Tuesday - May 6, 2008
Chief executive officers worldwide believe major change is coming to the global economy and their businesses, according to IBM's biennial study of CEOs. The executives are are also eager to find ways to keep happy consumers who are increasingly information-savvy and who expect the businesses they buy from to be more socially responsible and green. The technology giant billed its Global CEO Study as the largest effort ever undertaken to gather the thoughts and concerns of chief executives around the world.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
Sam's Club warehouse stores are starting a new online recycling program for electronics that will pay for some of the items that customers want to discard. Under the program by Sterling, Va.-based New Customer Service Companies, Sam's Club will help its members dispose of older small- to medium-size electronics. The company has a link to the program on its Web site.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
While demand generation professionals consistently turn to a wide variety of direct marketing software and e-mail marketing tools in search of sales leads, current research by Aberdeen points to a significant spend associated with a more human element: outsourced B2B teleservices, provided by a large array of vendors offering different models of phone-based support by outside agencies.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
The next five years or so will spell big trouble for data centers. About 46 percent of more than 150 IT professionals and executives surveyed earlier this year by the Business Performance Management Forum said they're running out of space, power and cooling infrastructure for their data centers.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
Data management rules and regulations have become a major concern for businesses, due in large part to increasing oversight that often requires organizations to invest in new technologies in order to address compliance issues. However, the promise of enterprise technologies as a solution to the demands of data management compliance will go unmet absent a context of sound policy and strategic planning.
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Sunday - April 27, 2008
Identity theft, a cyber-crime causing inestimable damage for scores of ordinary citizens, has prompted passage of the federal FACT Act Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, issued this year. Part of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the rule aims to combat the scourge of identity theft, which each year victimizes 8.3 million Americans for a total of $15.6 billion in losses, according to the FTC.
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Saturday - April 26, 2008
When it comes to properly managing and protecting critical enterprise data and information resources, Corporate America is stuck between two strongly opposing forces. The U.S. is world "cyber-crime" headquarters, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2007 Internet Crime Report.
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Saturday - April 26, 2008
After two years working nights at a U.S. company's computer call center in Bangalore, India, Vasmi knew it was time to quit when his 6-year-old son brought home a school portrait he'd drawn of his father, asleep in bed. "He was asked to draw a picture of his Mom and Dad, and he drew me sleeping. That's the only way he ever saw me," remembers the 31-year-old. "He never saw me doing anything else."
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Friday - April 25, 2008
The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust. Then there's the fact that this stuff is pretty easily broken.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which recognizes the threat Web application vulnerabilities pose to credit card data, allows organizations to choose between two mitigation techniques.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
Since 2005, millions of citizens have been affected by reported and unreported data breaches at payment processors, banks and retailers -- but the nation was still stunned when news broke out about the TJX data breach. This has indeed been a larger problem than most recognize, with some 88 million consumers affected by data breaches in the past two years alone, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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