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Monday December 30, 2002

[H]ardNews 6th Edition - Blair's Edition

IBM ChaChing:

I guess that guy that told me IBM had moved to a service based revenue model was not kidding.

NEW YORK (AP) - IBM Corp. and investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. signed a massive $5-billion US contract Monday that will transfer the bank's computing responsibilities - along with 4,000 workers - to the technology giant. The deal had been expected since November, when J.P. Morgan said it was focusing only on Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM for the outsourcing contract.

Computerized Cockpits:

Now that you think about it...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Pilots flying on instruments when the sky is too dark, cloudy or stormy to see the ground must slow their procedures while they scan a myriad of gauges one at a time and determine the significance of each number.

"The question is why?" says vision scientist David Still. "The pilot's the same. The airplane's the same. The atmosphere's the same. The only difference is how the pilot's getting information about how things are going."

Drunken Driving Benefits:

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - A funeral home director is adopting a strategy to shock motorists into staying sober - free burial for anyone who signs a pledge to drink and drive on New Year's Eve.

Lunar Capital:

I am still going down to the Horseshoe to gamble.

What’s billed as the biggest and most expensive hotel ever built on Earth is attempting to make a controlled landing in the gambling capital of the United States. But Las Vegas, we may have a problem: It’s going to take some serious cash before the resort project called “Moon” makes a touchdown in reality.

Posted by Kyle 3:55 PM (CST)