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When will organizations pay for data breaches?
Insight perspective More than a year after appearing in U.K. statute books, the watchdog's power to fine for data breaches is not yet operational. One lawyer urges those involved not to lose momentum.
Tags: Data security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Business security, Outsourcing, disc, compliance, financial, financial service, data protection
Schmidt: It's Google's duty to help fix ad business
News Google's CEO says the company has a "moral imperative" to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the Internet.
Tags: Internet advertising, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, monetization, text advertisement, co-founder, Eric Schmidt, revenue, media company
CEOs endorse 'foothold strategy' for electric cars
News The Electrification Coalition of different companies pushes for policies to promote electric vehicles in six to eight regions in the U.S. as a way to build critical mass.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Electrification Coalition, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., CEO, U.S., Green IT, Plug-in, electric vehicle, Sales
Gmail outage hits 'small subset of users'
News Latest in a series of outages hits Google's e-mail service. This problem doesn't appear as widespread as the one earlier this month.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Dashboard, Mozilla Thunderbird, e-mail, spokesman, Google Apps, Google Gmail
UK government open source guidelines ignored, says Ingres
News Software tenders that have taken place since the government published its open source policy in February have ignored those guidelines, according to database firm Ingres.
Tags: Open source, Open-source Database, Chief Information Officer, Open-source Software, Ingres, proprietary software, open standard, Open source, incentive, ZDNet Asia
Report: 1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks
News Despite many saying the netbook era is over, the popularity of miniature notebooks is increasing.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Telecommunications, Europe, Notebook, computer, Microsoft ASP, portable computer, North America, telecommunications company, incentive
Non-traditional cures to keep projects on schedule, on budget
Techguide Telling a client the project is late and running over budget is unpleasant and possibly humiliating. Two non-traditional methods for involving in-house personnel from the project's inception, can help keep things on track.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, IT Manager, CIO, editor-in-chief, consultant, desktop, incentive, team
PayPal targets students, parents with debit cards
News New program lets parents keep track of their kids' expenses and act as the bank by funneling money into a monitored debit account.
Tags: Web sites, E-commerce, ATM, PayPal, MasterCard International, VP, debit card, bank, U.S., credit card
YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs
News Want to peek inside Google's formerly uber-secret data centers? The company has published a tour of its facilities on YouTube.
Tags: Data centers, Conference, Google Inc., financial incentive, Environment, Server, YouTube Inc., financial, data center, Belgium
Singapore BCM Standard SS540: TR19 with a facelift
Blogs In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business...
IBM invests in business partners' training
News Big Blue's business development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around data centers.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Data centers, IT training, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Training, energy efficiency, business development, marketing
Woz urges engineers to follow their hearts
News Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, recalls his early days of fulfilling his engineering dream by working for Hewlett-Packard while designing Apple computers.
Tags: Personal Computers, Processors, Steve Wozniak, Passion, Broadband, Computer, Moira Gunn, San Francisco, Apple II, co-founder
Yahoo shares dip on earnings news, Microsoft threat
News Investors and analysts find fault with Yahoo's first-quarter numbers and its stance on the takeover bid--as Microsoft's CEO says Redmond could walk away.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Security, Credit Suisse First Boston, Yahoo! Inc., software company, Stock, performance, software
IBM looks to bridge worlds of IT and electricity
News The company's top hardware executive Bill Zeitler plans to call for co-marketing with utilities to promote data center efficiency incentives.
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Energy Usage, energy efficiency, program manager, Edison Electric Institute, Con Edison Communications, information technology
Data center gets highest green building rating
News ADC says it will be the first to get the highest green building certification for a data center. Its secret cooling ingredient? Outdoor air.
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, ADC Telecommunications Inc., billing, data center, leadership, technique, tenant, incentive, president
