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Lawyers, brokers and financial analysts could all be playing loose with data on their smartphones, sending and receiving all sorts of confidential information -- from client names and addresses to staff cuts or mergers. That same information can also make its way to other users and devices, where enterprise control is lost for good...

About 300 people squeezed into the room, forcing hotel staff to bring in some chairs and some attendees to liberate seating from nearby rooms. "I don't think they expected to have so many people," attendee Lance Taschner, vice president of software engineering at Wipit, told ...

"Moving beyond this status will require most departments and agencies to overcome significant obstacles and challenges, such as organizational parochialism and cultural resistance, inadequate funding, and the lack of top management understanding and skilled staff," Valerie Melvin, director of information management and human capital issues at GAO, told the E-Commerce Times...

While we're getting out of the recession woods, we can still see the trees right behind us. Companies cut staff to the bone during the Great Recession. You can talk to any developer, and they're all producing more with less -- fewer people on their team, less access to tools, and less domain experience on the OSes they're trying to target...

Both allowed companies to markedly increase system TCO by getting 1) more value out of existing IT assets; 2) out from under costly proprietary hardware platforms and software licenses; and 3) additional leverage from the existing skills of IT staff SeaMicro hopes to do the sa...

The journal boasts a prestigious editorial staff that includes Sir Roger Penrose, an Oxford University astrophysicist and one of the world's leading cosmological experts. Nonetheless, it's being attacked as little more than a junk science repository by other scientists, including University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers. ...

BTM provides the end-to-end transactions flow perspective, so it ensures that when any problems are detected, the right IT staff can fix the problem immediately without losing sight of any transaction. The EUEM on the other hand, known for detecting application performance pr...

One site, Mahalo, was hit so hard by the new algorithm that founder Jason Calacanis reportedly laid off 10 percent of its staff Calacanis did not respond to requests for comment by press time....

Business attitudes toward telecommuting tend to be polarized between love and hate. For example, some companies have embraced it to the point where they've been able to move to smaller offices because they don't need desk space for full-time telecommuters. Yet other businesses are still uneasy about not having their workers on-site, even when there's a short-term weather-related emergency. These firms fear that telecommuting employees may spend more time on distractions like TV or the laundry than they will on their work. Meanwhile, other businesses worry that they won't be able to control their staffers if they don't have face-to-face contact each day. ...

Personnel: Here you should not only show your staffing patterns, but you should also display a flow chart of how the authority of the company will flow from the board of directors to the executive team and, from there, to the various departments, such as accounting, sales, marketing, production, etc...

Aberdeen's 2011 Sales Intelligence research will determine to what extent the top-performing sales organizations have led the way in using smarter, more automated and user-friendly ways to filter only the most relevant data to their teams, while erecting effective barriers to keep the flood of unnecessary, irrelevant and time-consuming chatter away from quota-carrying staff. ...

A personal phone number is then assigned to the device, eliminating complex login procedures or the need for staff members to get a new contact number each time they come to work. Mobile Device Checkout also allows simultaneous logins to clinical applications, such as asset management...

Undeterred, the researchers have turned to options unavailable to Pons and Fleischmann, including a digital dandy: their own online Journal of Nuclear Physics, which they've staffed with an advisory board that includes Naval Postgraduate School physics professor Michael Melich, Ph.D.

A staffer from Shift Communications, the public relations agency manning the press room booth and running PR for RSA 2011, said signs announcing that Friday afternoon's keynote was closed to the press had been posted in the press room and elsewhere at the convention Silence Is...

Nearly 80 percent of Top Performers cite "information sharing" as a key element: Without information sharing, collaboration is a superficial exercise if participants withhold important data to try to either control the direction of the project or to claim credit for its success. The more deeply ingrained information hoarding is, the greater the need for managers to set the new standard and be seen to share more detailed information with each other and with their staffs.

This is the most basic obstacle that derails CRM -- employees who aren't really invested in the customer. If your staff has this attitude, it doesn't matter what kind of data you supply them with -- it won't be translated into actions that maximize sales and stimulate loyalty unless you, as a manager, provide them with exhaustive and meticulous directives -- an effort that will ultimately collapse over time...

Apps are available for mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android. Salespeople can take these portable devices and mobile platforms on the road. Companies are embracing mobile technology and equipping their sales staff with mobile devices instead of laptops, he added...

ListManager 11 has also upgraded its HTML Editor -- a boon for less-sophisticated users who don't have an IT staff on hand, noted Carlson. The new editor lets users create documents directly in Word and then change them into HTML.

Finally, almost half of the Best-in-Class (46%) have a process in place to automatically push BI reports to mobile devices on a pre-determined schedule. After initial configuration, this capability can serve basic management information to business management without additional workload being placed on IT staff. This is ideal for organizations that need to generate routine reports on a recurring basis and distribute them to users on the move. Examples would include daily customer project updates, manufacturing performance or inventory levels. The alternative to the automated distribution of routine information is to manually refresh each report and distribute it -- a process which inevitably requires some intervention by the IT organization. Only 23% of all other enterprises have this capability...

I'm referring to recent changes in the law that has occurred as a result of the HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health). The HITECH Act, a part of 2009's economic stimulus act (i.e., the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), includes requirements for the folks you'd expect: "covered entities" like healthcare providers, health insurance companies, clearinghouses, etc. However it also defines requirements for other folks too -- folks you might not intuitively expect. Specifically, it extends security requirements to "business associates" -- the vendors, service providers, consulting/staffing companies, and other partners that handle patient data and medical records on behalf of covered entities. ...