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Weeks after releasing its Flex 3 development tools , Adobe has released a test version of its integrated run-time environment for rich Internet applications , according to InformationWeek . With t... More >
In the wake of the subprime lending scandal and the Countrywide investigation -- not to mention Monday's announcement of the upcoming resignation of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alp... More >
As complexities of the subprime lending scandal come to light, observers from every side are calling for regulation of the mortgage industry . Some say extending Sarbanes-Oxley will do the trick... More >
Red Hat just released financial results for its fiscal 2008, which ended on February 29. For the first time, the company exceeded $500 million in revenue, and CEO Jim Whitehurst says Red Hat is now... More >
Not only has Sarbanes-Oxley changed the composition of public company boards of directors , it has also added to the responsibilities given to board members. And some of those responsibilities are... More >
The economic downturn could be good for open source, according to Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth. And Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says the fact that foreign companies don't want to pay a U.S. "IP ta... More >
InfoWorld blogger Randall Kennedy has " the six month *nix itch ," he says. It's been six months since he played with a Linux or UNIX distribution, and he's ready to try again. In this post, he disc... More >
As I was scrolling through Wednesday's tech news, this headline from pressdispensary.co.uk caught my eye, " Money-Launderer Clears Up Compliance for Professionals ." Intrigued, I clicked through, t... More >
At EclipseCon last week, developers weren't sure how to take the keynote from Microsoft's Linux and open source strategy director, Sam Ramji. From initial reports, the awkward "get to know you" dan... More >
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance delays for small business are a popular discussion topic among small business lobbyists. They won another victory early this year when the Securities and Exchange Commissi... More >
In the mobile phone realm, there are too many operating systems . That's what Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin seems to think, anyway. bMighty.com blogger Paul Korzeniowski notes that although Sarin'... More >
InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference begins Tuesday in San Francisco. To get attendees ready (and, I presume, to give those who aren't attending a taste of what they'll miss), InfoWorld se... More >
Chances are, if you work for a private company, you don't think about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 very often. It applies to publicly traded companies, right? Well, yes -- the provisions that evoke... More >
Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, is on its way, according to a newsvine.com post. And though the stable version won't be ready until April, the beta release is now available on the Ubuntu Web site. Impr... More >
Today I thought we'd continue in the audit committee vein. In a piece at Director of Finance Online , KPMG corporate governance director Tim Copnell lists seven items that should be on audit comm... More >
Much has been made lately of Microsoft collaborating with Eclipse developers. It began with vague references that neither organization would substantiate. This week, the plans were revealed at Ecli... More >
Last week Eric Griffith presented a comparison of the four most commonly used desktop operating systems: Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS 10.5.1 (or Leopard). The Mac offering come... More >
Eighty-two percent of audit committee member respondents to a Center for Audit Quality say that audit quality has improved in recent years, and most say changes brought about by the Sarbanes-Oxley Ac... More >
Bruce Perens wants back into the circle of influence, it seems. The man credited with coining the term "open source" and writing The Open Source Definition says he doesn't like the increasin... More >
In Tuesday's bMighty Blog post on security , Paul Korzeniowski highlights a recent product release from LogLogic as evidence that the emphasis on and tools for compliance are filtering from the la... More >
In September 2007, the Software Freedom Law Center filed the first U.S. lawsuit to enforce the terms of the GNU General Public License. It sued Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of BusyBox creators for ... More >
Former U.S. legislators Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley were in Mumbai, India, over the weekend. Huliq reports the co-sponsors of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act participated in a corporate governance fo... More >
The Software Freedom Law Center is not the first open source advocate to be skeptical of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise, but it may be one of the most prominent. Last week, SFLC published ... More >
What's next for Apple on the operating system front? Any ideas? The company isn't close to the next-generation OS yet, says AppleMatters' Hadley Stern, but he has a wish list when that day come... More >
At JBoss World last month, Red Hat announced a plan to "accelerate" its middleware business in an effort to see JBoss holding half of the enterprise middleware market by 2015. One of the first ste... More >
TechNet presented its 2008 innovation agenda to government officials during its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, according to a press release . The bipartisan group of executives from ... More >
Despite the dismal opinion that many publicly traded companies have of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the story of one New York-based company proves it does have value. The New York Times report... More >
InfoWorld posted a rather lengthy interview with Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin , on Wednesday. Editor-at-Large Paul Krill covered everything from the foundation's role in the life... More >
Savant Protection has successfully ported its intrusion prevention system to the Android mobile OS platform , according to Business Wire . The Nashua, N.H.-based company says its solution is "the p... More >
One look at the tech press in recent months tells you that virtualization is the topic (and the technology) du jour. It's changing the way corporate IT works, and it's demonstrating ROI to boot. Be... More >
So what does Microsoft really mean when it pledges more openness ? This month's issue of Redmond Developer News features a discussion with Top Coder's general counsel, Iran Heffen, for a legal pe... More >
In his "Tech Tuesday" column at FoxNews.com , Eric Griffith points out the good, the bad and the ugly of the four dominant operating systems in today's market -- with the average user in mind. He ... More >
Citing The New York Times, RTTNews reports the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are conducting a joint investigation of Countrywide Financial Corp. A com... More >
In February we learned that investors were bailing SCO Group out of bankruptcy to take the company private. Tuesday, IT Jungle 's Timothy Prickett Morgan reported that the company has submitted i... More >
Wal-Mart won't restock the Everex gPC on store shelves, according to an Associated Press story in the Seattle-Post Intelligencer . The discount retailer began selling the $200 Linux-based ... More >
When you choose to open source code, how do you determine which license under which to release it? What do you consider? Nearly two years ago, Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simo... More >
Sifting through my e-mail last week, I came across a product announcement from GRC software provider Axentis . Most often I send such things straight to the recycle bin, but about halfway through th... More >
I never imagined featuring a Microsoft operating system in this blog as an "alternative OS." However, the company's research arm recently released an academic, proof-of-concept OS on Codeplex. Singul... More >
New research from Compliance Week suggests the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Accounting Standard 5 isn't doing what regulators hoped it would. BusinessWire reports: In tot... More >
Red Hat is adding intellectual property and free software specialists to its legal team. InformationWeek reports former Software Freedom Law Center attorney Richard Fontana and IP attorney Robe... More >
With OpenAIM 2.0 , released Wednesday, AOL has corrected the documentation problems in the first version so that developers don't have to reverse engineer the Open System for CommunicAtion in Realti... More >
The European Union may be inching closer to purchasing open source software for its offices, according to a Bloomberg piece in the International Herald Tribune . A spokesperson for the EU's... More >
In January, compliance consultancy Lord & Benoit released a report on the real cost of Sarbanes-Oxley for small public companies. As Compliance Home points out, the cost study is not the only... More >
In the nearly six years since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted, it would seem that most large public companies have had plenty of time to wrap their heads and their arms around a comprehensive approach t... More >
Drupal , the open source Web publishing and content management software, will soon have a commercial distribution. bizjournals reports that Acquia, a 12-employee company based in Andover, Mass., w... More >
LewRockwell.com reports that yet another bank in the Midwest has opted to delist from the stock exchange in order to cut costs. Like many companies that have delisted in the past, the bank blames... More >
Sun Microsystems' purchase of MySQL , the release of Adobe's AIR, and open source moves by larger, established companies are driving an increase in application developer salaries, according to a r... More >
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