DHS to go low-tech

The Homeland Security Authorization Act requires that more than 50 percent of the components in any end product bought by the Department of Homeland Security be produced or manufactured in the U.S. Oops: “With this purchasing prohibition, I guess (the department) will have to learn to do without computers and cell phones,” ITAA President Harris …

high school principal run amuk

in yet another case of an overzealous high school principal squelching free speech, Winona Senior High School’s Nancy Wondrasch doesn’t want students wearing buttons. When senior Carrie Rethlefsen began wearing an “I (heart) My Vagina” button to school, she says she was trying to speak out against violence toward women. However, Winona Senior High School …

mike lazaridis gets it

Inc. magazine has a piece on 26 most fascinating entrepreneurs. There’s Craig Newmark (for putting the free in free markets) and Mike Lazaridis, who really get it: Mike Lazaridis, whose company launched the BlackBerry in 1998, developed his philosophy of innovation as an intern at Ontario’s Control Data in the early 1980s. He often saw …