The Insurance Tech Guru

Competition to sell technology in the insurance industry is fiercely intensifying, as more players enter the fray and the specter of recession-induced cuts in IT budgets looms on the horizon.

When considering the vendor-dominated steel cage match that the ACORD LOMA Systems Forum has become, however, it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on what the big dogs are doing.

Two U.S. House of Representatives members reported recently that their computers on Capitol Hill containing information about political dissidents had been hacked by sources "apparently working out of China," several stories said this week.

While the insurance industry and high-profile political candidates bow their heads at the altar of global warming (witness the baffling obeisance of Senator McCain), the senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.com has published an open letter to the presidential candidates calling for an unbiased looked at the alleged phenomenon.