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In addition to a busy beginning of March, many IT staffers in the United States have become occupied with the switch to daylight saving time, which Congress moved forward three weeks this year in order to save energy. Many computer systems don't have the change programmed in and require patching...

Credentials go a long way to build trust. The first time you visit a new doctor's office, you don't know the quality of the staff, but you trust that if they are indeed doctors then they've been officially trained. To back up their authority, doctors sometimes even post framed certificates on their office walls...

"My take is that there's something more at stake here than just a spat between Google and Microsoft," Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times "The bigger question is whether or not you agree with Microsoft that o...

The new system also favors large companies that routinely submit patent applications for approval. These firms can maintain staff to monitor the new system and research prior art to shoot down the applications, Jenkins said Smaller entities like universities or individual inve...

Ten percent of Caucasian American men but less than one percent of women are estimated to have some form of colorblindness. Colorblind people represent a significant but often neglected talent pool and consumer segment. Identifying opportunities to make products usable by as many people as possible, without degrading overall quality or performance, is a quality assurance function that is not always well understood or practiced...

Bangalore, India, is notorious for its traffic jams. As the staff at Infosys has learned over the years, the congestion doesn't end once they pull into the company's headquarters. With more than 14,000 employees, it is one of the world's largest software development campuses. The parking garage is a multi-level, six-story building designed for 1,500 cars...

Therefore, security providers and IT staff across organizations large and small have continued to vet, test and analyze Vista to uncover possible security weaknesses Point of Departure...

Traditionally, preparation for board meetings has involved an enormous amount of time, expense, and stress. There are always last-minute items that have to be incorporated into the board book -- that heavy package that goes to board members and their support staff before a meeting...

Schmelzeisen:The usual metrics [to measure ITSM results] are cost reduction. For example, one of our big customers, DHL, reports 20 percent cost reduction since it implemented their IT processes. We have other cases where they are looking at a total return on investment (ROI) that includes efficiency gains, as well as staff reduction, improved quality. That showed a break-even for one of our clients, Queensland Transport, the government agency in Australia, in the second year, and an ROI of 400 percent in five years...

For some, the idea of carefully controlling elevated privileges within Linux or Unix environments may seem counterintuitive or even draconian because of the perceived distrust of administrators that it implies. While most IT staffers can and should be trusted with this level of access, consider that study after study reveals that insiders are often at the center of security breaches and incidents of data theft...

"Google has been focused on cost-per-click ads with a call to action," Charlene Li, vice president and principal analyst for Forrester Research, told TechNewsWorld. "This is more oriented toward branding. Google has new capabilities and new staff who understand the branding world, not just direct marketing. It's a great way for them to move into the TV space."

Logistics has been a nightmare, and if it weren't for some incredibly heroic efforts by Lenovo's mixed IT staff, it probably couldn't build or report anything timely Lenovo is currently completing a rip-and-replace process with its IT infrastructure, and when it is done, its a...

Microsoft optimized Virtual PC 2007 for Windows Vista so that it is possible to run multiple operating systems on a single PC at the same time. Using Virtual PC, businesses can upgrade to Vista while maintaining the previous Windows environment to run legacy or custom applications in a virtual setting. The newly enhanced tool sports improved performance, hardware virtualization, preboot execution environment functionality as well as support for 64-bit versions of Vista. The tool also provides environments for software development and testing, in addition to multiple operating system scenarios for help desks, support service and staff training...

"Executives are embracing this with more fervor than in years past, but they continue to employ reactive, rather than proactive, strategies to protect their enterprise. They are trying to wrap their arms around an overwhelming task with understaffed IT departments and shrinking IT budgets," Scott concludes. "In those cases, technology tools that automate processes and controls can be an invaluable investment in prevention."

There are other drivers behind the move to large-seat deployments. Some firms with geographically diverse operations prefer the Internet delivery model as a way to unify operations, stated Art Papas, CEO and cofounder of Bullhorn, an on-demand CRM vendor for the staffing and recruiting industry...

Another telecom firm, Motorola, announced in January it would cut 3,500 jobs, and gear-maker Nortel has also laid out plans for more reductions in its staffing levels The recent surge in job reduction announcements come after 2006 saw the fewest layoff announcements in more th...

Expanding further into the commodities markets, management and staff at the ICE and NYBoT are busy endeavoring to make the merger work The ICE-NYBoT combination brings together the two exchanges' complementary line of derivatives contracts -- soft, agricultural commodities for...

Achieving the efficiencies of e-invoicing -- among them financial visibility, reduced invoice cycle time, increased on-time payments, improved cash flow management and accounts payable staffing reductions -- does require some degree of invoice standardization. The buying company needs its invoice data delivered in a certain way...

Reason No. 2: driving outsourcing in the SEM space is the aforementioned staffing problem. This doesn't just strike agencies. Many organizations have had a hard time staffing appropriately. This is exacerbated when you're getting started because you often don't really know what kind of person to hire...

Mozilla employs 100 staff worldwide, but claims a much larger community of volunteers who work on the open source Linux operating system on which Firefox is based The idea behind open source platforms is that users can copy and modify the software freely, while developers pro...