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| SPOTLIGHT STORY | | | Bill Gates has no identity
|  By Dave Kearns
If you've ever heard Bill Gates speak, you know that he has the vocal charisma of a frog serenade accompanied by chalk on a blackboard. Yet he almost always speaks to standing room only crowds as he did at last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Back in 1998, when Gates keynoted Comdex in Vegas, I asked the first people in line how long they had been waiting to get in - they had been there a full 7 hours before the speech just to be sure of getting "a good seat." If it isn't his presence, or his deathless prose or even the cadence of his delivery - what is it that keeps people waiting in line to hear him? Read full story Dave Kearns is the editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management as well as a consultant to both vendors and users of IdM technologies. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Complete Guide to eDirectory." His other musings can be found at the Virtual Quill, an Internet publisher which provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail. Comments to this newsletter can be e-mailed to Dave here. | | | |  | | RELATED NEWS: | | | Podcast: Top Identity Management trends for 2008 As part of our Prediction Week of podcasts, we talk with David Ting from Imprivata about the top identity management predictions and issues for the year. Learn about the swing back to thin-client computing (through virtualization), whether enterprises are truly ready for biometrics, and why the insider threat will be even more important in 2008. Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million, 01/14/08 The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about $1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected. Congressional report rips U.S. TSA Web site security, 01/11/08 A Web site commissioned by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists originally had multiple security problems that could lead to identity theft, says a congressional report released Friday. | |
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