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  • Apple's COO gets $22m bonus

    Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook earned a US$5 million cash bonus plus stock that could be worth nearly $17 million for filling in while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave last year.In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Tim • Steve • Officer • Jobs • Cash • Bonus

  • ICANN boss slammed for DNS security warning

    The Country Code Name Supporting Organization of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has criticised ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom for "inflammatory" comments that the Domain Name System is not as secure as it used to be…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Organization • Names • Domain • Dns • Council • Assigned

  • NASA space shuttle prepares to complete space station

    The Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee has proposed extension of the ISS until 2020 in three of its five possible scenarios and Congress has directed NASA to take steps to ensure that it remains capable of remaining a viable and…
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Station • Module • Mission • Carry • Carrier • Budget

  • Google, PayPal launch Open Identity Exchange

    Founding members include Google, Equifax, PayPal and Verizon, among others.According to OIX chairman Dan Thibeau, the organisation was created to show support by the private sector for standards from the US government's Identity, Credential and…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Privacy • Identity • Federal • Compliance • Cio • Agencies

  • US may use WTO to resolve Google-China dispute

    But we have a responsibility in the United States, and Congress shares in that responsibility, to ensure that American companies are not complicit in violating freedom of expression.Durbin spoke at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee's…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Trade • Stage • Criminal • Battle • American • Administration

  • Microsoft browser ballot should go global, say rivals

    A lobbying group composed of Microsoft rivals today called on antitrust regulators worldwide to pressure the company into offering a browser ballot screen to their citizens.The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) urged officials…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Maker • Europe • Countries • Chrome • Browsers • Antitrust

Latest Features

  • Business needs new IT blood

    Increasingly, they want to see sustainable impact from their giving, according to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), a group of international CEOs dedicated to corporate giving. You can't count on climbing any career ladder.
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Students • Science • Financial Services • Entrylevel • Education • Advance

  • The effect of raising data centre temperatures

    The person who led the society's IT team on Technical Committee 9.9 was Roger Schmidt, an IBM fellow and its chief engineer for data centre energy efficiency.It's unknown how many data centres have adopted the recommendation, or even have enough…
    30 July 2009
    Tags: Silicon • Water • Heat • Data Centres • Data Centre • Door

  • Does IT have a part to play in cutting energy costs?

    Page reports to Meg Garlinghouse, a senior director and the head of a committee known as Yahoo for Good, which focuses on community relations, including efforts to promote green practices. IT used be about IT systems while power and cooling was…
    10 June 2009
    Tags: Power Consumption • Implementing • Ownership • Responsibility • Data Centres • Corporation

  • How important is the 3GPP femto standard?

    Simon Saunders, chair of the Femto Forum, puts it more diplomatically: "What you are usually doing is making it up by committee, creating a paper standard, which you then go off and implement. The Femto Forum's standard improves the chances that…
    09 June 2008
    Tags: Handsets • Implemented • Elements • Sip • Forum • Telecoms

  • Femtocells win friends and influence people

    The 3GPP recently upgraded femtos from a study topic to a committee work item, which means a standard will be developed. Femtocells - the consumer devices that extend cellular coverage indoors, using broadband to connect mobile devices to the phone…
    21 May 2008
    Tags: Silicon • Peter Judge • Reality • Cellular • Aruba • Hub

  • Wanted: Convergence standard for 802.21

    With the exception of 802.1, the charter of the IEEE's 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee is to deal with the MAC layer and below. This is good technology, and it has the support of the likes of InterDigital and even Intel.
    30 April 2008
    Tags: Ieee • Layer • Convergence • Craig • Converged • Mathias

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How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    Banks, too, must amplify their security practices to combat the tactics cybercriminals are now using to perpetrate this type of fraud.Business banking attacks on the riseConsider that in a single month this past August, no less than the FDIC…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • Case Study: Pilgrims on the wireless trail

    They formed a steering committee and fine-tuned the mission: OpenCape would be a regional transport communications net for education, research and economic development, and for emergency communications services in event of a hurricane or other…
    18 June 2007
    Tags: Motorola • Spectrum • Economic • Council • Transport • Hole

