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- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.SurprisingI am a little surprised they would even bother to do this. But not very surprised.I have never been tempted to 'taunt' them in the first place. What I have been tempted to do is send them false information, preferably from an automated source,...
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Cyberthreats, Middleware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, new credit, ActiveX, virus
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands
- X-Box and Cell Phone Nation: Election Rests In Digital HandsGood for MSI read about this last Thursday on cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10021981-52.html And I'll share the same opionion. I think it would be awesome if they could do electronic voting on xbox live.Considering the text message fiascoThe use of high-tech tools remains...
- Tags: Game players, Operational accounting, cell phone, phone, X-Box, X-Box Voting, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?Surely.If the RIAA is able to prosecute people for allegedly 'making available' a few music files then why are these 'cyber criminals' not pursued so vigorously? After all your average file sharer is not making any money out of it. ...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Cyberthreats, Spam, Typosquatting, U.S, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alertsVISA, banks to test real-time fraud alertsSt.George Bank in Australia (stgeorge.com.au)has been offering this service for some 4 years now. Customers set their own trigger points and receive an SMS and/or email. SMS messages are delievered before cash is delivered from an...
- Tags: Financial services, SMS Message, Real-Time Alerts, real-time fraud alert, VISA bank, Visa Inc., bank, fraud alert
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Visa, banks to test real-time fraud alerts
- Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with with eight North American banks to deliver fraud alerts in real-time via SMS text messages and e-mails to cell phones. The pilot program will allow about 2,000 Visa cardholders to set thresholds that will trigger an immediate transaction alert...
- Tags: Bank, Visa Inc., Transaction, Cardholder, Financial Services, Telecom & Utilities, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- SaaS mashups shape up
- SaaS mashups shape upI see little added valueCombining PayPal and Amazon.com on a Salesforce platform does what for me again?If I am an Amazon.com customer I can click on the shopping cart and use my account information to make my purchases. So having a PayPal link is of limited value...
- Tags: Data centers, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Outsourcing, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- The opportunities in search
- The opportunities in searchEr, Murph, we already talked about this.MSR Lincoln is [i]"Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it.Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments...
- Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles abound
- Sourcing offshore: Cultural hurdles aboundSourcing Offshore...I will say up front that I represent a publisher who specializes in international business, cultural, trade and logistics reference titles. We do a fair amount of outsourcing business overseas, with in-house editors to assure consistency. We found that most companies overseas were very...
- Tags: Supply chain, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Sourcing Offshore, sourcing, logistics
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
- With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...
- Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Apple's former counsel settles with SEC
- Apple's former counsel settles with SECAnother classic example of the broken justice system that favors the rich..Apple executives were actively involved in theft and fraud any they are not going to prison. Who says crime does not pay? What is the lesson learned for other white collar criminals? Commit...
- Tags: Litigation, Investment, Heinen, SEC, justice system, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Help Desk Outsourcing Metrics (zip)
- This e-book explains you about the challenges in improving performance in a help desk call center. It also explains you about the key metrics that can help you optimize the performance of help desk. Detailed explanation of the metrics and how to track them. This version is the first release...
- Tags: Help Desk Outsourcing, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit
- Facebook - along with Beacon partners Blockbuster, Fandango, Overstock and others - has been slapped with a class action lawsuit over the missteps that were taken when the Beacon program was launched last year. Techmeme And now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg's own public apology - an admirable fess-up for the...
- Tags: Class Action Suit, Facebook, Class Action, Beacon, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
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