Sequester 'Armageddon' Has Been President Obama's Y2K

It's just past Y2k, and this pilot fish is a newly hired manager at a medium-size construction company in the UK. "The chairman hired me on the basis that one of my first jobs was to reduce head count," says fish. "Soon after starting, I ventured to ...

With healthcare reform in the United States regarded as the biggest opportunity to come Indian software's way since the Y2K bug, IT services providers are shopping around to tap into the Rs 1-lakh crore (USD 20 billion) bounty. They are enhancing ...

It's just past Y2k, and the foreman at this manufacturing plant has zero experience with computers, reports a pilot fish there. "We installed a computer station near our assembly area to print bar-code labels for our product," says fish. "We had to ...

Back when we all feared Y2K and extremely flared jeans were cool (that's 1999), "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel dated former 'N Syncer Lance Bass . Yup, the same Lance Bass who came out six years later. And though the actress has talked about ...

I'VE ALWAYS been a worrier. In the runup to 2000 I stockpiled water and fretted over Y2K, when it was feared computers would crash at midnight on December 31, 1999, thereby paralysing society. This never materialised but I continued to keep ...

Josh Dugan already has his own chapter in ''Raiders hoodoo'' history, when he scored a stunning last-gasp try to continue St George Illawarra's misery in Canberra. Now the 22-year-old's situation is reflective of a new focus on the old curse cliche, ...

John Whitefoot writes: The new millennium taught us two important things. First, the Y2K bug was an urban legend, and second, you cant trust the pomp and flash of a dot-com company. Theres no silver bullet to investing; you still need to do ...

EOL means no more patches and security vulnerabilities increase on a daily basis. There are things in life that are just painful -- Doing dishes, paying taxes, going to the dentist, and upgrading software. One of the most painful IT life cycle ...

Ask any post Y2K kid who Iron Man is and high chances are they'll point to Robert Downey Jr. So synonymous is the actor to that character, just as how the Audi R8 is synonymous with Tony Stark's ride of choice in the movies. In the first movie the ...