  • Case Study: VA installs encryption software on 15,000 laptops

    It is also working to furnish government-owned laptops to VA employees who currently use their personal machines to do official work at home, the VA's supervisor of information and technology, Robert Howard, told lawmakers on Tuesday.Howard…
    29 September 2006
    Tags: Laptops • Assessment • Owned • Breach • Agency • Organization

  • Case Study: RFID stops elks wasting away

    We prefer it be a government-sponsored database, said Richard Bowman, chairman of the animal identification committee of the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, in Billings, Mont.
    02 February 2006
    Tags: Tracks • Tracking • Rfid • Log • Distance • Identification

  • Case Study: What customers want in this new year (part 1)

    A lot of products coming out today are built on proprietary ways of doing things," says Pat Snack, the General Motors executive who heads up the e-commerce committee of the Automotive Industry Action Group.
    17 January 2006
    Tags: Departments • Disaster Recovery • Communication • Retail • Locations • Stores

  • Case Study: Bound to fail

    They become brittle with age, and you have to take great care in maintaining them.In 1998, Dublikar and his IT steering committee brought in consultants from Sabre, the Southlake, Texas-based airline software and consulting company, to create a…
    10 October 2005
    Tags: Classic • Leadership • Selection • Business Processes • Crash • Reputation

Reviews

  • Infoblox 1050

    These are pretty affordable for the kind of organisation that has that level of usage; in the company I work in, for instance, I could justify this cost pretty easily to the investment committee because it's a reasonable price to pay for being…
    08 December 2009
    Tags: Dns • Implemented • Console • Buttons • Ip Address • Navigation

  • 3Par InServ Enterprise Storage Server

    Two days in Budget Committee meetings. A highly scalable and reliable storage server for enterprise-class applications. You spent three weeks preparing a presentation for management. Twelve visits to vendors and vendor reference sites before…
    24 May 2004
    Tags: Supplies • Chassis • Node • Sec • Nodes • Throughput

White Papers

  • Forrester Report: The Evolving Security Organization

    It's very difficult to align, communicate, and involve other business areas; creating a security steering committee could allow you to achieve those objectives. Defining an appropriate organizational structure and staffing model for information…
    06 November 2007
    Tags: Achieve • Role • Responsibilities • Structure • Organizational • Staffing

  • Improving Sarbanes-Oxley Internal Compliance with Exective Content Protection Controls

    While these senior managers once just informally told their board of directors, its audit committee and external auditors that their internal controls were adequate, today they must document, assess and test those internal controls under SOX…
    24 May 2007
    Tags: Compliance • Assets • Requirements • Controls • Assurance • Oxley

  • SuperGrids Selects LSI Logic Storage Adapters

    As a CEO and founder of multiple companies, and a long-term member of the Deal Committee of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest organization still dedicated exclusively to funding and advising seed stage startups, Antonio Salerno…
    17 April 2007
    Tags: Provider • Adapters • Hosting • Logic • Raid • Lsi

  • Resource Discovery Services for Grid Computing Training

    The main focus is on the development of the resource discovery services (part of the infrastructure) in collaboration with a project funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). This paper describes a shared digital library…
    08 March 2007
    Tags: Library • Resource • Discovery • Framework • Learning • Oriented

  • Oracle Database 10G and XA

    This paper shows at Fannie Mae how they managed to achieve a throughput of over 1 million financial transactions per hour using XA.Oracle participated in the XA specification committee and introduced XA protocol support in Oracle 7 database release.
    22 January 2007
    Tags: Databases • Commerce • Distributed • Achieve • Environments • Transactions

  • Challenges of Enterprise Document Management

    Companies on average spend $25,000 to fill a typical four-drawer file cabinet, $2,000 to maintain it each year, and over its life, a single piece of paper costs an average of $30.1 The documents that organizations produce from spreadsheets…
    22 January 2007
    Tags: Document • Documents • Paper • Agencies • Age • Organizations

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