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Can Google Apps Crumble Microsoft's Office Foundation? December 27, 2012 
Google is heading into the new year with a new set of enterprise customers, the result of moves made this year to revamp its cloud-based productivity applications. For years, Google has been infiltrating areas beyond its core search business. This was the first year it was able to make real headway with large-scale customer adoption for its collaboration software, though.
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Uncle Sam Prefers to Receive Than to Give Security Information December 27, 2012 
The White House last week released its National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding without much fanfare. The document attempts to address a common complaint lodged against government when it comes to information sharing with the private sector: Uncle Sam likes to receive, but isn't so keen on giving.
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Salesforce.com Pilots Tech for Team-Building December 21, 2012 
Salesforce.com rolled out an integration between Sales Cloud and Work.com this week. The integration is currently available in pilot and will be made generally available to all Salesforce.com customers in the first half of 2013. To understand the value-add the integration offers, one first has to become acquainted with Salesforce.com's social performance management platform, Work.com.
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SMBs Can Be More Secure With Cloud, Virtualization, BYOD December 21, 2012 
If you're a technology professional in a small or mid-sized business, chances are pretty good that information security is something you've had on your radar for quite a while now. In a smaller shop, this is usually out of necessity. As well all know, SMBs usually don't have the luxury of an expansive technology budget that would allow for extensive resource specialization.
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Report: Europe May Have Scuttled Google's FTC Deal December 20, 2012 
The postponement of Google's deal with the Federal Trade Commission may have been caused, at least in part, by Europe's tough stance with the company. As of a few days ago, reports suggested that Google was close to hashing out a deal with the FTC, but that the European Commission's two-year antitrust investigation was far from resolved.
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RIM Hustles as Day of Reckoning Looms December 19, 2012 
While BlackBerry 10 devices won't become generally available until sometime in the New Year, more than 120 enterprise customers will reportedly begin testing the new platform as part of the BlackBerry 10 Technical Preview Program that is being rolled out this week. Research in Motion did not disclose the names of the organizations that will get their hands on BB 10 in advance of its Jan. 30, 2013.
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Software Drives Oracle's Strong Q2 December 19, 2012 
Oracle released a quarterly earnings report that exceeded Wall Street expectations, thanks largely to a significant jump in software and cloud subscription revenue. The company announced a profit of $2.6 billion, or 53 cents per share, for the quarter. This compares with the $2.2 billion, or 43 cents per share, it brought in during the same period a year ago.
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EU Sets January Deadline for Google's Antitrust Response December 19, 2012 
The European Union gave Google a January deadline to devise detailed proposals to resolve a two-year antitrust investigation into whether Google used its market dominance to thwart rivals. The Union's antitrust chief, Joaquin Almunia, issued the deadline Tuesday in Brussels to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.
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Predicting the Future Is Not for the Faint of Heart December 19, 2012 
I was doing some research in the Time Magazine archives -- the best ones I have seen, by the way -- the other day and came across this nugget from 1962: "Despite the discouraging results so far, many scientists argue that military-space research will ultimately produce an overflowing cornucopia of marketable consumer products, from supersonic planes to small nuclear reactors for home power."
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Federal Agencies to Slash Number of Data Centers December 19, 2012 
The U.S. government's program to consolidate federal data centers presents an opportunity for improving IT management that goes well beyond the objective of just trying to tidy up data center operations and save a little money. As a result of the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, the number of government data centers will shrink sharply from its current level of about 3,000 centers to about 1,800.
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FTC Asks Data Brokers What They're Doing With Your Info December 18, 2012 
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced that it has demanded nine data brokerage companies explain how they collect and use consumer data. The nine are Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, Peekyou, Rapleaf and Recorded Future. These sites offer information on just about anyone, in most cases for a fee.
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Google in Talks to Resolve Antitrust Issues in Europe December 18, 2012 
While Google is poised to agree to changes in the way it displays search
results and skirt an antitrust investigation in the U.S., things are still unresolved with the European Commission. Google is reportedly still negotiating with European Commission antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia.
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UK Won't Prosecute UFO-Hunting Hacker McKinnon December 17, 2012 
Gary McKinnon, the British man who hacked into U.S. government files to search for evidence of UFOs, will not face prosecution in the United Kingdom. In October, UK officials rejected the United States' extradition request in the decade-old case. The UK's most recent decision will apparently end the McKinnon controversy.
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Healthcare Data Has to Be Both Secure and Right December 17, 2012 
Lake Health, a regional healthcare system in northeast Ohio, has been examining its information-security practices with a maturing approach. It is shifting from deploying security technologies to becoming more of a comprehensive risk-reduction practice provider internally for its own consumers. This has caused Lake Health to look at the quality of its data.
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No Honor Among Multinationals When It Comes to Taxes December 17, 2012 
Google avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting close to $10 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company. Bermuda, along with a handful of other locales, is notorious for providing offshore solutions to multinationals eager to structure cash flow operations to their greatest benefit.
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US Leads Internet Freedom Fighters in Treaty Resistance December 14, 2012 
The United States, the United Kingdom and Canada are among the countries refusing to sign a United Nations treaty on telecommunications and the Internet. Trouble at the World Conference on International Telecommunications began earlier this week when many participants took issue with the way a proposal to encourage governments to expand Internet access was put to vote and then approved.
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2013: The Shape of Cloud Computing to Come December 14, 2012 
SaaS has become an accepted alternative to traditional on-premises enterprise applications, and a broader set of cloud services is becoming a viable option for businesses seeking more flexible, economical computing capabilities. Adoption of these services is accelerating rapidly, because they are delivering tangible, measurable business benefits that clearly demonstrate their value.
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ICE Thaws Over BlackBerry 10 December 13, 2012 
RIM is getting some positive government attention for the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry 10 platform. Just months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it would abandon its longstanding use of the BlackBerry system and give its employees iPhones instead, the agency has decided to give RIM another try.
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Dish Network Gets Down to Earth December 13, 2012 
The Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal from the Dish Network that would allow it to convert spectrum currently allocated for satellite service into airwaves that could support a land-based wireless network. Dish did not lay out specific plans for its next step with the spectrum, saying only that it would "consider its strategic options and the optimal approach" to putting it to use.
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Taxing Authorities' Internet Cat-and-Mouse Game December 12, 2012 
The fact that the Internet has no boundaries of time or geography has changed the way businesses operate forever. One feature of the Internet is that it has allowed creative businesses to avoid, or at least minimize their tax liabilities. In particular, Google's business success means that it has to manage its operations if it wants to minimize its tax burden.
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