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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered summary judgment against Thomson Reuters this week in a breach of contract lawsuit filed by FaceTime Communications in May. &nb... More >
Microsoft's open source man, Sam Ramji, told Sun Microsystems' Barton George in a podcast during the O'Reilly Open Source Conference last week that the heart of Microsoft is in the middle of its op... More >
Research from audit and compliance consultancy Protiviti adds credence to the idea that the changes the Securities and Exchange Commission made to Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and the changes the ... More >
Mobile platforms were another theme at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference last week. Attendees heard from representatives touting Intel's Moblin , the LiMo Foundation , Google's Android and even ... More >
When I first saw this Directorship piece published in BusinessWeek , I thought it was more about the FTC's identity theft Red Flag Rules , which I wrote about on Monday. Turns out it has nothing ... More >
What is it with companies building PCs that aren't Macs but will run Mac OS X? Do they really think there's a hole somewhere in Apple's end user license agreement , or do they have death wishes? &nb... More >
Let's see... Basel II , anti-money laundering requirements , Sarbanes-Oxley , Graham-Leach-Bliley . These are just a few of the regulatory schemes that financial institutions have to deal with.... More >
Earlier this year, Microsoft made waves at the Open Source Business Conference when general counsel Brad Smith spoke to attendees about software patents. Then Redmond sent Sam Ramji to EclipseCon ... More >
A report out this week from compliance technology provider Oversight Systems suggests that changes in Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) Audi... More >
Redmond Channel Partner Online reported Wednesday that IT administrators are more frequently snubbing Windows Vista than they did six months ago. Moreover, some who responded to a recent KACE-spon... More >
Software Freedom Law Center attorneys have been busy again this week. Monday, they filed a lawsuit alleging Ethernet provider Extreme Networks has violated the GNU General Public License by ... More >
More news out of OSCON this week: Sun Microsystems is offering its own twist on the LAMP stack. InfoWorld reports Sun showed off its Web Stack on Tuesday . As its name indicates, the stack i... More >
At the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Ore., this week, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth (a.k.a. the billionaire space traveler) challenged open source developers to create a desktop Linux... More >
Last month, I wrote about Nokia's decision to open source the Symbian mobile platform , and I speculated that the decision was motivated in large part by Nokia's desire to better compete with the li... More >
A new report from Forrester Research indicates that enterprise adoption of open source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL is increasing, but it's not because companies are "ripping out" their Oracle or... More >
A ruling is expected soon in the case against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Washing... More >
I had no idea the SCO-Novell court battle was still in process until two different coworkers sent me stories about the ruling from last week . Wasn't all of it resolved months ago ? Isn't that what... More >
It's almost funny how nearly every other week there's a new study on the security of open source software, or the lack thereof. A new report sponsored by Fortify Software says open source is not ... More >
More than once in the past year, I've written about the perceived need for increased oversight of the audit profession in the U.S. (Remember this post? Or this one?) Whether it's improving comm... More >
Most everyone who's anyone in the world of open source is getting ready for the O'Reilly Open Source Conference , which will be held in Portland, Ore., next week. This year marks the 10th anniversar... More >
As the concept of compliance continues to morph into the broader ideas of governance, risk and compliance (GRC), the number of all-in-one software solutions -- those systems that centralize all y... More >
When IT Business Edge's Kachina Dunn sent me this story with the comment, "Someone's mad at Apple," my thoughts went immediately to the lawsuit the company has filed against Florida startup Psy... More >
The latest on the Apple-Psystar fight I told you about Tuesday: In addition to filing a trademark infringement lawsuit against the company that was shipping the Mac OS Leopard operating system pre-... More >
European Union member states will be required to implement the remainder of the EU's version of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the coming months, according to Techworld . The Statutory Audit Directive ... More >
The story of Psystar's blatant disregard for Apple's EULA , which prohibits the installation of Apple software on any hardware other than that manufactured by Apple, went on for days. First, ... More >
An interesting note from the Free Software Foundation Monday: A new group of free software evangelists has assembled to protect the freedom of network services. An FSF press release says t... More >
gOS released a new version of its Linux operating system earlier this year. Tech Republic 's Jack Wallen says gOS Space is nearly good enough to convince him to switch from the previous gO... More >
It's been awhile since we've written about Second Life here at IT Business Edge. That's usually my colleague Ann All's domain , but since the latest news intersects with the world of open source, ... More >
Last month, I wrote about Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault and the questions such services raise about interoperability of record formats, e-health records ease of use, and the value of a ... More >
In an EE Times article published Thursday , Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics professor Olivier Sigaud calls open source "an open faucet in the desert" when it comes to artificial int... More >
Ubuntu was the first Linux operating system to make the jump to a major PC vendor in the United States when it struck a deal with Dell last year. And now the Canonical-backed Linux distribution has... More >
Remember when all the hullabaloo started over missing White House e-mails ? In the midst of federal lawsuits filed by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Securi... More >
In the midst of Carl Icahn's quest to oust Jerry Yang and the rest of the struggling search company's board of directors, Yahoo is doing what it can to further its open search strategy. Wednesday Y... More >
In case you missed it, VMware founder Diane Greene is out of a job. Or at least she was after the EMC-owned virtualization company announced her departure Monday. GigaOm blogger Om Malik predict... More >
Like many things in the compliance arena, the answer to whether the transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the U.S. is going to be difficult depends on the person of wh... More >
When news first broke about Microsoft's "Singularity," observers said it was exactly what Redmond needed to do in the wake of the Windows Vista disaster -- opt for something completely different. ... More >
Last week, Xandros acquired Linspire in what former CEO and current Linspire shareholder Kevin Carmony labeled "a secret backroom deal." Minority shareholders were informed of the sale by a ... More >
It's been a year since the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive came into force in the UK, but critics say it isn't working. According to BusinessGreen.com , severa... More >
The latest Firefox news as of Thursday centers on Web browser market share. InformationWeek reports the record number of downloads of the open source browser's third version have improved its ma... More >
Steve Jobs may have been exonerated in Apple's internal investigation of stock options backdating practices , and he has not faced criminal charges or a fine from the Securities and Exchange Commi... More >
Venture capitalists are concerned. SiliconValley.com reported Wednesday there wasn't even one venture-backed initial public offering in the previous fiscal quarter. Such a drought has not occurre... More >
In a recent post, IT Business Edge's Ann All surmised that former Google employee Sergey Solyanik probably didn't make many friends among the open source faithful when he said: I need to know that ... More >
It's so rare to see anything positive about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the media these days that when I find it, I have to share. A new study from Protiviti , a global consulting and internal audit ... More >
The latest Leopard release has arrived, if you haven't already heard. Version 10.5.4 contains mostly security updates and bug fixes. However, AppleInsider points out that this version of Leopard ... More >
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