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Sarbanes-Oxley Closing the Gaps: Expert Panel on Implementing COBIT

COBIT provides a framework of IT control objectives that can be implemented and monitored within an enterprise to ensure the delivery of reliable information. This webcast explains how implementation of COBIT can improve collaboration between IS/IT auditors and IT management on security, audit and control issues, define performance measurement requirements,...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Performance, Performance Measurement, COBIT, Performance Measurement Requirement, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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WFilter Enterprise 3.3.163 (Windows)

WFilter is an Internet filtering software that can help organizations to monitor and manage all Internet behaviors on their networks. WFilter intercepts, records and monitors Internet behaviors of users on a network, for the purpose of ensuring policy compliance, or measurement on job performance in an organization. You only need...

Tags: Monitor, Network, Microsoft Windows, IMFirewall Software, WFilter, Internet, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...

Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

News to know: Droid, Moffat, Android, Amazon, 3D HDTV, Net Neutrality

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Verizon unveils 30-second ad for Droid Android phone; slams iPhone Jason Perlow:DROID aims to make Apple...

Tags: Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Sam Diaz, Matthew Miller, Net Neutrality, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Energy measurement to go: Onset intros portable energy logging system

Onset, a company in Massachusetts that has sold more than 1 million data loggers since its start-up in 1981, has introduced a portable version of its technology called HOBO Measurement & Vertification System. The product comes in a rugged carrying case with magnetic feet for mounting, and...

Tags: Energy, Construction, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Gauging our future

As long as there has been digital tech, it's GIGO. Without data or faulty data, well, you get what you start with. Digital tech does not take cow manure and return tasty tomatoes. So even if your grandchildren are still powering this planet with coal...

Tags: Grid, Teridian, Manufacturing, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Onkyo HT-RC160

Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-RC160Comparing the features of competing AV receivers is already a difficult chore, but many manufacturers, such as Denon and Yamaha, invite more complexity by offering two lines of nearly identical AV receivers: a custom-install-friendly line and a more-consumer-based line. For better or worse, Onkyo has followed suit with...

Tags: Onkyo HT-RC160, receiver, Onkyo

Product reviews 2009-09-30

Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA

Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Eos Converge Wireless Amplified Receiver

After a CNET reader asked us to figure out how to get laptop audio streamed wirelessly to a receiver, we came across the Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver. While the system worked well, we were disappointed to see that the included remote control was fully functional...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, wireless, transmitter, receiver, Wireless Amplified Receiver, EoS

Product reviews 2009-09-25

Eos Converge Wireless Receiver

After a CNET reader asked us to figure out a solution to get laptop audio streamed wirelessly to a receiver, we came across the Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver. While the system worked well, we were disappointed to see that the included remote control was only...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Wireless Receiver, wireless, transmitter, receiver

Product reviews 2009-09-25

Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDD

It is still a SeageteIt is still a seagate, so it will fail very quickly.RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDAny word on the real world performance of SATA 6Gpbs vs. SAS drives?RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDHow about smaller capacities? I...

Tags: Yes Vista, Seagate Technology LLC, SATA 6Gbps HDD, first SATA 6Gbps HDD, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Eos Converge Wireless Transmitter

After a CNET reader asked us to figure out a solution to get laptop audio streamed wirelessly to a receiver, we came across the Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver. While the system worked well, we were disappointed to see that the included remote control was only...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, transmitter, Wireless transmitter, wireless, Wireless Receiver

Product reviews 2009-09-21

How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy

Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...

Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Samsung XL2370

The 23-inch Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 is thin, sleek, and light. It's as if Samsung's own P2370 had a thinner, prettier sister. In addition, the XL also has an LED backlight that lets it perform better in movies and games. The monitor won't be available in the U.S. until October 12,...

Tags: Monitors & displays, neck, bezel, P2370, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung XL2370, monitor

Product reviews 2009-09-03

HDDlife for Notebooks 3.1.167 (Windows)

HDDlife Notebook Edition monitors hard drive health and performance. It has been developed with the peculiarities of portable computers taken into account. Unique technologies make data information on the state of the hard drive highly precise and available at any moment. The JustNow? instant measurement technology reflects the state of...

Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, Microsoft Windows, BinarySense, Instant Measurement Technology, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-08-20

Business Advisory Services Finance Improvement

Industry challenges have never been greater for chief financial officers CFOs. The current market conditions and the pace of regulatory change have all pushed CFOs into a more active role. Today, the role of the CFO has evolved beyond being the director of a support function to being a true...

Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Performance, CFO, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Performance Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-08-14

The disruptive nature of cloud computing

Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

How much do stores jack up ambient lighting to sell you HDTVs?

Along with selling unknowing consumers $80 HDMI cables that they could buy online for a few bucks, HDTV retailers other longtime scam is to boost the brightness in their stores including on the sets themselves to entice buyers. Why? In part because bright screens can mask poor black-level performance...

Tags: HDTV, Store, Retail, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Performance Management, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-09

RiskyProject Professional 3.2 (Windows)

RiskyProject is advanced project management software with integrated risk analysis. Project managers can use RiskyProject for planning, scheduling, quantitative risk analysis, and performance measurement of projects with multiple risks and uncertainties. RiskyProject allows managers to improve their ability to predict the course of projects and determine how risks and uncertainties...

Tags: Risk Analysis, Microsoft Windows, RiskyProject, Strategy, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-08-04

Garmin Nuvi 760

Editors' note: The following review is of the Garmin Nuvi 750. The Nuvi 760 is identical to the 750 in nearly every way, except that the 760 adds Bluetooth hands-free calling and an FM Traffic data receiver to its feature set. As a result, the 760 gets extra points in...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Garmin Nuvi series, Nuvi 760, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvi 750

Product reviews 2009-07-30