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The biggest change could be for West Coast staffers who may have to pull up roots. "Some of the MSNBC news folks based in Redmond will have the tough decision of whether or not to leave the Seattle lifestyle and move to New York to keep their jobs," said McCombs....

Many organizations avoid frank discussions about risk factors for any number of reasons. If an organization is thriving, those who discover potential risk can be classified as fear-mongers or worry warts. Perhaps, the person who uncovers a potential risk factor is a junior-level staffer and is hesitant to bring this information to the forefront. In many cases, discussing risk may uncover unsightly truths about the organization that executives may want to be left hidden. Whatever the reason, avoidance of risk communication cannot exist in today's business climate.

Federal Staffers Open to Innovation In a survey of 220 federal IT workers conducted by MeriTalk, respondents indicated a strong interest in IT innovation....

It didn't exactly happen that way, though, according to Robert Murphy, partner with law firm Dykema and former SEC staff attorney Facebook did disclose the information in question in an update to its prospectus about 10 days before its IPO, he said....

The driver behind the deliberations is the hacking scandal that has enmeshed News Corp.'s UK newspapers. Ofcom, the UK's regulatory agency, is now considering whether News Corp. should keep its stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group, partly in response to the fallout from the reports of sordid spying activities on the part of News Corp. staff. Last year, News Corp. was forced to drop a $12 billion bid for the remaining 61 percent stake of the company for that reason...

To have a few language experts on staff could significantly improve Google's speed in creating a man/machine interface breakthrough that could bypass Apple and Microsoft, Enderle told TechNewWorld "Finally, Google's core goal is to make information accessible," he pointed ou...

If you're in IT and your job involves securing your organizations' infrastructure, you've probably spent a good deal of time thinking through control selection -- in other words, picking the controls that most directly help you accomplish the goal of securing your environment. And you've probably also spent an equally large amount of your and your staff's time evaluating how the controls you've selected perform. ...

That's because they carry the digital devices they use at home into their work. Their preference is to work whenever and wherever they are most productive, and technology has allowed them to succeed in that pursuit with handheld devices that place an office full of capabilities in their pocket. The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon is creating security headaches for IT staff, but it's helping 21st-century companies experience their own boom...

If a customer walked into one of your brick-and-mortar stores -- assuming, for this exercise, that you have brick-and-mortar stores -- and asked if you had any Sleepytime Pajamas, how would you want your sales associate to respond? Whether you only carried Sweet Dreams Pajamas, you'd just sold out of Sleepytime, or you didn't sell pajamas at all, you'd never want the employee to say, "I'm sorry, we don't have that," and walk away. You'd train your staff to suggest alternatives or guide the conversation toward what you did have, to improve your chances of making a sale...

Across the different types of mobile devices, smartphone adoption in particular is happening at a staggering pace. Nearly a billion smart devices shipped last year, IDC estimated, and the projection called for device shipments increasing to double that rate by 2016. With each new device entering the market, there is a completely new environment that IT staff must learn -- often after the connection to the network has been made...

"BYOD (bring your own device) is an emerging issue in healthcare, as staff bring their latest and greatest devices and ask to use them in their work," Christina Thielst, vice president at Tower Strategies, told TechNewsWorld. Some healthcare organizations allow or even encourage employees and physicians to bring in their own devices because it lets them save on the cost of equipment...

"Agency leaders must work with management, staff and industry partners to create and cultivate a 'Shared-First' orientation throughout the organization," it continues. "This will involve changing historical ways of thinking about how business units and programs function -- to move from independent silos of capability toward an integrated matrix of shared services that provide IT capabilities across the entire agency." ...

If your organization creates a social networking space for a certain client population, your staff might choose to participate in the conversations taking place, but they should refrain from offering specific legal, medical or psychological advice. Instead, offer referrals or invite users to come in for an appointment. Also consider including a disclaimer that your forums are not intended as a source of professional advice, but are for informational purposes only...

Often underfunded, understaffed and overworked, IT now has to cope with a plethora of different devices running different operating systems -- or different versions of an operating system. These devices often contain sensitive enterprise material and are basically not secured ...

In-person training and a support website were provided by the library staff. Some of the apps loaded on the iPads included textbooks not currently available via library subscriptions on various platforms; specific information-retrieval apps such as Pubmed on Tap, Micromedex and DynaMed; patient education apps; and a patient log app such as Drchrono, which served the students as a transportable Electronic Health Record...

"This is a preliminary inquiry," Lynn Becker, communications director for Sen. Herb Kohl, told TechNewsWorld. Kohl is a member of the Judiciary Committee. "Our staff is trying to figure out the facts of the issue, but we're not looking into a hearing at this time." Windows 8 ...

May 9: University of North Carolina, Charlotte, reported 350,000 Social Security numbers and other sensitive data of students, staff and faculty has been publicly available for almost 15 years due to a configuration error in the school's computer systems May 11: Clothing and s...

The guy who had been portrayed as the next Bill Gates was so horrid to work with that no one wanted the privilege, and he basically had one beat-up assistant who followed him around as his full staff. While Netscape brought in Jim Barksdale to run the company, and that did ...

Oracle's attorneys reintroduced emails exchanged among Rubin and other Google staffers about a possible lawsuit from Sun Microsystems and negotiations for a partnership in which Google would have the rights to Sun's IP. Under questioning, Rubin maintained that as an engineer,...

Due diligence when hiring staff may seem to be normal practice, especially when the post to be filled is at a high level But that's not necessarily the case, Michael Murphy, a retired a human resources director, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's not uncommon when you're hiring ...