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European and U.S. accounting regulators have been working toward the convergence of U.S. Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles with International Financial Reporting Standards for years, but w... More >
Mozilla is playing with the idea of a Firefox extension that would allow users to do things like insert links in e-mail messages with "a simple text command" rather than the series of mouse click... More >
In what may turn out to be a harbinger of good news for YouTube, a federal court in California held that the Veoh video sharing service is not responsible for copyrighted content posted on its site... More >
Technology is everywhere. I barely go a day without hearing someone ask, "What did we do before cell phones?" or make the comment, "I'd be lost without my PDA. My whole life is in that thing." And as... More >
The UK's advertising authority yanked an iPhone TV ad from the air for misleading consumers, Guardian Unlimited reported Wednesday. The ad "overhyped" the phone's Web browsing capabilities. The A... More >
Monday, I wrote that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the case challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The decisi... More >
Next month, President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez will present the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to six individuals and two companies, InformationWeek rep... More >
The Linux Beacon 's Timothy Prickett Morgan points out this week that IBM is working hard to move self-supporting Linux HPC customers to commercial support. Big Blue is now offering the HPCC 8 Pa... More >
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with Sarbanes-Oxley last week when it decided the issues raised in a suit filed against the Public Comp... More >
Earlier this year, a friend who is the wireless network engineer at a state university had his coat (and his iPod Touch) stolen. Because the iPod Touch has a built-in wireless connection, and because... More >
Everyone knows Microsoft's image has been suffering for awhile now -- many have referred to the software juggernaut as The Evil Empire , remember. And the lackluster performance of its Windows Vist... More >
Using a fight scene from the classic film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and references to this year's "The Dark Knight" to illustrate his point, West Coast Asset Management President Lance Hel... More >
Over in IT Business Edge's Sarbox Survival Guide blog, we've been talking on and off for awhile now about electronic health records systems. So when I found this Market Wire release, it felt ... More >
Here's a little piece of advice from Tech Crunch's Michael Arrington: If you're not a public company and you haven't registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial publi... More >
Nearly two years ago now, Microsoft and Novell raised collective open source hackles with the announcement that they had entered an interoperability agreement that included patent protection. Novel... More >
As I mentioned , last week I had the opportunity to speak with representative s from the University at Albany's Center for Technology in Government, or CTG. The center is working with the New York ... More >
More than once in my short tenure on the open source beat, I've found myself puzzled by the phrase " commercial open source ." It's odd, at best, and an oxymoron at worst. Aren't "commercial" and "op... More >
At the D conference in May, attendees got the first look at Dell's mini-notebook , the Inspiron 910. Ars Technica reported Monday that the device will come with the option to preinstall Ubuntu... More >
This piece from ZDNet blogger Paul Murphy brings to light some misconceptions that are common in IT departments. Just as Murphy points out, as much as these assumptions are oh-so-common, they are... More >
Last week, I talked about open source internships as means to make one's way into an IT job. This week, Red Hat and the Fedora Project are going even beyond the internships. Market Wire reports ... More >
Not long ago, the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany (N.Y.) announced it is working with the state CIO and Office for Technology to create an enterprise IT governance f... More >
Remember when I first wrote about model train software and open source licenses? It was almost a year ago that Mark Radcliffe voiced a warning about this case, saying the district court's decision ... More >
On Tuesday, Google and other ISPs were getting a bad rap for collecting and sharing user behavior without permission. Today, the world's largest search engine is in the news for not sharing -- or a... More >
Research from IBM Global Business Services, the Wharton School and the Economist Intelligence Unit indicates that larger companies are increasingly moving their chief financial officers into chief r... More >
Monday, I wrote about Microsoft's new interoperability lab in the Philippines. According to an Inquirer.net piece , the first company to use the lab will be D3 Systems, which develops mobile appli... More >
In case you missed the news not long ago, SourceForge.net presented its third round of Community Choice Awards -- and 10 free tattoos -- at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. Wednesday, vnunet.c... More >
Research shows that employees are more apt to report fraud or other wrongdoing in the workplace when they know that whistleblower protection exists, says Northeastern University accounting professor... More >
It's no secret that Internet service providers like Google or Comcast log user Web traffic. But apparently quite a few of them are using the information they collect about their users to deliver targ... More >
Linux.com reported last week that not all IT jobs are few and far between . One just needs to know where to look for them. The key, according to writer Amber Collins, is to intern while you're stil... More >
The next step for Microsoft toward openness apparently is an interoperability lab in the Philippines , according to GMANews.tv . The open source interoperability lab will reside at the National Com... More >
The UK Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) wants to spare businesses the cost that usually accompanies implementing new regulatory requirements, according to a vnunet.com ... More >
Commenting on IBM VP Bob Sutor's vision of what open source will be in the next decade, InformationWeek blogger Serdar Yegulalp says the day has come when the number of open source licenses shou... More >
Have you seen the new concept browser from Mozilla? Aurora, developed in collaboration with Adaptive Path, is a browser-desktop combination. ChannelWEB 's Brian Kraemer wrote a great description , ... More >
Ever the open source enthusiast, IBM has partnered with three of the biggest Linux distributors, Red Hat, Novell and Canonical, to build what it's calling the "Windows-Free desktop" by next year. Big... More >
David Welch blew the whistle on Cardinal Bankshares in 2002, after which he was fired from his postion as CFO. Now, six years later, his quest for protection under the whistleblower provisions of t... More >
We know Good OS as the maker of the gOS , which first debuted in 2007 on the Everex gPC , the low-cost Linux-based machine that sold out at Walmart and Walmart.com in a matter of days. O... More >
Awhile ago, when Microsoft was aggressively asserting its patent threats against Linux -- and also crafting a partnership agreement with Novell -- Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin desc... More >
Amid all the hype over Red Flags regulation , an important date slipped by me last week. Sarbanes-Oxley turned six. The sixth year may not be as significant as the fifth -- five being a typical mil... More >
Open source service-oriented architecture may be an option for companies that have to tighten their purse strings in the current economy, LinuxWorld.com writer Mike Kavis says. It doesn't require... More >
Android 's biggest open source competitor, the LiMo Foundation (formerly the Linux Phone Standards Forum ) added new members Monday, iTWire reports. And these new members expand the group's ecosy... More >
Not long ago, the Open Solutions Alliance conducted its most recent commercial open source trends survey. This week, I talked with OSA president Dominic Sartorio via e-mail to get his thoughts o... More >
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