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Anonymous bidding can be initiated from Afternic and Sedo on domain names that have not been listed for sale on any exchange. Before it was listed for sale on an aftermarket exchange, I used an anonymous bid to buy InternationalStaff.com. An anonymous bid was used because I was afraid that the original owner of that domain would increase his price expectations if he knew that a sale offer originated from InternationalStaff.net...

If the government wants to look at the contents of someone's e-mail without telling them about it, then it needs to obtain the same authority it needs to physically search private property, maintained EFF Staff Attorney Lee Tien Judge Dlott told the government that "when you'r...

Both companies have built complementary SOA-based systems, which is another important factor in their agreement that should ease system and staff integration efforts going forward, said Reed and Kovacs "Upon completion of the Hart-Scott-Rodino process, the underlying SOA techn...

So the firm, like Yahoo, gets stuck with a lot of projects that look equally high profile, and the executive staff is left to pull the company out of that mess Taking the Peanut Butter Out...

Project the number of positions in each category that need to be included in the assessment. If a business process will be re-engineered during a project to shift the business process to a new location, use updated (projected) position types and staffing levels "Instead of hi...

Low cost of entry. Instead of paying lots of money to roll out a complex solution across the entire company, customers can just roll out one test department of 20 people. The risk is very low if it fails, and they don't have to involve their busy IT staff Onus is on the vendor...

Marking the fifth anniversary of its release, Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios celebrated the birthday of the Xbox video game "Halo" by releasing the beta version of its latest sequel, "Halo 3." The Xbox Live public pre-release precedes the game's final version, which is scheduled for availability in spring 2007 ...

Outsourcing and the establishment of captive customer service operations offshore depend on labor markets to supply qualified talent at affordable rates. Without appropriate personnel, nothing is possible ...

Appro, a Milipitas, Calif.-based provider of enterprise servers, storage and workstations, has announced its completion of the first of four super computer Linux clusters for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ...

NTP is derided by many as a "patent troll," because it does not actually produce technology but instead seeks to license its patents. The company is considered a flashpoint in the intellectual property law community. Its patents were granted and have since been ruled invalid by a PTO staff-level review, casting a complicated shadow over its legal proceedings...

Hotels generally do not employ full-time IT staff, choosing instead to outsource the task of connecting and supporting hundreds of guest rooms with around-the-clock, high-speed Internet access that's robust enough to service conferences, meetings and crunch times. Hotels generally charge between US$10 to $20 a night for speeds that are usually equivalent to a T1 line...

For the record, I am not against hiring people overseas and I do understand that we don't produce enough people with the right qualifications to hire people only here. As a matter of fact, we never have been able to staff all of our innovation with native-born Americans. In just one example, Einstein, Fermi and others who worked on the atomic bomb were refugees from Europe, and we were glad to have them...

Still, the circulation numbers do pose a threat to the industry, which has long relied on them to demonstrate the value of print advertising. As those numbers continue to fall -- circulation peaked at about 65 million in the mid-1980s -- and as papers shift more resources to the Web, many are finding the old economics don't always apply. As a result, many newspapers are laying off staff and the industry is seeing a wave of consolidation and ownership change...

That being the case, college and university IT staff are confronting the challenges of quickly moving up the wireless network learning curve while taking care to secure their institutions' most vital assets: their knowledge and communications Colby-Sawyer College in New London...

Paul English, the wily blogger who gives away company voice mail tips and tricks, can attest to the widespread frustration over customer service. While investors and employees appreciate the relief from staffing burdens that VRU (voice response unit) and IVR (interactive voice response) systems offer, the complex nature of some transactions requires human intervention...

Let's say you have a staff of 50 programmers and none of them wants to work on geezer code Going outside is no good because your business is complex, and knowledge of the systems requires knowledge of the business itself. Here's a plan for redeploying your human assets to maxi...

The Fedora Project, a community-supported open source collaboration sponsored by Red Hat, has released Fedora Core 6, the latest version of its Linux-based operating system ...

Sun Microsystems and theInternet Systems Consortium, a nonprofit corporation that providesinfrastructure for the global Domain Name System, announced Wednesday that the ISC chose the free andopen source Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun Fire x64 server as an F-root server, one of the 13 root DNS servers that form the backbone of the Internet ...

"The right to free speech is one of the core values of this country," said ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Chris Hansen, who is lead counsel on the case. "Congress does not have the right to censor information on the Internet. Americans have the right to participate in the global conversation that happens online every moment of every day."

Pentaho, the maker of an open source business intelligence (BI) suite, last week launched a new release of its Pentaho Dashboards application that provides live and dynamic integration with Google Maps ...