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Data Loss During Downsizing: When Employees Exit, so Does Data

The presenter of this webcast addresses "Data Loss During Downsizing," the results of a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute. In these tough economic times, many companies are going through layoffs or downsizing. According to the results, more than half of ex-employees admit to stealing company data. The attendee will...

Tags: Downsizing, Data Loss, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Webcasts 2009-03-24

Data Loss Risks During Downsizing: As Employees Exit, so Does Corporate Data

Whether they are losing their jobs because of the current recession or simply looking for better opportunities, there are significant numbers of people exiting their current position. In addition to the HR issues, companies should be aware of the possibility that these employees may be walking off with their sensitive...

Tags: Employee, Downsizing, Data Loss, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2009-02-23

Cisco May Cut 2,000 Jobs. But That's Not A Layoff.

Cisco CEO John Chambers, in pursuing another billion dollars of expense reduction, just said on the networking gear company's earnings call that the company could reduce its work force by 1,500 to 2,000 people. But he's not considering a layoff, he said. A companywide layoff,...

Tags: Job, Layoff, Downsizing, Cisco Systems Inc., Workforce Management, Networking, Human Resources, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-04

The open source way to truth

The open source way to truthJournalism vs Blogging...A call for us to write more. I think there is a lot of writing (I BLOG primarily at http://digital-copyright.ca ), so volume of information isn't the issue. The job of the journalist becomes more like the job of a librarian...

Tags: Blogging, downsizing, non-FLOSS, open-source way, FLOSS, Google Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

Full Application of Business Application Assets and Know-How, for a Smooth Downsizing

Tomita Pharmaceutical, Ltd. herein referred to as Tomita Pharmaceutical undertook setup of a new mission-critical system that can support both Web and mobile environments, while making the most of the business application assets they have used over the years. For the rapid migration of their mission-critical system to the Web,...

Tags: Downsizing, Business Application, Hitachi Ltd., Pharmaceutical Company, Migration, Mission-critical System, Storage, Hardware

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Concept cars at the Frankfurt auto show

All of the concept cars we saw this year tended to be on the small side, suggesting the future downsizing of cars. That's okay, as these entrants by Mini, Citroen, Hyundai, and Mazda all look good. by CNET News.com

Tags: Car, Concept Car, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-17

Salesforce rolling out a beefier Service Cloud

Salesforce on Wednesday will announce an upgrade to the Service Cloud offering it unveiled back in January, incorporating enhancements to its social networking tools and announcing plans for the rollout of a Knowledge-as-a-Service offering and crowd-sourcing Answers product. The company boasts that it has been growing at...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-09

30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?

I really don't see the need...Unless you're a hard core gamer or work heavily in the graphics dept...RE: 30% of desktops to have 2 GPUs by 2012 ... Really?Mine has two. And how do you get the little quote box thing? I've been looking to get that on mine for...

Tags: Desktops, Games, GPU, desktop, graphics, Jon Peddie, game

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Ask the Leadership Coach: Outsourcing from both sides of the divide

Leadership coach John M. McKee addresses the effects of global outsourcing. He answers emails from a dedicated employee who was recently let go, and a CEO who is trying to balance the costs and benefits. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. After 17 years...

Tags: Job, CEO, Managed Hosting, Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Ford says you can afFORD their fuel-savers

Hybrids are not inexpensive cars. Ford says they're making a major leap forward for the old-fashioned, cheaper gas-guzzler. Make it sip less per mile. They call their new engineering "EcoBoost," no marketing slouches they. EcoBoost technology is now available in Ford and Lincoln vehicles...

Tags: Injection, Ford Motor Co., Hybrids, EcoBoost, EcoBoost Technology, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Live Webcast: Leveraging SMB ERP for an Economic Recovery

Times are tough but better days are sure to follow. In the wake of an historic economic recession and downsizing, small and medium-size businesses must now turn their attention to the eventual economic recovery as well as their own resulting expansions. But how can SMB decision-makers even begin...

Tags: Recovery, Webcast, Small And Medium Business, Times, Smb/Sme

Webcasts 2009-06-12

Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried

Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...

Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Dell's major units take first quarter hits; IT demand indicators 'remain mixed'

Dell's major units take first quarter hits; IT demand indicators 'remain mixed'Wow!I don't like Dell, but those are horrible numbers.Where is all that government stimulus money?How does Dell compare to Apple these days?Forget market share.How does Dell compare in terms of Net Profit Dollars?The embarrassing part is that Dell has...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Supply chain management (SCM), Desktops, Sales strategy, information technology, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

It's not so easy being e-green

I have a slight Jeremy Clarkson perspective when it comes to the environment, especially when global warming is mentioned. I still believe climate change as we know it, is part of a nature-spurred cycle which the Earth goes through every once in a while. But let's leave the bureaucratic crap...

Tags: Battery, Laptop Computer, Computer, Engineering, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Carrots and sticks and EMRs

Carrots and sticks and EMRsThe carrots and sticks are not helpful from a Not-for-Profit standpointwhat about NP's that offer care? Since they dont pay taxes, they dont get any support in that sense. We know there are grants coming down the pipe for networks, but what about stand...

Tags: Strategic planning, Personal finance, HL7, EMR, Carrots

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didn

Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didnMust Have Been A Windows NetworkTypical boot camp MCSE mentality.RE: Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didnThey must implement a HR Policy that require that every employee or contractor must not have root access to their...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Strategy, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae IT, Fannie Mae IT contractor, information technology, malware

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

New Insider Threat Emerges in the New Economy

Information security experts are bracing for the law of unintended consequences to swing into action in 2009 as layoffs, downsizing and low morale bring the worst out of trusted insiders looking to profit off of proprietary intellectual property, customer contact lists, trade secrets and any other sensitive information. Many employees...

Tags: Information Security, Insider Threat, Lumension Security Inc., Information Security Expert, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2009-01-13

Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability

Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerabilityEconomic tremors and MSWith Economic tremors abounding us right now, I do not see how a Company could withstand the money lost from an exploit like this plus all of the time spent by staff and lost productivity due to insecure software. I do not see...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., worm

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?

Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP?Im guessingthat you did not post exact times so as to get around the no-benchmarks part of the EULA? Unfortunately how much better one is compared to the other matters. Is it insignificantly faster? a small...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7 beta 1 performance, Windows 7 Beta 1, WINDOWS 7 BETA, operating system, Microsoft Windows, performance

Discussion threads 2009-01-01