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An obituary for British technology consultant and author James Martin is presented.

PETER COCHRANE, a technology consultant, entrepreneur and blogger, usually unwinds on the train between his home in Ipswich, England, and London with coffee, cookies and a newspaper. But during a memorable trip in March 2006, neighboring passengers disturbed his relaxation rituals by behaving in a very un-British manner: They were loud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

8:37 p.m. Updated During the insider trading trial of the expert network consultant Winifred Jiau, the government's central witness referred to her as ''the Poohster.'' And as is the case in the adventures of Winnie the Pooh, it was a sweet tooth that brought her down. On Monday, Ms. Jiau was convicted of selling technology company secrets to hedge fund traders for hundreds of thousand of dollars, payoffs she referred to in code as ''sugar.'' Though most knew the technology consultant as Winnie, some of her hedge fund clients called her the Poohster, after the bear always in search of a pot of honey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Aided by lax oversight and by corporations that profited from his scheme, a former technology consultant stole $3.6 million over six years from the Department of Education to finance flashy cars and real estate speculation, federal authorities said on Thursday. The investigation revealed another embarrassing lack of supervision in one of the city's technology projects, just four months after federal authorities charged seven people in what they called an $80 million scheme to steal from CityTime, an automated payroll system that ballooned in cost to more than $700 million, nearly 10 times over budget. It also comes as the Education Department plans to invest more than half a billion dollars next year to upgrade Internet access in every school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Federal authorities charged another technology consultant with conspiracy and securities fraud on Wednesday in a widening investigation of insider trading. The charges were filed against Winifred Jiau, 43, a consultant for an expert-network firm, Primary Global Research. She is accused of leaking confidential information about the Marvell Technology Group and Nvidia to two money managers at different hedge funds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHRISTINE FERRARA, a 39-year-old public affairs director for the Institute for Advanced Study, a research center in Princeton, N.J., has a passion for modern architecture and design. It began in 2008, when her husband, Steven Birnbaum, a technology consultant, bought her an airy modern home with floor-to-ceiling windows. It was to be her own little place, to decorate as she pleased without regard for his more traditional tastes or worrying that their three children might break something. ''I had seen the house on Craigslist and thought it was too frivolous to buy for myself,'' she said. ''But he gave it to me for Christmas, probably not realizing what he would unleash.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides information on the reason why Hal Staniloff, a biometric technology consultant, choose to buy a three-bedroom house in Katama, Massachusetts.