Privacy is dead

Today I want to share a very interesting video with you.
It is the presentation of Steve Rambam on the H.O.P.E. (Hackers on the planet earth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth) conference.
The video is almost 2 hours. Steve speaks about privacy on the Internet (rather about the lack of it) and how information about us is used.
Steve points out that we ourselves give corporations all the information about us when we use google, google maps, facebook, and other services.
Unfortunately, I can't upload this video, so I just give you the link.
The video itself - http://vimeo.com/13644580
Enjoy it!

What is Supply Chain Management?

This is the first of 12 videos in which W. P. Carey School of Business and its department of supply chain management try to describe what the supply chain management is for people who don't know anything about it. I found these series of videos quite interesting and wanted to share them with you. 
Hope you enjoy it!


P.S. Here you can find all the videos: http://wpcarey.asu.edu/supply-chain-management/undergraduate/videos.cfm

Safety in the Internet

As you may know, Sony has recently had some really big issues with its online gaming service for Playstation - Playstation Network. Basically, the service was hacked and it was down for about a week. First days Sony claimed that it was just a maintaining works but later they announced that their network has been hacked and 77 million accounts with full information about their owners were stolen. Those accounts also included credit cards information. There were 12.7 million of redit cards registered on PSN.
I think that this issue shows us how far we are now from safe Internet and full integration of e-commerce in our lives.
Just think about it. Some guys hacked such a big system as PSN. They were able to steal all the information and Sony could do nothing about it. It shows that such hacking is possible. Now ask yourself - Do you feel safe in the Internet?

Nokia's new strategy

I guess, everyone has heard about new Nokia's plan and their strategic alliance with Microsoft. Honestly, I was very surprised when I heard of this alliance, so I started to ask my friends what they think about that and found out that most of my friends were very optimistic about the new strategy of Nokia and future products of this Finnish giant.
As for me, I think that it's the end of Nokia as we know it. I mean, of course, Mr. Elop had to do something to safe that, as he sad, "burning platform" but this is not the way out.
To my mind, this agreement will bring a good profit to Nokia in some years but in long-term it will destroy it. Nokia has always been popular not just as a phone manufacturer but also as a company with it's own ecosystem. No doubts, Symbian is dead and nothing can safe it, but there is still MeeGo. Yeah, nobody knows what MeeGo will look like, but, after all, Nokia would at least stay with its own app store - Ovi, its own OS and its own phones. That differs (differed) Nokia from companies like HTC, Samsung, and LG. But this agreement will make Nokia just another manufacturer of hardware. Microsoft does whatever it wants with the OS and Nokia follows. If we take that WM 7 becomes popular in future, nothing will stop Microsoft from going to another hardware supplier. If it happens, Nokia will be in even bigger problems.
Symbian dies, Qt follows, and it is the death of the Nokia we know. Of course, it will operate, and maybe will make profits, but it won't be successful as it has been two-three years ago.
Of course, there are much more to discuss, and I may be wrong. I hope that I'm wrong.
What's your opinion?