<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Digital Capital</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><description>Digital Capital</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Dot-Com Back: Varsity Group Turns the Corner]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41461-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41461-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Inside    Varsity Group Inc. 's 11th-floor headquarters in the District, clutter twentysomethings in jeans are doubled and tripled up in small offices. A rear wall is about to be knocked down to make more room. For the first time in four years, the e-commerce company is bursting at the seams.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Deconstructs  Dot-Com Bombs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3750-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3750-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[David A. Kirsch and a rotating staff of loyal students have created a digital database that lists more than 2,300 companies, archives that may someday prove useful in capturing the craziness of the Internet boom. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Ellen McCarthy</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visa Issues  Vex Tech Workers, Their Employers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30851-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30851-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dawn M. Lurie knows how to wake up her audiences when she briefs personnel managers on immigration law: She points out that in some cases, executives could face criminal penalties for hiring immigrants without the right visas.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Offshoring Forces Tech-Job Seekers To Shift Strategy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61078-2004Sep29.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61078-2004Sep29.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The frenzied rhetoric about technology jobs going overseas has quieted in recent months. While doomsday predictions for the domestic tech industry have subsided, there's clearly a trend toward exporting some jobs.  <BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Networkers' Crowding Achievement]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24829-2004Sep15.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24829-2004Sep15.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the first time in months, the Washington area tech set could fill their mornings and evenings with events, and the leaders of many local organizations say they have ambitious plans for the year ahead.  <BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Ellen McCarthy</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Center Nurtures Newborn Security Cos.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13360-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13360-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Innovation Center is an Annapolis incubator focused solely on developing homeland security technologies.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From EntreMed To Financing Biotech Dreams]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41219-2004Aug4.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41219-2004Aug4.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John W. Holaday,  the former biotech executive, looks a little out of place as he peers out from behind a bank teller's desk. There should be old-fashioned glass windows between the money handlers and the customers, he decides while knocking on the cherry wood frame. As he steps into the bank's steel-encased vault, a look of reverence washes over his face.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather Junkies Keep This Bug  In Business]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4365-2004Jul21.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4365-2004Jul21.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just past the Motor Vehicle Administration office in Gaithersburg, deep in commercialized suburbia, a faceless warehouse contains the nerve center for the largest network of weather stations in the world.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence Work Comes to CACI Via Acquisitions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35630-2004Jul7.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35630-2004Jul7.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In January 1998,    CACI International Inc. 's chief financial officer,    James Allen , talked about the company's plans for growth. "We're not in the intelligence community right now," Allen told an MSNBC reporter, but he predicted that the sector would eventually be a "great marketplace for us."]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA Is Making No Secret of Its Technology Intent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1085-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1085-2004Jun23.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sitting in a dark boardroom and flanked by World War II spy posters,    Harry D. Gatanas  is blunt about what's happened at the    National Security Agency  over the past 15 years: The code-breaking organization lost its technological edge.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tending to Employees in a War Zone]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29895-2004Jun9.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29895-2004Jun9.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The checklist that    Science Applications International Corp . gives employees about to be deployed to Iraq includes such practical suggestions as how much underwear to bring (enough for two weeks) and what type of insect repellents work best (those containing the chemical DEET). The company recommends that employees complete personal wills and assign powers of attorney before shipping off.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's Looking for a Few Good Data Analysts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57903-2004May26.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57903-2004May26.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a quiet office park in McLean's business district, David Tittle spends his days scoping out the best-of-the-best intelligence experts and code breakers. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Ellen McCarthy</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Offshoring Is for Small Businesses, Too]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51882-2004Apr28.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51882-2004Apr28.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Union officials and Democrats might not want to hear it, but    Prashant P. Kothari  says the controversy over offshoring has actually helped him send more work to India.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing With Clearance Insecurity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13388-2004Apr14.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13388-2004Apr14.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dennis F. Negran , who oversees    ManTech International Corp.'s  recruiting efforts, surveyed the dozens of people who were moving around a large meeting room in the basement of the Metro Center Marriott as they filled out forms, stopped for snacks at the buffet table and talked to recruiters and benefits representatives.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Security Arrives as the New Big Thing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40906-2004Mar31.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40906-2004Mar31.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Steven I. Cooper, the    Department of Homeland Security 's chief information officer, had just wrapped up a speech at the government technology trade show FOSE last week when they began lining up: a dozen or so eager information security company executives making on-the-fly sales pitches.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology Center Modifies Its Focus To Secure Funding]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3287-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3287-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Peter Jobse, president  of the    Center for Innovative Technology , typically invites first-time visitors to his office to take a long gaze out the window, to the low, rolling hills beyond the Dulles Toll Road. It's a vantage point calculated to display tech-laden Northern Virginia in all its affluent, office-park leafiness.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Top Of the World In Fairfax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28820-2004Mar3.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28820-2004Mar3.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stepping into the hallway outside his sun-filled office,    Gerald L. Gordon , the man charged with bringing businesses to Fairfax County and keeping them there, points proudly to a clock displaying London time. And one with Frankfurt time. Tokyo time. Tel Aviv time.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venture Capital 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53216-2004Feb18.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53216-2004Feb18.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exit strategy. Exit strategy. Exit strategy. If the 13 students in    Mark Grovic's  MBA class at the    University of Maryland  want good grades this semester, they're going to have to do a lot of thinking about exit strategies.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Tech Council: Seeking a Jump-Start]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14380-2004Feb4.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14380-2004Feb4.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While many local tech membership organizations have shrunk recent years, the D.C. group has fared worse than most. Its leadership has been in transition for 18 months, and its membership has declined by a third from its peak in 2000. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Ellen McCarthy</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panel Urges Md. to Invest in Venture Funds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37106-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37106-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_technology/techthursday/columns/digitalcapital</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:41:04 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[High-tech boosters in Maryland have their eye on a $30 billion untapped resource that, they argue, could help catapult the state's technology sector: the state employee pension fund.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item></channel></rss>