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February 6, 2012

Indian Lawsuit Forces Google, Facebook to Remove Content

After lawsuits were brought to civil and criminal Indian courts, citing a law in that country that makes online companies responsible for content posted to their sites by users, both Google and Faceb... More >

January 30, 2012

Tech Companies Collaborate on DMARC to Fight Phishing

The DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance , standard will be backed by a collaborative group of large tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google, i... More >

January 9, 2012

ICANN to Go Forward with New Top-Level Domains

This week, ICANN will go forward with its plan to accept applications for management of new registry domains, though it is still receiving objections from corporations worried about skyrocketing fina... More >

JBoss Operations Network: Measuring Business Impact and ROI

This study focuses on the quantitative benefits gained from using the JBoss ON management platform; including discovery and inventory, configuration management, application deployment, availability management, performance management, content management and a positive ROI.

A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance

This technical white paper demonstrates the extent of the performance lead that an all-in-one virtualization server enjoys over x86-based add-on virtualization products, such as VMware.

November 11, 2011

German Regulator Says Facebook Violates EU Privacy Law

When IT Business Edge's Lora Bentley wrote about privacy concerns raised by Facebook's facial recognition feature in August, she mentioned that regulators in the European Union were studying the fe... More >

November 8, 2011

Risk Tech Spending on Rise in Financial Services

Rocky economic conditions around the globe are making companies painfully aware of their exposure to financial risk. So it's no surprise that IDC Financial Insights expects risk technology spending ... More >

November 3, 2011

Contestants Get Sensitive Data, Demonstrate Importance of Policies

Practically every company offers some kind of guidelines to employees to prevent them from disclosing sensitive information. Yet those policies may not go far enough, based on a contest at the recent... More >

October 10, 2011

Companies Adopt Broader View of Risk Management

If there's one thing the financial market meltdown of 2008 taught organizations, it's that the models they used to assess and reduce financial risk weren't adequate. That realization is affecting wh... More >

October 5, 2011

Samsung Files Injunctions to Block iPhone 4S Sales in France and Italy

The Samsung-Apple fracas continues. Just as soon as Apple announced the launch of its new iPhone 4S, Samsung hit back with plans to file separate preliminary injunctions to block sales in France an... More >

September 28, 2011

Facebook Forms a PAC

Facebook is a favorite target of privacy groups , which encourage the U.S. government to more closely scrutinize its activities. For instance, in June the Electronic Privacy Information Center and th... More >

August 22, 2011

Germany Bans Agencies from Using Facebook, 'Like' Button

The German Data Protection Commissioner’s Office has ordered federal agencies to shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as "like" buttons from their Web sites, accord... More >

August 4, 2011

Germany Questions Facebook on Facial Recognition

According to Computerworld , Germany's Data Protection Agency has sent a letter to Facebook expressing concerns over the social networking site's facial recognition feature. The DPA believes that ... More >

July 21, 2011

House Subcommittee Passes Data Breach Notification Bill

Computerworld reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's trade subcommittee has approved the Secure and Fortify Electronic Data Act (SAFE Data Act), which would mandate that companies ... More >

July 8, 2011

UCLA Medical Center Fined $865,000 to Settle HIPAA Violation Charges

According to Computerworld , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that the University of California at Los Angeles Health System has agreed to pay an $865,000 fine , as well as ent... More >

June 28, 2011

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Warrantless GPS Tracking

According to Reuters , the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit concerning whether police need a warrant to install a GPS device to track a suspect's movements for an extended period of time... More >

June 27, 2011

FTC Probes Google over Business Practices

The Los Angeles Times reports that Google has confirmed the Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal probe into its business practices, including search and advertising. The FTC is remaining... More >

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