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More news on the Microsoft patent litigation front: InformationWeek reported Wednesday that a federal judge in Rhode Island has vacated a jury verdict that would have required Microsoft to pay $3... More >
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a report last week detailing the first full year of implementation for Auditing Standard 5, which was adopted to replace Auditing Standard 2 ... More >
As of March 2010, businesses and organizations that have access to personally identifiable information of Massachusetts residents will have to undertake "comprehensive measures to protect" that infor... More >
Along with stimulus money and health care reform, the Obama Administration is also pushing health care organizations into the digital age with incentives for adopting electronic medical records s... More >
Since last Thursday, the tech media has been abuzz with the news that microblogging service Twitter has banked $100 million more in funding. Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price joined existi... More >
The Federal Communications Commission sparked intense debate last week when it announced that it planned to expand its Internet neutrality principles and then adopt them as formal rules. Among othe... More >
Continuing on the theme of e-litigation, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently handed down a ruling that sets guidelines for investigators who are looking for such evidence. And Compliance Wee... More >
Contrary to what many have said since Mary Schapiro took the reins at the Securities and Exchange Commission last year, the U.S. will still adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards. ... More >
If the e-records nightmares I've written about in the last few days haven't quite convinced you that corporate policies and staff training surrounding electronic records management and retention ar... More >
Remember Vanish ? My boss and I, as well as a few of my attorney friends, were quite surprised that the story wasn't bigger when it first broke. Technology that could make e-mails and other electr... More >
The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new division, thanks to Bernard Madoff, who is currently serving 150 years in prison for his role in what has been called the largest securities fraud i... More >
Earlier this month, I wondered whether Vicki Walker and her wrongful termination case caused New Zealand's ProCare Health to establish or revise its e-mail use policies. Regardless, I suggested it ... More >
Monday, Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski announced a plan to formalize the net neutrality principles under which the agency has been operating for the last four years into... More >
The U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division has already asked Microsoft and Yahoo for more details on their pending search deal. Now, Reuters reports the European Commission is in talks wi... More >
ITWorld.com blogger Cara Garretson says attendees at Forrester's recent Security Forum "broke into thunderous applause when two separate speakers spoke out against Twitter ." And why not? According... More >
Continuing the communication policy theme, a recent CFO.com article suggests that corporate policies should extend beyond e-mail to include all internal communications, especially those between... More >
When ProCare Health fired Vicki Walker, the company complained that Walker consistently used all caps, bolded, and sometimes even red text in e-mails, which her coworkers found offensive and confro... More >
Late last month, Matthew Cantor, a partner in the New York law offices of Constantine Cannon, said regulators (like the antitrust division of the Department of Justice) will not let the Microsoft-Yah... More >
In an age when technology options abound and an always-on mentality is prevalent, it's a given that often we use our personal devices to conduct business. So what's a person to do when those business... More >
I've said before that it's important to be careful what one says in an e-mail. It could, and most likely will, come back to haunt you, after all. But apparently it's just as important to be careful h... More >
The beginning of the Obama Administration signaled a changing of the guard at most U.S. agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission. When Mary Schapiro took the reins from Christopher ... More >
Even though the U.S. approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on Aug. 20 with no reservation, we learned on Friday that the European Union has launched a full investigation into the transac... More >
The City of Bozeman, Mont., found itself in hot water with social networking sites and privacy advocates not long ago when word got out that it was requiring job applicants to hand over their account... More >
Remember the injunction that would have required Microsoft to stop selling Word with XML capabilities as of next month? And the appellate hearing the company will have later this month ? ZDNet r... More >
The U.S. is fine with Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but apparently the European Union has some questions. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the European Commission has launched a full in... More >
Evolve IP 's Carl Herberger says companies should tip their employees off that they will be testing their response to different social engineering schemes. It's just like when department stores are r... More >
Traditional brick-and-mortar businesses aren't the only ones struggling with whether and how to embrace social media. The Washington Post reports the National Football League has recently release... More >
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