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- Grant Thornton Achieves 99.7% Accuracy Tracking Mobile IT Assets
- Grant Thornton LLP is one of America's largest accounting firms. This case study explains how the company simplified its IT asset tracking process to minimize loss rates during business expansion. Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to standardize its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of...
- Tags: Absolute Software, Mobile, Information Technology, Grant Thornton LLP, Roi/Tco, Strategic Planning, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Accounting Firm Improves Productivity, Collaboration With Digital Note-Taking Program
- Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting organizations. It provides personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients. In May 2005, Grant Thornton LLP piloted the Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 note-taking program to capture client...
- Tags: Accounting, Collaboration, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Information, Grant Thornton LLP, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Microsoft Office, Finance, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2005-10-01
- How Avaya IP Telephony Solutions Are Helping Grant Thornton LLP Deliver Uncompromising Client Support
- Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the seven global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. The company wanted to increase competitive advantage and client satisfaction by empowering a large, mobile professional services organization with the tools needed to deliver highly responsive and...
- Tags: Mobile, Professional Services, Avaya Inc., Workforce, Grant Thornton LLP, Advertising & Promotion, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources
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- Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
- Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. NEW YORK--Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. ...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?
- When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...
- Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects
- Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...
- Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- In America money is life
- In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...
- Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move along
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move alongThe fact that Nvidia is not telling us...the whole story tells us the whole story. If it wasn't "that bad", they wouldn't be afraid to come forward with all the facts. This is typical behavior for a corporation, if the news is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, store owner, NVidia Corp., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- David Litchfield on details of one of the critical vulnerabilities from the latest Oracle patch
- More details coming out on the Oracle patches that were released last week, see Ryan Naraine's write up here. David Litchfield, noted security researcher from NGSSoftware, released details of one of the vulnerabilities on the Full-Disclosure email list today, and the details are staggering. The flaw allows potential unauthenticated remote...
- Tags: Oracle Application Server, Oracle Corp., Database Server, Critical Vulnerability, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Enterprise Software, Security, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Worldwide iPhone 3G rate plans compared
- Worldwide iPhone 3G rate plans comparedyou can also add the data to an existing voice plan nt.ntRogers Canada has backpeddledWell, kind of. [url=http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/09/tech-iphone.html] Rogers offers limited time reduction in rates. [/url]Until Aug. 31, Rogers will grant you the privilege of signing a 3 year contract for $30/month which gives you...
- Tags: Cellular phones, 3G, Apple iPhone, Rogers, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch, TELUS Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Live Webcast: CIO Strategies for Retention and Deletion of Email and Electronic Information
- Over the past two years, major changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP and the increase in state and federal compliance regulations have created new challenges for companies as they struggle to manage email retention and deletion policies. To successfully maintain compliance and protect their...
- Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Compliance, MessageOne, E-mail, Online Communications
- Webcasts 2008-07-10
- Drivers caught red-handed holding phone
- Drivers caught red-handed holding phoneHasn't the police got better things to do?People are being robbed, murdered, tortured, but never mind that, first we must punish these "really" dangerous and evil criminals, the scary mobile phone users! Where has common sense gone? I think I remember seeing it just a few...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, holding phone, red-handed holding phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?Teachers with laptops - maybeI know teachers who have been given laptops purchased with taxpayer dollars and the machine has ended up becoming an additional computer for use by their family. I can see it if courses require it. I can see it...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Why your text messages are not private
- Why your text messages are not privatesolutionAll new text messaging clients should just use 128 bit encryption by default. Then there would be no legal battles to fight from either side.If text messaging application providers would as a standard use 128 bit encryption for login/password validation and for the...
- Tags: E-mail, Network technology, Google Inc., licence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Tech giants aim to cut patent trolls off at the pass
- Verizon, Google, Cisco, Ericsson and HP are joining a group designed to buy up intellectual property before other parties acquire it to launch lawsuits. The Wall Street Journal is reporting this group of tech giants--dubbed Allied Security Trust--is designed to thwart patent trolls and prevent stand-offs like...
- Tags: Patent Troll, Allied Security Trust Effort, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
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