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In CIO.com India this week, Bernard Golden touts the advantages of governance for your open source tools -- especially at the enterprise level. He starts with an anecdote that Sun CEO Jonat... More >
Though the buzz from U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's " Blueprint for a Modernized Finanacial Regulatory Structure " has quieted somewhat in the months since it was unveiled, it hasn't died c... More >
E-health records are quite the hot topic these days, what with Google and Microsoft actually teaming up to create privacy standards for health information online, and the push toward e-health reco... More >
A reader commenting on my May 29 post concerning whether open source or Google is a bigger threat to Microsoft set off quite a flurry of activity when he said, in part: Every time I have delved int... More >
According to a newly revised Financial Accounting Standards Board agenda, the move from U.S. Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards is certainly in ... More >
Continuing on Wednesday's train of thought ... I had an opportunity to ask Scott Webster, one of the guys at AndroidGuys.com , what he thought Nokia's purchase of and plans to open the entire Symbi... More >
Nokia's purchase Tuesday of the 52 percent of Symbian it didn't already own allows Nokia to release the entire Symbian platform under an open source license -- specifically the Eclipse license -- a... More >
Well, the Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) compliance extension the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed in February has been officially approved . The commission approved the delay last week after th... More >
For all the hype that Google's Android mobile development platform has received, pundits have also been critical that Android developers and vendors participating in the project have yet to produc... More >
British Airways delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last year . At the time, CNBC reported the company hoped the delisting would save approximately 10 million pounds, or $19.8 million per ye... More >
News of movement among the open source elite: Former Yahoo developer Jeremy Zawodny has taken a position at classifieds Web site Craigslist . Wired reports: After spending 8.5 years at Yahoo, Za... More >
There has been much buzz this week around the arrival of Firefox 3.0 : First, the record-setting download day , then the vulnerability alerts, and the new feature reviews . But both Forbes an... More >
I've said more than once here that maturing Web-based operating systems will gradually replace the operating system as we now know it. As more users migrate to tools like Google Apps , G.ho.st and ... More >
Even though both government and industry organizations have pushed for health care organizations to move to electronic records systems, doctors are still hesitant to do so, according to U.S. New... More >
When I saw a Reuters UK headline blaring " NYSE Euronext CEO urges Sarbanes-Oxley rethinking ," I must admit I rolled my eyes. Here we go again, I thought. I've read these arguments so many times I... More >
For all its talk about open standards and avoiding proprietary vendor lock-in, the European Union hasn't done much to back it up with action. Reuters reports that despite competition commissioner ... More >
Monday, along with news that Microsoft has stepped up to sponsor the Open Source Census , there were also stories speculating that IBM might consider open sourcing DB2. ZDNet UK reported: While th... More >
Following Monday's post on the transition to IFRS, I found this piece in CFO.com , which raises an interesting point. Even if the financial industry as a whole will benefit from the transition a... More >
On the heels of an open source gaffe , as well as several other moves to improve its standing in the world of open source, Microsoft has joined OpenLogic's Open Source Census as a sponsor. ... More >
Observers and practitioners in the financial and audit industries have been discussing the transition from the U.S. Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles to the International Financial Report... More >
Earlier this week, the European Commission -- or more specifically, the competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes -- called on EU agencies to use open source software and open standards as a means of ... More >
The Linux server operating system is a better power-saver than Windows Server 2008, according to Computerworld writers Tom Henderson and Rand Dvorak: Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the... More >
If e-discovery is complex when you're a U.S.-based company in litigation with another U.S.-based company, the complexity is multiplied when you're a U.S.-based company in litigation with a foreign ... More >
Colorado legislators just passed a new law that, among other things, imposes stringent reporting requirements on the state's auto and health insurers . According to a post at InjuryBoard.com , some... More >
More from the litigation front: Red Hat has settled patent litigation that has been pending against it for two years. Firestar Software sued Red Hat in 2006 shortly after the JBoss acquisiti... More >
Intellectual property lawsuits seem to be the topic du jour. Monday, the Software Freedom Law Center filed two more lawsuits on behalf of BusyBox creators to enforce the provisions of the GNU Gener... More >
The first mention of Snow Leopard here at IT Business Edge came from blogger Rob Enderle last week . Since no one had even seen the previews at that point, he couldn't say much, except that the an... More >
Just as it is important to retain and index electronic records that may be necessary for litigation, it is also important to craft e-discovery searches carefully once you're in litigation. Otherwis... More >
Tuesday, European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes gave Microsoft the cold shoulder when she encouraged governments to opt for open source and open standards instead of proprietary tech. D... More >
Sometime last week, Microsoft Codeplex users noted that a project called Sandcastle had been published to the page under the OSI-approved Microsoft Permissive License , but none of the code had been... More >
Other than acknowledging that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a mandatory XBRL filing rule for reporting companies, and then outlining the compliance deadlines for that rule, th... More >
Open source business intelligence software vendor Pentaho snagged a customer from SAP Business Objects recently when Delta Dental of Virginia agreed to use Pentaho's extract, transform, load (ETL)... More >
Accountancy Age reported Friday that Steven Harris is the newest appointee to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. He will fill the vacancy created by Kayla Gillam's departure last fall.... More >
ABI Research says in five years, more mobile phones will run on Mobile Linux than on Windows Mobile. According to a Reg Hardware piece, 23 percent of smartphones will feature Linux by 2013, putti... More >
The Wall Street Journal is calling on Microsoft to open source Windows , according to News.com 's Matt Asay. He quotes the publication as follows: Why can't Windows be proprietary, for-profit and... More >
Value-added resellers that responded to a recent Channel Insider poll chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the best server operating system, according to a press release . Poll participants ranked prod... More >
There is a growing trend toward open source in college and university IT infrastructures, according to research from Gartner. internetnews.com reports higher education institutions are turning to ... More >
Last month, I pointed to a Financial News Online piece on a conference in Paris at which many investment advisers praised Sarbanes-Oxley as giving investment advisers "powerful tools" against fra... More >
An InvestmentNews alert published Tuesday indicates that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed an eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) filing requirement for mutual funds. ... More >
Last week, he said it would happen . This week TechCrunch 's Michael Arrington points to the link where interested developers can download the new fbOpen , or Facebook Open Platform. Acco... More >
Enron brought on Sarbanes-Oxley , the increasing threat of identity theft has resulted in various and sundry data privacy laws, and a focus on environmental responsibility led to legislation like ... More >
Everything that's part of the core of Google's Android mobile operating system platform will be released under an open source license, according to ZDNet 's Ed Burnette. Everything , he says -- inc... More >
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