Friday - January 22, 2010
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard has undoubtedly made a significant improvement to the security of cardholder account numbers and other sensitive information within the payment card infrastructure. The standard lays out a strong set of requirements that merchants, acquirers and processors must follow. However, complying with PCI DSS should not be considered a silver bullet for protecting information and battling fraud. Many of the companies victimized by data breaches in recent years were, in fact, PCI-compliant prior to the breach.
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Thursday - January 21, 2010
After strenuous deliberations, the European Union's antitrust regulatory authority is giving Oracle's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems a green light. The EU's approval is the culmination of a months-long dispute between Oracle and Europe that threatened the deal's survival.
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Thursday - January 21, 2010
Cable TV companies will no longer be able to use a federal loophole to withhold sports networks and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals. The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-to-1 on Wednesday to close the so-called "terrestrial loophole" in a 1992 federal cable law.
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Thursday - January 21, 2010
Aberdeen's August 2009 research "Talent Acquisition Strategies 2009" found that the top strategy organizations are pursuing in the area of recruiting today is to proactively build and expand a candidate pipeline regardless of current hiring needs.
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Wednesday - January 20, 2010
Authors and publishers of select Kindle e-books will soon be able to earn royalties as high as 70 percent of a title's list price, net of delivery costs, under a new plan announced by Amazon. The new option will be available starting June 30 for in-copyright Kindle books whose list price is both between $2.99 and $9.99 and at least 20 percent below the lowest list price for the physical book.
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Wednesday - January 20, 2010
The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience. The potential pitfalls have made most other major newspapers hesitant to take a similar step.
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Wednesday - January 20, 2010
C-level executives and IT departments may be pleasantly surprised to find that there's a source of hidden gold that may potentially net your organization much needed licenses and other already-negotiated extras. While there are no guarantees, the chances are good that your organization's existing licensing contracts could net you a windfall.
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Tuesday - January 19, 2010
Microsoft has said it will change Bing's search data retention policies, promising to hold users' IP address data for only six months instead of 18. The change in policy is due to a number of trends, including growing pressure from regulatory authorities, Bing Chief Privacy Strategist Peter Cullen acknowledged. In particular, he referenced the standards set by the Article 29 Working Party.
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Tuesday - January 19, 2010
Consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 at mobile application stores, while related advertising revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide, according to new statistics from Gartner. Those numbers are expected to rapidly grow within the next few years, the analyst firm predicted: By 2013, worldwide downloads will surpass $21.6 billion.
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Tuesday - January 19, 2010
Not surprisingly, most folks see CES as a watershed event for tracking the latest in current, emerging and future consumer electronics trends. So why did I travel to CES 2010 in search of products related to business IT? Pure contrariness is one reply, but let's also toss in the common, if sometimes subtle, linkages between consumer and business IT.
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Monday - January 18, 2010
The Gray Lady may once again ask for some green if you want to view something that's black and white and read all over. Reports surfaced over the weekend that The New York Times is about to announce another attempt at a paid-access business model for its Web site, with management apparently deciding that a metered approach stands the greatest chance of success without alienating consumers.
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