Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.

ECONOMIST: Government

Jennifer Jones is news editor at Federal Computer Week.

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He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery.

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Quantitative analyst Vahan Janjigian , editor of Forbes Growth Investor, believes that computer and peripheral distributor Bell Microproducts (nasdaq: BELM - news - people ) is on the rebound.

FORBES: Summer Of Tech

Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.

NEWYORKER: Sliver

"Maybe my data should be centralized on a server where I can simply access it from any computer with a browser, " says Jerry Michalski, former editor of Esther Dyson's "Release 1.0" newsletter, who recently started a company called Sociate.

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The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized.

ENGADGET: Police investigating lost iPhone prototype raid Gizmodo editor's home