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The SEC is also looking into whether HP fully disclosed what it knew about Perkins' departure, with staff at the regulator questioning why HP did not notify the SEC that Perkins left the board because of an internal dispute. "HP intends to respond to the SEC staff that it believes its disclosures with respect to Mr. Perkin's resignation were accurate and complete at the time," the company said in its latest filing...

This step starts with brainstorming. Staff should identify key operational processes and list every hazard practically imaginable for these activities. A hazard can be defined as any real or potential condition that can cause operational degradation, injury, illness or death to personnel; or damage to or loss of equipment, property or other assets...

Back when I was a formal competitive analyst, I worked with one of the most advanced teams in the technology market. While we paled when compared to the vastly better funded and staffed teams in the pharmaceuticals industry, in our own industry, we were market leading. Part of what we did was profile CEOs to forecast future moves based on personality, age, health and past behavior...

The volume and complexity of user-installed software has a direct impact on help desks and end-user support due to their unintended consequences such as software incompatibility, system corruptions, and the consumption of resources such as storage and bandwidth. Furthermore, malicious software has become more sophisticated in the way it slips onto the desktop, presenting IT staffs with an added incentive to fortify their desktop environments from these serious new threats to data integrity and operations...

Another company in the healthcare field decided to get automated with a new CRM system and launched a new medical service the same day, without bothering to train the technicians, administrative staff, and physicians on the new system The result: chaos. The company was back t...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based KnowNow, a provider of publish-and-subscribe information services, announced Monday the deployment of two KnowNow systems at financial services company Wells Fargo ...

On the other hand, if a company has a champion of open source software on staff who is willing to lead an effort, there may be less of a need for a stack provider for that organization. Companies without that champion, or with higher-level governance, may find that stack providers provide a good entry point to open source software...

"Now, more firms are looking at why they should outsource in the beginning of the process, asking themselves what is the most important driver to them," he tells CRM Buyer. "Is it better productivity? Easier access to hard-to-find skills in the home market? The ability to free up IT staff for more creative projects?" There is no one right answer, he says -- but whatever that answer is will shape the outsourcing process...

Sun Microsystems announced this week the availability of source code for its NetBeans Mobility Pack and NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC (Connected Device Configuration), which will be released under the OSI-compliant Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) ...

Nintendo has announced that it will be tapping the rainbow to bring two new colors to its DS Lite line of gaming hardware. Onyx and Coral Pink will join Polar White as available colors for the company's DS Lite players starting September 13 ...

The legal benchmark -- called the teaching-suggestion-motivation test -- has been used by federal courts for more than a decade, but it's never been reviewed by the nation's highest court until now, according to EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry "The Supreme Court has decide...

Human Resource Costs -- How much effort is required to train people to use the solution? Are specialists -- either on staff or contracted -- required to set up, manage, maintain and change the system? By considering each of these areas, TCO -- as well as an understanding of t...

Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS), a supplier ofsecurity and information-sharing applications for government and industry, has partnered withIBM to launch the TCS SecureOffice suite of cross-domain guards based on Linux ...

With its Open Source Software Lab project, Microsoft provides secure office space for developers, plus hardware, VPN access, and one-on-one access to Microsoft product team developers and support staff Mozilla has not posted a reply to the thread. Mozilla executives were not i...

Even though AOL has pulled down the data, copies are circulating around the Internet, with some marketing companies downloading the data to perform their own analysis, noted Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Marcia Hoffman. "The risks are compounded as the data spreads," she said...

Too often, companies don't follow Queensboro's lead. In a 2001 survey of European companies, Gartner found that while 95 percent of companies collected feedback, just 50 percent alerted staff of the findings, 30 percent made decisions based on the findings, 10 percent deployed and improved processes based on the findings, and 5 percent informed customers of the resulting changes...

Other security features include a completely separate local area network, separate data backup, separate storage, and a policy requiring administrative staff to sign nondisclosure agreements with Deutsche Bank The bank's disaster recovery criteria are also stringent, Gavriluk ...

Collax has announced the launch of Collax Business Server, a suite of open source applications for security, networking and communications ...

The other most common negative factor is the amount of paper work and the investment of time that your staff has to go through to get periodic advances on your invoices and accounts receivable Why Such a High Interest Rate?...

"Because many firms get impressive results without dedicated analytics staff, site managers find it hard to make a case for why they need them," the report said Driving in Circles...