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Last week, developer Cliff Biffle accused AsusTek of violating the GNU General Public License by failing to release all of the source code for the Eee PC . This week, AsusTek has remedied the prob... More >
We know Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs a lot. Just ask any public company that is subject to the strict corporate reporting law. But does Sarbox affect CEO pay ? New research from the University ... More >
Survey results from systems management appliance provider Kace say the complexities of migrating to Windows Vista have many companies weighing the possibility of alternative operating systems . In f... More >
New research from Compliance Week suggests that U.S. public companies, as well as foreign public companies listed in the U.S., are finally getting their arms around Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requi... More >
Though the previous government of Nigeria had committed to purchase 1 million XO laptops from One Laptop Per Child, the country's current education minister is still evaluating the need for the c... More >
AsusTek 's Linux-based Eee laptop violates the software license under which Linux is released, according to a PC Pro story out today. The laptop, which competes with One Laptop Per Child's strip... More >
In an interview with ITWire , Microsoft's general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, Bill Hilf, opened up about the recent shift in the company's attitude toward open sourc... More >
Here's an interesting twist on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: A new survey says HIPAA's patient information privacy provisions inhibit health care research. WebWire repo... More >
When the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License v3 was being written, a lot of the discussion centered around what has come to be known as the ASP loophole , through which many Web se... More >
When Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced his innovation agenda on Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus early last week, one paragraph in particular jumped out at Andrew Updeg... More >
CFO.com reported Friday a federal judge in New York dismissed a stock option backdating lawsuit against Apple . The judge ruled that the New York City Employees Retirement System and the other plai... More >
In case you missed it earlier this week, Dell has agreed to support Sun Microsystems' Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems on its servers. It's the second time in less than a month that Sun ha... More >
The Securities and Exchange Commission took a step on Thursday that will move the U.S. and the global accounting industry to a single international accounting standard. According to an Associated Pre... More >
I've already mentioned this week that Wal-Mart sold out of the sub-$200 Everex gPCs. What's more, according to a company spokesperson the Google-friendly, Linux-based PC is "one of the top performi... More >
Since retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Sarbanes-Oxley Act co-author Michael Oxley has taken to his new responsibilities as vice chair of the NASDAQ . Dallas Morning News... More >
At the first of the month, we highlighted the $200, Google-optimized PC available at Wal-mart. If you are contemplating a purchase, you might need to hurry. A note at Slashdot indicates the Linux... More >
Google is offering cash prizes for developers to build applications for its Android mobile phone OS. The prizes will range from $25,000 to $275,000, according to News.com . The Android operating sy... More >
At the same time so many other foreign companies are beating a hasty retreat out of the U.S. markets, Chinese banks appear to be prepping for a U.S. listing. Chase Cooper reports that China... More >
If you're not using open source or at least contemplating its use in your organization in the near future, "you should be fired." That's the word from Steve Douty, president of BSG On-Demand A... More >
Steve Jobs has built a more successful Linux than Linus Torvalds , according to InformationWeek writer Alexander Wolfe: Who knew that Apple's latest version of Mac OS X was knitted together from e... More >
News.com 's Matt Asay suggests that organizations of every ilk should follow the lead of the Defense Information Systems Agency. At the recent Red Hat conference, he says, a representative of the c... More >
Stiff regulatory requirements are changing the way boards of directors look. After Enron and similar scandals, corporate board members have more responsibilities , and they represent a wide variet... More >
Hyperic isn't the only open source company hoping to capitalize on Ubuntu's push for a bigger piece of the OS market, it seems. Thursday, GroundWork Open Source released GroundWork Monitor Open So... More >
The New York Times reports that leading Linux distributor Red Hat has signed on to Sun Microsystems' OpenJava Community . As an OpenJava contributor, Red Hat and its JBoss division will have acces... More >
Just like Sarbox is no longer at the top of CEO priority lists, it is also becoming less of a focus for internal auditing departments, according to a new survey from Protiviti. According to ... More >
It seems analysts aren't the only ones concerned about the bugs in Apple's Leopard operating system. Tom Karpik discovered a data loss bug in the Mac OS X10.5 Finder, and Monday he posted a detai... More >
Google announced the arrival of its newest brainchild today -- and it's not a mobile phone . Instead, it's the Open Handset Alliance. The group, consisting of 33 wireless service providers and hands... More >
It's true that Sarbanes-Oxley has made public company financial filings more reliable -- at least to some extent. But a new study from three accounting professors has found that it also seems to ma... More >
Security experts say Mac OS X Leopard leaves much to be desired , according to PCWorld.com . Though the operating system's new security features may "look good on paper," the story says, they don't... More >
Dell announced this week it would be restating revenue for 2003 to 2006 -- to the tune of a $92 million loss. Blogging Stocks writer Brian White suggests this will be the last restatement from t... More >
Linux vendor Mandriva recently beat out Microsoft on a contract to provide the software for Intel's low cost Classmate laptops in Nigeria. But according to vnunet.com , Nigerian officials reported... More >
A new compliance survey by international law firm Eversheds has revealed that Sarbanes-Oxley has been supplanted at the top of many global CEOs' priority lists. In fact, only 3 percent of those att... More >
First there were rumors of the gPhone . Now the gPC is a reality. But wait a second -- it's not made by Google; it's made for Google. The New York Times reports that the Everex gPC is avai... More >
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