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All executives of public companies know of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), which was signed into law on July 30, 2002. Many owners of small businesses planning an IPO certainly are aware of it, and some dread it In fact, there are owners of small-cap companies who have withdrawn their IPO applications because of their fear of SOX. Is this fear justif...
Oracle has prevailed in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice seeking to block its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft. The decision, even though it can be appealed, removes a significant roadblock to the acquisition "This decision puts the onus squarely on the board of PeopleSoft to meet with us and to redeem their poison pill so that the sh...
In an expected move following his arrest and confession earlier this year, an 18-year-old German student has been indicted on computer crimes for his work writing and releasing the Sasser and Netsky worms Sven Jaschan, who was turned in by a peer who sought a US$250,000 reward from Microsoft, was arrested last May when he admitted to making Sasser ...
IBM announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a new version of its database software for Linux and Unix customers. The DB2 Universal Database version 8.2, code-named Stinger, is designed to streamline administrative tasks and will be available September 17 Stinger also has the potential to boost IBM in its competition with Oracle in the database m...
A leading technology industry association lashed out at a recently implemented federal government program that seeks to rein in information technology costs by requiring additional reviews before contracts can be modified The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) said the program, announced by the U.S. General Services Administration...
VeriSign has implemented an enhancement, called "rapid updates," to its .com and .net Domain Name System (DNS) servers ...
The techniques used to develop open-source software like Linux have proven to be so effective that they've been adopted by malware writers to improve their mischievous ways "There's a community of worm builders creating, almost in an open-source fashion, Trojan source code that can be downloaded, compiled and released into the wild," said Scott Cha...
Galyan's, the sporting goods retailer that features climbing walls, kayak demonstrations and archery ranges in its stores, offers an innovative CRM strategy, too For four years, Galyan's has offered a stand-alone loyalty card, Galyan's Rewards, that offers points for purchases, gift certificates for points and special perks like invitations to spec...
One of the areas that is increasingly becoming of concern to online retailers is a state's power to regulate e-commerce through enforcing that particular state's regulation of certain offline business activities. A recent case in point is Powers v. Harris, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of an Oklahoma statute regulating casket sales...
During a break in a series of discussions on the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance for Canadian healthcare players, one of the attendees regaled the group with a long brag about how his company's techies had defeated a phishing attack According to the story, the company's wizards had discovered a phishing a...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a mostly upbeat message to Congress about the state of the U.S. economy on Wednesday, but the positive prognosis was not enough to rally stocks While some investors focused on the likelihood of more interest rate hikes, others might have been wondering how a rash of recent midquarter warnings fit into th...
Hitachi Data Systems hopes its new universal data storage platform (USP) and software will lure customers from main competitors EMC and IBM. However, analysts indicated that the Hitachi approach might be hindered by apprehension over the company's massive, monolithic storage array HDS announced a "new enterprise storage lineup," which consists of t...
With good momentum already in the United States and worldwide, a new report from In-Stat/MDR suggests that mobile gaming, while remaining a niche market, will continue its rise as a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues The research firm estimates that by 2009, mobile gaming services in the United States will generate US$1.8 billion a...
The state of California has dropped a criminal investigation into the company that sold it electronic voting machines but instead will join an existing lawsuit charging that the company made false claims about the reliability of the machines California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he would sign on to the lawsuit against Diebold after it was d...
Enterprise infrastructure and wireless software provider Sybase announced on Wednesday that it will be offering the first free deployment version of Sybase ASE Express Edition for Linux, an enterprise-class Linux database With the introduction of this edition, the company notes that enterprises, the developer community and small businesses will be ...
Nokia has announced the Nokia 9300, a new version of the company's Communicator that will be available early next year On the outside, the Nokia 9300 looks like a slim mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and color screen. The 9300 is designed to appeal to professionals who want powerful functionality from a data-enabled de...
A federal appeals court in Boston has been asked to take a second look at a decision that some say could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States The decision handed down by a panel of appeals court judges ruled that monitoring the content of people's incoming e-mail by a service provider does not vi...
Is your corporate image sending messages of love, hate, profanity or sobriety? No matter how and where you travel, with or without your products or your corporate image, the chances are that a lot of your marketing messages are getting lost in translation as they make their way around the globe Business names are being hit the hardest as the world ...
Through its RIAA (Recording Industry Association) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association) enforcement units, the entertainment industry has been riding rough-shod over consumers ever since Napster -- the original, not the ghastly Napster II -- showed up online Napster's appearance represented the first act in a commercial revolution that pits ordinar...
With Hurricanes Charley and Frances inflicting an estimated $40 billion worth of damage to the state of Florida in just three weeks, insurance companies have been forced onto high alert "Natural disasters are our business," Jeanne Salvatore, spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute, told CRM Buyer....
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