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Usually when one hears the words, "Sarbanes-Oxley," the first thought is "internal controls," or "audits." That's an understandable connection, given that section 404 is the most well-known part of... More >
InformationWeek reported Friday that Linux will be on more PCs next year than Windows will. Pointing to a blog post by Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, writer Antone Gonsalves not... More >
There were rumblings regarding Motorola's Android phone about a week and a half ago . Reports then indicated that we probably won't see an Android phone from the handset maker until later next year,... More >
Tuesday, IT Business Edge's Kachina Dunn wrote about Microsoft's cloud platform, Windows Azure . In introducing the Web-based platform, Ray Ozzie gave kudos to competitors like Amazon, Salesforce an... More >
I think most of us are as tired of campaign commmercials as we are of stories about how horrible our economy seems to be. So a story about election technology might not be what you want to see toda... More >
The role of the chief financial officer has changed in the last decade, largely due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other stiff regulatory schemes with which companies must comply. And the effect is multiplied... More >
eWEEK 's Darryl K. Taft is wondering just what Symbian hopes to gain by giving up at least $300 million a year in software royalties and taking the mobile phone operating system open source. Speaki... More >
The latest iteration of the Ubuntu Linux distribution for desktops and servers will be available for download Thursday, Oct. 30, according to an IDG story in the New York Times . Ubuntu 8... More >
When the Securities and Exchange Commission approved yet another Sarbanes-Oxley compliance deadline delay for small businesses, officials said they would undertake to study the impact of the law ... More >
Just like the economic crisis and the federal bailout package produce interesting twists for public company auditors , they also present new review requirements for the country's larger banks. ... More >
New research from the Linux Foundation reveals that it would cost proprietary software shops more than $10 billion in today's dollars to build their own Linux distribution from scratch. IT Business E... More >
Auditing during a recession could present several issues, according to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which called together its standing advisory group Wednesday to discuss them. The ... More >
It's all mobile phones all the time in the tech press these days, what with T-Mobile's G1 debuting , Google opening the Android source code, Symbian cozying up to open source developers and RIM ... More >
Even though the G1 smart phones didn't officially debut for public consumption until Wednesday morning, T-Mobile sold its first G1s Tuesday night at a pre-launch event in San Francisco. ChannelW... More >
Risk assessment is key to a quality audit, according to a Reuters article published in Guardian Unlimited . And in an effort to turn more auditors toward the risk-based internal controls audits th... More >
Last week, I wrote about open source as a software business model . The general consensus is that pure open source doesn't happen much in the software business anymore. Companies have found that the... More >
The Motorola Android phone was all over the tech press Monday. (We were no exception .) The struggling handset maker's social smart phone won't make an appearance until later next year, but the comp... More >
Google's user privacy policies have caused individuals and businesses alike to focus on exactly what their search queries reveal about them, as well as how to protect that privacy . Last week I ha... More >
Just shy of two years ago, I wrote about mixed source shops as a trend, but a trend that we knew would quickly become a permanent fixture in the software industry. As unpopular as it was at the tim... More >
First, it was T-Mobile's G1 . Next up, it's Motorola, according to BusinessWeek . The company is preparing its own Android-based smartphone , the story says. Motorola's version will boast an iPhon... More >
Early this week, The 451 Group released its latest open source report, "Open Source Is Not a Business Model." In his blog, 451 analyst Matthew Aslett says of the findings : The line between propri... More >
More than once since the financial markets crisis has dominated the news, observers have suggested Congress should take care not to rush additional regulation so that we don't end up with another S... More >
Interesting news from Computerworld Tuesday... Each seat in Qantas' new Airbus A380 jets will feature entertainment systems running on Linux . (When I saw "Linux" and "Qantas" in the same headline... More >
The first beta version of Firefox 3.1 is here, but according to The Register 's John Leyden, some users are disappointed . The TraceMonkey JavaScript engine , a highly-anticipated feature designed... More >
OpenOffice.org users clamoring for the latest version of the open source office productivity software crashed the project's Web site briefly on Monday. According to ITworld.com , community represe... More >
Monday, President Bush signed the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007 , or PRO-IP Act, into law. The legislation, vigorously supported by the Motion... More >
In Monday's Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business School management professor Bill George asked a question I haven't heard -- or seen -- anyone else ask yet in this economic crisis: Where were the... More >
No longer is Sourceforge.net simply a repository of open source projects and code. Monday, the development community launched what it's calling "Hosted Apps." The first set of applications S... More >
We've written for months about the continuing trend away from a "fire drill approach" to compliance and toward an enterprise-wide approach that integrates governance and risk with compliance. ... More >
Thursday CNET News blogger Matt Asay pointed out that the U.S. Department of Defense is on the verge of issuing guidelines for the adoption of open source software within the agency . According to... More >
Record retention and e-discovery requirements are tough no matter where you are, but they become extremely complicated if you're a company that does business internationally . Recently, Mar... More >
At its annual analyst day in New York, leading Linux distributor Red Hat told the audience that it was shifting its focus -- from large, Wall Street-type firms to the small and medium-sized busine... More >
When Nokia bought out Symbian and then took the mobile operating system open source a few months ago , many were surprised . Some even suggested the move was ill timed . When the company made the ... More >
Obviously, the financial sector has been most quickly and most visibly affected by the economic downturn. Lehman Brothers filed bankruptcy . Banks are consolidating . The government has rescued mo... More >
Earlier this year, Windows XP users and PC makers were in a frenzy because Microsoft's Windows XP operating system was coming to the end of its shelf life . Users and editors at InfoWorld even lau... More >
New developments on the Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower front : Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided that claims brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower provis... More >
In a tough economy, it's no surprise to see more stories about CIOs who want to do more with less and those who are looking to open source to do that. After all, it is " priced right " as Linux Fou... More >
Silicon Alley Insider says the smart phone wars of Christmas shopping season 2008 are on. The only real players, according to writer Dan Frommer, are Apple, with its iPhone 3G, and Research in Mot... More >
For the second year in a row, a survey of the 100 largest public companies in the United States found that most of them are responding to shareholder pressure for improved corporate governance and a ... More >
When the Open Source Census launched in April , many observers thought it got off to a pretty slow start. In the first day, fewer than 100 machines were scanned for open source. Organizers, howev... More >
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host and author Dave Ramsey says Sarbanes-Oxley is partially to blame for the mess the economy is in now . What's more, he says temporarily changing one of the ... More >
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