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- SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraud
- SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraudofficer and director bars, FIN 48ODB, good one. A little known accounting change called FIN 48, requires that listed companies report the amount of money set aside for questionable tax positions. The problem here is out of country investors who put pressure on...
- Tags: Taxes, Litigation, Free trade, Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Chief Operations Officer, Nortel Networks Corp., ex-Nortel officer, ex-Nortel, John Roth, SEC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
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- (Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)
- (Getting screamed at, Air Force initiation style)They should have had a conversation with grandparentslike me. I was in the AF, this is something they will endure all through training. A lot of their parents were not in the service, so many will not really have any idea of why...
- Tags: Workforce management, Air Force, initiation
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- News to know: CES preview, Google tracks flu, NebuAd sued, Ad porn blocker
-  Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front Sean Portnoy: Third-quarter HDTV sales pace slows, plasmas show new signs of life ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video, Beta, Matthew Miller, Corporate Communications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Can IT spending shift from reactive to proactive?
- Can IT spending shift from reactive to proactive?Reactive to ProactiveWell it is like this:I have been in the IT field for roughly 25 years and most companies treat the IT Infrastructure worse than the mailroom. As an experienced IT Professional, the IT is one of or the very last to...
- Tags: Strategy, Usefulness, Large Corp., information technology, IT IS, IT-spending
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election
- Mudslinging in presidential elections is as old as the American political system. The Internet has increased both the rate as well as the quantity of attack strains. The low cost and accessibility of Internet technology has placed the power to disrupt a presidential campaign in the hands of...
- Tags: Presidential Election, Campaign, Internet, Phishing, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Proposed NAFTA-like agreement would turn border guards into copyright cops
- This is so unbelievable, so repugnant to basic principles of privacy and prohibitions against illegal search and seizure that I can only let the news speak for itself. But to put it in context, here is Wikipedia's entry on Canada's version of the Fourth Amendment: ...
- Tags: Security, Copyright Law, Canada, Agreement, NAFTA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Ex-i-mate CTO leads Velocity Mobile into the Windows Mobile market with two powerful devices
- I expected to hear about Windows Mobile 6.1 and some new device announcements out of CTIA this week, but was caught off guard when a new Windows Mobile company appeared and announced a couple of devices that look quite compelling. Velocity Mobile announced that they were designing and selling new...
- Tags: Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Velocity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0
- Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- MS Outlook flaw adds new twist to URI handling saga
- For months, Microsoft has taken a firm hands-off approach to the URI protocol handling vulnerability saga, shrugging off suggestions that there's a flaw in Windows that needs to be fixed. Now comes word that two Microsoft products -- Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2000 -- have joined...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, MS Outlook Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Web Browsers, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Internet, Enterprise Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- ROI is so Business 1.0: not
- As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...
- Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Google clients 'frustrated' by unprofitable AdWords buys
- Buyers of Google AdWords are “becoming increasingly frustrated,” so says the Googler that started the first Google inside sales team in 2003, Adam Goldberg. Goldberg helped build the Google inside sales team to a $500 million dollar a year organization by touting the marketing ROI of spends on AdWords’...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Profits, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Brands, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites
- Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sitesExcluding Colleges and LibrarysThat is rediculous, those are some of the biggest holes in security. Some campuses even allow anyone to connect to the network and go on the internet without authenticating, this is just like a go ahead to abuse the system.I...
- Tags: Homeland security, Vertical industries, INTERNET, U.S. Department of Justice, government, child pornography, terrorism, pic
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- $6 billion MySpace: Will this Levinsohn cash in?
- Ross Levinsohn is no longer a fan of MySpace; His ex-boss, however, continues to sing its very high praises, to the tune of $6 billion. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corp., touted a $6 billion MySpace “flip” price tag to shareholders in Australia earlier in the...
- Tags: Outsourcing, MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, News Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Ross Levinsohn
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come?
- Last year, at ApacheCon, according to Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, Sun senior staff engineer Francois Orsini apparently gave a demonstration of JavaDB -- Sun's version of Apache Derby. Apache Derby is basically a full blown relational database management system RDBMS that's based on pure Java. ...
- Tags: JavaDB
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- The problem at Sun: is in the middle
- The problem at Sun: is in the middleRespectfully disagreeThe "responsibility" system is tough, and can be criticised, but other approaches are worse. Thus the captain of a ship IS responsible for mistakes made by subordinates while the captain is not on duty. Because it is the captain's job to be...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., captain
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Yahoo ups the ante with APIs
- Yahoo has announced four new APIs for its Developer Network: Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The Shopping 2.0 API is available now, while the Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write APIs will be available soon [updated - thanks Jeffrey]. While they'll be free to use for non commercial purposes, Ash...
- Tags: API, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-03-08
- Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rules
- Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rulesHmmm, what do they do with "cartoons"Date of birth, last friday???Privacy issueshttp://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/22/rottencom_our_gaping.html"In terms of the bookkeeping requirements for Adult film distributors -- each distributor has to keep records on site. That includes social security numbers, driver license scans and other personal information. So lets...
- Tags: Harassment, Social Security, Operational accounting, Bart Simpsons, Webcam girl, physical address, performer, Webcam, sex site
- Discussion threads 2005-06-24
- PeopleSoft's moves to thwart Oracle
- Declan McCullagh reports on on testimony in the Oracle/PeopleSoft spat by Kevin Parker, PeopleSoft's co-president and chief financial officer, who acknowledged that PeopleSoft went to customers with hat in hand to accelerate deals to avoid what otherwise could have been an embarrassing second quarter for the company in 2003. This...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc.
- Blog posts 2004-10-13
- Oracle's favorite acronyms: SQL, ODBC, J2EE, and FUD.
- After examining the unredacted portions of certain court documents, CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh has uncovered text that paints Oracle in a very unflattering light. The documents indicate that Oracle executives had the will and intention to leverage the company's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft as a platform for spreading FUD. FUD, otherwise known as fear, uncertainty, and doubt, is...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., FUD
- Blog posts 2004-10-06
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