Monthly Archives: January 2010
Legal Pitfalls in IT Outsourcing: How to Minimize Transactional Costs
Anyone who has gone through the process of securing an IT outsourcing deal for their application development management, help desk, data center or network...
IBM Unveils Resources to Help Software Partners
According to a Global Business Partner Profitability Survey conducted by Ronin Corporation and commissioned by IBM, 60 percent of IBM Software partners said they...
Apple iPad’s Price Puts It Within Reach of Small Businesses
After months of waiting, the Apple tablet, now officially known as the iPad, was released with much fanfare. Touted as a "magical and revolutionary...
Twitter Local Trends Now Live in 15 Cities
Twitter's popular trends feature has gone local, tracking tweets and conversations that are rising high in 15 cities.U.S. city coverage for Twitter's new Local...
LG-Nortel, Accton Sign Joint Venture Agreement
LG-Nortel, a Korean global telecommunications solution provider, and Accton Technology, a Taiwanese global telecommunications equipment company, announced they signed an agreement to form a...
Google Airs Privacy Principles, Sets Itself Up for Ridicule
You can bet that any time a company such as Google announces anything having to do with its privacy, it's going to cause privacy...
Verizon Expects to Cut 13,000 Jobs in 2010
As part of its Jan. 26 earnings announcement, Verizon said it expects to lay off 13,000 more employees to help alleviate diminishing revenues. While...
Critical Infrastructure Security a Mixed Bag, Report Finds
A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies highlights the financial damage of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure, but also paints a...
Unnamed App Stalks Facebook Users
Users of social networking sites such as Facebook have been sitting directly in attackers' crosshairs for several years now, and the threats and social...
Inside IronJS: Behind the JavaScript to .NET Project
IronJS is an open-source project working to deliver an implementation of the popular JavaScript Web development language to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Fredrik Holmstrom,...