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June 30, 2009

Swedish Gaming Company Buys Pirate Bay

In April, a Swedish judge convicted the founders of the Pirate Bay file sharing site of anti-piracy violations. They were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $3.6 million in fines for ru... More >

June 29, 2009

For Now, IBM Can't Stop Former M&A Chief from Going to Work for Dell

Six months ago, IBM and Apple settled a dispute arising from Apple's hiring of IBM's blade development VP, Mark Papermaster , to head iPhone and iPod engineering. IBM had sued Apple, arguing that Pa... More >

June 26, 2009

PCAOB Votes to Delay 2009 International Inspections for up to Three Years

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is giving itself an extension on its own deadline. Compliance Week blogger Tammy Whitehouse says the regulator voted to delay its 2009 international ... More >

Obama Administration's Focus on IT, Regulation Good for Business

InformationWeek blogger Michael Hickins made a good point Wednesday when he said: If all you've heard is business complain that increased taxes and government regulation is driving investment and ... More >

June 25, 2009

Did Apple's Vague Disclosure of Jobs' Health Violate Securities Laws?

Six months ago, Steve Jobs took a medical leave of absence from his responsibilities at Apple because what company officials first called a "hormone imbalance" was more "complex" than they had thou... More >

June 23, 2009

XBRL U.S. Readies for Annual Conference

As the public companies begin to comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission's mandate to use eXtensible Business Reporting Language tagging in their financial filings, XBRL U.S. is preparin... More >

June 22, 2009

Fed Has Expertise to Oversee Big Finance, President Says

Since the bottom fell out of the economy, pundits and politicians alike have speculated about what an overhaul of the financial regulatory system will look like. Many think the Federal Reserve will ... More >

June 19, 2009

Facebook's Role in the Privacy Debate

Two stories from The Register caught my eye Friday, largely because they both addressed Facebook and privacy issues. First, it was this gem of a headline, " U.S. city demands FaceSpaceGooHoo lo... More >

XBRL on SEC's Back Burner, but Not out of Mind

Writing for Data Interactive early this month, Matt Kelly said eXtensible Business Reporting Language is no longer among the Securities and Exchange Commission's top priorities . Understandably, C... More >

June 18, 2009

Environment, Financial Services High on Regulatory Compliance Lists

SearchCompliance.com 's Alexander Howard did a nice roundup this week of the compliance trends we're in for in the next six months. Not surprisingly, increased regulation and enforcement is right a... More >

June 16, 2009

GE Healthcare Offers Stimulus Simplicity for EMR Implementation

Electronic medical records have been a priority of President Obama's since his campaign days, if not before. But they're coming to the forefront again now that he is renewing his focus on health ca... More >

June 11, 2009

Federal IT Oversight Bill in the Pipeline

If Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) has his way, federal agencies undertaking IT projects will have a lot of explaining to do if they fail.   According to ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman , Senate B... More >

June 9, 2009

SEC on Sarbox, SMBs and Pay Disclosure Proposals

At Compliance Week 's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Securities and Exchange Commissioner Luis Aguilar told attendees that smaller companies should be familiarizing themselves with Sarbanes... More >

June 8, 2009

Data Privacy Issues Still Plague E-Health Record Efforts

How to keep sensitive patient data private while meeting the federal e-health records mandate was an issue central to last week's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. And though the question ha... More >

June 5, 2009

Financial Intermediaries Partner to Broaden Use of XBRL in Business

First the Securities and Exchange Commission got excited about eXtensible Business Reporting Language and how the XML-based data tags would make public company financial filings more accessible to ... More >

June 4, 2009

U.S. CTO Chopra Aims to Create Jobs, Business Around Technology

I can't get away from government officials today.   Earlier I read  -- and wrote -- about the yet-to-be-appointed White House cyber security czar . Now I see that New York Times writer Saul ... More >

Obama Administration Establishes National Cyber Security Posts

Last month, the White House released the results of its 60-day cyber security review , conducted by acting cyber security chief Melissa Hathaway. At the same time, the administration announced the c... More >

June 2, 2009

Financial Regulatory Reform Slow to Take Shape

When observers and experts first began throwing around the "recession" word, everyone agreed that regulatory reform would be necessary -- especially in the financial sector. Speculation began that a ... More >