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The article reports on the arrest of Stevan Hoffacker, a former information technology executive at the SourceMedia Inc. in New York for hacking into the company's network, reading confidential electronic mails and tipping off employees who were in line to be laid off. Hoffacker has been charged with one account of unauthorized access to a protected computer network. He will be facing a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000 when convicted.

This article presents an interview with Eric Rosenberg, a litigator and president of Mamaroneck, New York-based consultancy LitigationProofing LLC, about thoughtlessly written electronic mails or instant messages. Rosenberg said we have a tendency when we are faced with great tension to get some relief by writing about it in a way that is less than serious, pointing to former U.S. Federal emergency Management chief Michael Brown writing about how his clothes looked on television during the Hurricane Katrina disaster this past year, as of March 2006. Rosenberg said everyone is at risk for creating writing that is in fact not truthful or exaggerated or demeaning. More than half of them, he said, admit to sending jokes using company equipment and systems. Most, he said, have received pornographic materials at work, and some acknowledge forwarding them on to others.

The article focuses on the development of the Roadrunner, a hybrid machine that enables scientists to perform complex calculations from Poughkeepsie, New York-based International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). The hybrid system still runs Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Opteron chips but adds IBM cell chips. It is noted that in the tests conducted, the supercomputer became the first machine to break petaflop barrier. Furthermore, the hybrid system will run on combination of IBM's PowerPC processor and PowerXCell 8i chip.

The article focuses on applying for testing the wearable computers. Explorers need to pay 1,500 dollars plus tax for the glasses and travel expenses to attend a special pick-up experience in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles. The interest in Glass also sparked bids of more than 15,000 dollars on eBay.

The article reports on the arrest of Viktor Savtyrev, a systems administrator who was laid off by New York-based financial services firm, for alleged threatening to damage the company's severs if his severance pay will not be increased. Assistant attorney Erez Liebermann claimed that the arrest should alert companies that extra vigilance is needed due to increase in layoffs driven by the economic crisis.

The article focuses on the effort of engineers at Poughkeepsie, New York-based International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) in assembling the Roadrunner, a hybrid supercomputer that runs on AMD Opteron processors and Cell chips. It is noted that the Roadrunner is jointly designed by IBM, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. for the PlayStation video game console. The Roadrunner supercomputer uses 3.9 megawatts of power and has dual core Opterons and Cell processors. According to John Morrison, director of laboratory's high-performance computing division of IBM, they built the system under a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory to test nuclear weapons systems and predict climate changes.

Reports on the highlights of the DCI Data Warehouse World Show in New York City. Growth of the data warehousing market; Products announced during the show.