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"Handling each of these transitions separately without a set of common standards and best practices not only costs us valuable staff time, it also poses a burden that can deter contractors from competing for our business and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars," he said Progra...

The quick answer: It depends. The type of cloud services you select might be dictated by your IT budget, the core competencies of your IT staff, and your IT strategy and tactics (meaning which applications you keep in-house, versus which ones you selectively outsource) To begi...

A regional court in Mannheim, Germany, has ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility in one of several patent infringement lawsuits the company has brought against Apple in the country, patent consultant Florian Mueller reported ...

The eight federal agencies with the highest IT budgets don't measure up in their workforce planning practices for cybersecurity staff, the GAO has warned These are the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Commerce, T...

Within the private sector, companies can use the tool directly with their programming staffs, or vendors who offer code security services and products can use it as a benchmark for their offerings, he added "The SRD is for companies that build static analyzers, whose use is ex...

"You can't just look at the IT side and leave the process control side alone," Miller said. "My staff and I all have process control experience, and have all worked for utilities." The biggest threat to control systems in the future will be cyber in nature, IT security expert ...

"We're acting as counsel for Mr. Eckhart in this matter, and we're monitoring the situation as it develops," EFF senior staff attorney Marcia Hoffman told TechNewsWorld Where's the Privacy?...

No one's going to spot holes in your CRM strategy or changes in important customer data faster that your front-line sales, marketing and service staff. Do they know who to go to when they see these opportunities -- and do they even know that someone in the organization wants to hear from them? ...

The Rolling Stone app lists albums recommended by the magazine's staff, as well as songs and playlists Rolling Stone will create playlists daily now instead of every two weeks, Cofounder and Publisher Jann Wenner said at the launch....

Cookstr, in short, brings recipes alive in the digital space. Unlike some other cooking sites that rely entirely on user-generated content, Cookstr has a staff of food specialists that create, edit and publish recipes, as well as partnerships with cookbook publishers that give the site access to recipes from their cookbooks...

Facebook has notably high overhead costs from data centers and staffing, he added. "Facebook's revenues have essentially doubled since 2010, but the company still does a tiny fraction of the business of mainline companies such as HP and Disney," said King, though Facebook ma...

In addition to putting the legislation at the top of the agenda, lawmakers signaled that agreement was beginning to emerge on substantive components of the complex initiative. The first public hint that some activity was afoot was a brief acknowledgement in late October that members of the White House staff had met on Capitol Hill with several senators of both parties to discuss approaches to cybersecurity legislation...

That's created an aura of complexity around SCRM. Sure, there are complex components to creating an SCRM strategy -- how do you staff your SCRM efforts? How do you transition from listening to engaging in conversations, and which ones should you engage in? How do you get the results of those conversations into your CRM system?...

AOL: AOL appears to the outside world to be largely dysfunctional at the moment, with internal battles between executives commonly vented in external forums. In short, a lot of folks who write and have large followings appear to be really pissed off at its executive team, and some are leaving. A combination of voice and anger can often result in people saying things in public that otherwise might have remained private, and whether or not there is actually any wrongdoing, allegations can sting. Until AOL turns the corner -- and it is clearly going in the wrong direction at the moment -- there's a high likelihood that someone will go public with a very loud and damaging recounting of events surrounding some executive staffing, acquisition, compensation or other decision. In this instance, there may actually not be a scandal, but perception remains 100 percent of reality. Or the public discourse may, in and of itself, represent that scandal.

Most of that revenue comes through advertising, especially after the company cut its daily deals sales staff in half in August The company said that with about $15 million of the cash from the IPO, it plans to invest in an international sales and marketing force to expand to e...

That first year was an overwhelming success, however, bringing in 11,000 calls to the six home economists on staff. Since then, it has grown in popularity, and it now gets 100,000 calls a year to 51 specially-trained home economists "They all have a background in food," said C...

The investigations are also helpful for regulators who aim to educate first responders to crash scenes. Regulation agencies are looking for tips to pass on to medical and emergency staff who might not be familiar with electric vehicle safety If anything comes from the federal ...

Doing this kills a few birds with one stone: first, it's a morale-booster and show of confidence in the tapped resource (cloud is perceived as "new and interesting" so it's a free way to show recognition to a strong resource). Second, it publicly demonstrates that cloud security is something the security organization is committed to (if you don't care about it, why should staff?). Lastly, it establishes that ownership and accountability feedback loop to increase the likelihood of actually getting something done...

"If a sporting event sells out and there are 500 people who tried to but were unable to get tickets, the system can capture that. Then, the sports team's marketing staff can use this list to try to sell season passes for the next year," Ricks said The company had the resources...

Data integration is critical for companies that need to combine systems and databases after a merger or acquisition, or need to link legacy systems to new business applications. This need is vast throughout commercial and public industries, and the task can be daunting, especially for CIOs and IT managers of small- to medium-sized businesses, whose IT staffs and budgets may be constrained. Add to that the rise of cloud-based data integration services and the decision becomes even more confusing: ...