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As late as last Saturday, May 24, Half Life Source reported that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company would consider keeping Windows XP on the shelves longer than the expected June 30 end d... More >
When Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted in 2002, it woke people up to the importance of document retention and management programs. In the years since then, the number of regulatory requirements have only ... More >
Six Minnesota businesses will share $177,108 in grant money to train employees to use open source software , bizjournals reported on Thursday. More than 100 software engineers, analysts and prog... More >
Two Web-based operating systems were slated to be demonstrated at the D6 conference: G.ho.st and Glide. We first covered G.ho.st a little more than a year ago , and I interviewed CEO Zvi S... More >
A new study of Fortune 1000 companies in the U.S. reveals that many executives don't know enough about what enterprise risk management (ERM) means to adequately evaluate the scope of the risks thei... More >
Speaking at a conference in New York on Wednesday, Microsoft's chief architect, Ray Ozzie, said open source is a bigger threat to the software juggernaut than Google is. He says open source develop... More >
Just when you thought we'd seen the last of Florida-based Psystar, the company tempting fate by continuing to sell Leopard -based Mac knock-offs, it's back in the news again. InformationWee... More >
It's been more than a month since a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument in the Free Enterprise Fund's appeal of its case challen... More >
Google often gets a bad rap when it comes to " open source citizenship " because many don't think the company gives back as much open source code as it uses. And its lack of support for the Affero G... More >
Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, is a viable alternative to Windows for system builders willing to try something new, says Channel Insider's Frank Ohlhorst. Among the Linux distribution's strong ... More >
UK-based IT staffing firm Ifftner Solutions says requirements arising from Sarbanes-Oxley and the European Union's data retention law are creating an increasing demand for data storage specialists ... More >
TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington says Facebook is on the verge of making its Facebook Platform an open source project . Arrington expects it to model the Google-backed Open Social , which mean... More >
In an article published May 16 , Financial News Online writer Mark Cobley says, "Investment advisers speaking at a corporate governance in Paris yesterday gave a positive verdict to the U.S. Sarba... More >
OpenForum Europe is not happy with the United Kingdom -- particularly public organizations in the UK, according to ZDNet UK blogger Peter Judge. Leaders in those organizations have made poor busi... More >
Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower David Welch is back in the news. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard Welch's appeal , according to the Associated Press . After an administr... More >
Last year, Open Source Initiative president Michael Tiemann took a stand . Too many companies were playing fast and loose with the "open source" label, he said. As an example, he pointed to SugarCRM... More >
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Novell's SuSE Appliance program and the "just enough" operating system around which it is centered. It seems not everyone is happy about that appliance program.... More >
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke focused on the need for increased regulation and better risk management when he spoke at the Conference on Bank Structure and Competition in Chicago recently. ... More >
ZDNet UK reports Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation made a joint announcement Thursday that they will indeed build XO Laptops featuring the Windows XP operating system. Rumors about... More >
New research from the IT Policy Compliance Group reveals our instincts were right all along: Doing the right thing is better for business. According to a press release published at CNNMoney.com ... More >
Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange announced it is now running mission-critical systems on Red Hat Linux. InformationWeek reports: NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Li... More >
Well, as much as people like Jeremy Roche don't want to see it happen, they may not have a choice. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved one step closer to requiring public co... More >
For awhile there, everything I wrote about mobile Linux mentioned the Android platform . It was a new approach , and Google is involved, so of course it was going to be big news . The LiMo Founda... More >
When the Free Software Foundation released the Affero General Public License v3 last November, it was heralded as the answer to the GPL's ASP loophole. Turns out it isn't the only answer, but it's ... More >
As BBC News and other Web sites reported Monday, Microsoft is meeting ultra-low-cost PC (ULPC) makers where they are -- with an ultra-low-cost version of its Windows XP operating system. Appare... More >
U.S. data center decision-makers are planning expansions in the next year despite the economic slow down, according to new data from Digital Realty Trust. Tech Central.ie reports that 86 p... More >
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants says more than 64,000 students graduated with accounting degrees in 2006-2007. As such, it marks the highest number of accounting degrees in m... More >
For more than five years now, pundits, politicians and businesses have argued that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 should be pared back . Its restrictions are too rigorous and compliance is too costl... More >
Monday, I mentioned Google had removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux open source project from its Google Code pages. The company did so in response to a take down notice issued under the Digital Millenium... More >
" Open source is more secure ." How many times have we said or heard that? Too many to count, really. But PCWorld.com 's Neil McAllister points something out in an article published in The Washingt... More >
Months after former SEC Commissioner Annette Nazareth left her post, one of her colleagues is making the same move. CFO.com reports Commissioner Paul Atkins will step down when his term expires... More >
Open source isn't dead, says the silicon.com columnist known as The Naked CIO, it's just limited to those niche areas in which it has reached maturity, such as the Web and network security. The beg... More >
In 2005, Sun Microsystems formed the OpenSolaris open source project to build a development community around its Solaris operating system. Monday, the company announced that a beta version of the ... More >
Surveys conducted at this year's Health Information Management and Systems Society conference indicate respondents are increasingly concerned about security and compliance issues now that the governm... More >
In response to a formal take down notice issued by CoreCodec on April 30 under the Digital Millineum Copyright Act , Google has removed the CoreAVC-for-Linux project from its Google Code Web pag... More >
For the past couple of days, ZDNet bloggers Christopher Dawson and John Carroll have been discussing Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman's comments on OLPC's plans to move the XO l... More >
Unlike many compliance requirements, the PCI Data Security Standard is not a law or regulation that can be enforced by the government or in the courts. As attorney David Navetta points out in an S... More >
With its Open Screen Project , Adobe has removed licensing restrictions on its Flash technology, according to ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette. The source code is still proprietary, but the company has... More >
In a piece at B Eye Network , Bill Inmon asks the question, " Do we really need data governance? " Not surprisingly, his answer is yes. Regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II require ... More >
The biggest news out of the latest Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, according to Wired , is that several OEM vendors are committed to supporting open source drivers . Dell, Lenovo, Asus, VIA ... More >
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