: Oracle) John Laughhunn, CTO of A.T. Kearney, and Amin Negandhi, CEO of Echelon Consulting, explain how A.T. Kearney consultants worldwide can securely search for information across multiple applications using IC Tracker, an internal knowledgebase. In this engaging 30 minute session, they discuss the requirements, selection process, implementation and roll-out of their system, and how it has enabled secure access to intellectual property to become a competitive differentiator.
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Silicon Valley has long been the stuff of dreams, a place where gawky entrepreneurs create billion-dollar companies in their garages, their innovations sometimes bending the rules but forever changing the way we listen to music or chat with friends.
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By Paul Elias Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- The one winner in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal that has enthralled Silicon Valley appears to be Mark Hurd.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 31--The mystery of what happened to Microsoft engineer Jim Gray deepened Tuesday, with leads of a possible sighting of his boat turning up nothing despite a massive search from Monterey Bay to Oregon.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire -- the Silicon Valley home where co founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
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The rise and fall that came before the rise of the technology industry's biggest star.
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Internet sleuths are turning their attention to the mystery of Lonelyboy43
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO - Extending beyond the skullduggery that pried loose people's private phone records, Hewlett-Packard Co.
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By Oren Dorell  The same technology that keeps cellphone users in touch with their cellphone companies can also help locate people who are lost.
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And rocket-powered cars Letters Sad news this week as California coastguards were forced to call off the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who has been missing since setting out in his yacht last Sunday. A respected IT personality and database developer, Google chipped in with an offer to use its high resolution satellite imagery to aid the search:â¦
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A Turing award-winning scientist who leads Microsoft Research's eScience Group, and whose seemingly spontaneous innovations have touched nearly every aspect of technology, including financial databases, astronomy, and geography in a career that spans four decades, remains missing at sea since having signaled home from his sailboat last Sunday night.
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Steve Jobs' wonder may seem like a sure thing, but in tech, there's no such thing
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Microsoft RAMPs up, while Google flies Radio Reg Talk to a computing legend like Dave Patterson, and you're bound to happen on some unexpected discoveries.â¦
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  PALO ALTO, Calif. - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.