On Message with Ben Gross

E-Discovery Leads to Arrest of Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Managers: The Wall Street & Technology Blog covers the depressingly evergreen story of senior management who send messages from their personal accounts about company actions that are illegal. This email about Bear Sterns acknowledged that a senior manager knew the fund was collapsing even though [...]

Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast: Matt Richtel at the New York Times writes about corporate recognition of the costs of interruption and distraction caused by email and other messaging technologies. Richtel now says that many of the companies that are also the largest messaging providers are working together to develop new tools [...]

Man accused of using LinkedIn to steal clients: The Register covers a lawsuit regarding a former employee of a recruitment firm who allegedly used his LinkedIn account to essentially export his contacts from the firm so he could use them to start a new competing firm. This is interesting for several reasons particularly with regard [...]

Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password: Jeff Atwood has a nice point outlining the unfortunately still too common practice of web services that request a user’s login and password from the major web services (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) in order to extract address book information. Not only is this an obviously bad idea, [...]