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Microsoft last week announced a large staff reduction tied to the acquisition of Nokia. There is actually a science to how to make layoffs, but much of that appears to have been lost over the last couple of decades. I have some theories as to why (I blame the Democrats and ...

In addition to the risk that some good staff members who are integral to the organization may be laid off, employee morale overall may suffer, Laura DiDio, principal at ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times Some well-qualified, desirable staff may decide to leave on their own, whic...

Big Data wouldn't have gotten so much attention over the past few years if it weren't for the availability of cloud services that enable organizations to do something with all the data. Organizations have always faced challenges acquiring, analyzing and acting on data. Third-party data processing services have been a lucrative business for many years because most organizations haven't had and didn't want to invest in internal systems and staff to collect, collate and interpret the data themselves...

"It's clear the intelligence community has stepped far beyond the bounds we've established for them, and it's time Congress stepped in," remarked Mark Rumold, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Getting Your Hate On...

Smartphones, whether owned by an enterprise and provided to the staff or owned by consumers, must be wiped before they are reissued, discarded, or sold, KnowBe4's Sjouwerman said "Use encryption in corporate applications for BYOD phones," Marble's Jevans suggested....

It "is a very weak report" that "fails to fully grasp the significance of allowing the government to conduct surveillance on a massive scale, to store the communications of millions of Americans in databases, and to let the government search those databases without adequate restrictions," Patrick Toomey, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project, told TechNewsWorld...

Zendesk Insights follows the same installation path that the company's main application does, Boonin said. That is, it is very easy to install and doesn't require a company's IT staff or an outside consulting shop to assist in the implementation or integration. With Insights...

Virgin Atlantic recently announced the expansion of a pilot project in which flight attendants use Google Glass to meet and greet customers. For the initial project, the airline equipped the concierge staff in its Upper Class Wing at London's Heathrow airport with Google Glass so they would have easy access to such information as connecting flights or loyalty points.

Facebook reportedly handed over the data after being threatened with having staff jailed, being subjected to a grand jury investigation, or becoming the target of a criminal investigation that might see a search warrant executed on its offices Facebook did not respond to our r...

"The European court's ruling is incompatible with the right to free expression and wouldn't be possible on American soil because of the First Amendment's protections," said Lee Rowland, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology.

Evidence in other cases involving warrantless police searches of arrestees' cellphones now "may be vulnerable to being thrown out," Nate Wessler, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, told TechNewsWorld The ruling also may provide fresh ammunition for those ...

Meanwhile, staffer Adam Langley has announced that Google is changing the way it works with OpenSSL code Google has used patches on top of OpenSSL for years, he said.

Using the call center could lead to privacy issues because "people often do stupid things, particularly if they aren't very experienced, because this is how call centers are staffed," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. A mistake "could badly dama...

"When one of the most innovative companies in the country criticizes the patent system, it is clear the system isn't working as it should," Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told LinuxInsider Musk's move "should provide some extra support fo...

Another migration path is to forgo acclimating office staff to the Linux desktop. Instead, enterprises can opt to run their back-office and server operations on a Linux server. Linux servers have a rigorous giant footprint in the networking and cloud computing worlds. Linux servers are commonplace in many other enterprise settings...

As a staff person supporting the fundraising and allocations processes, I saw firsthand how those executives interacted with each other. Very often their discussions wandered from United Way issues to their own business challenges, and the volunteer executives were eager to share information and ideas. They would trade tips about products and services that met their needs, and casually promote their own products and services when appropriate...

The process of maintaining RoboLinux packages is about the same as with any Linux distro. The Software Update Manager is easy to use. IT staff will love the Admin Tools that provide several dozen scripts for tasks that otherwise would require proficiency in using the command line...

One of the first tasks in getting ready for PCI 3.0 is identifying all people, processes and technology involved in your CDE. You'll need to include all security services and segmentation systems, as well as virtualization and network components and server types. You'll also need to account for all internal and external applications. Of course, it's not just equipment; processes can shift, and staff with access to cryptographic keys and CHD can leave or change responsibilities.

Google's global workforce is 70 percent male, according to the report. In the United States, its staff is 61 percent white, 30 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black; 4 percent identify with two or more races As an example of the divergence of those statistics ...

Zappos Insiders makes it easy for job prospects to connect with current Zappos staff privately and publicly -- for instance, through private messaging about specific opportunities or publicly connecting and chatting via Twitter. Privacy is crucial to the process. Identities and other personal information about insiders who don't want their current employers to know they're job-searching will be kept secure...