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The firm revealed Wednesday that following a year-long informal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the handling of certain stock options grants, the company received a Wells call on Aug. 9 from the Staff of the Division of Enforcement at the SEC. The notice indicates that office plans to ask the SEC for the authority to seek a civil monetary penalty against Take 2, and invites the company to take steps to fend off that action...

"The government is hoping to avoid accountability for spying on millions of AT&T customers," EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston told the E-Commerce Times A vigorous hearing in the courts would be part of the "system of checks and balances that is supposed to thwart abuses of po...

"The government is hoping to avoid accountability for spying on millions of AT&T customers," EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston told the E-Commerce Times A vigorous hearing in the courts would be part of the "system of checks and balances that is supposed to thwart abuses of po...

"The government is hoping to avoid accountability for spying on millions of AT&T customers," EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston told the E-Commerce Times A vigorous hearing in the courts would be part of the "system of checks and balances that is supposed to thwart abuses of po...

Gamers can also now take their football savvy into the administrative side with Front Office Mode. They can build their own state-of-the-art stadium, set concession prices, hire coaching staff, draft players and essentially control every component of their NFL franchise form the top down...

WikiScanner, developed by California Institute of Technology graduate student Virgil Griffith, traces the IP addresses that get stored when anonymous editors make their changes to Wikipedia articles and links them back to the organizations they came from. So, if U.S. Senate staff members were to repeat the editing efforts they undertook last year to remove information that made certain senators look bad, for example, everyone would know it...

TechNewsWorld: Social engineering was also addressed at the conference. An IT staff can do everything in its power to secure the network with technology, but it also depends on the rest of the staff to stay in a security-focused mindset. Is there anything you feel that can be done to better train a firm's non-technical personnel to keep security in mind as the go about their day-to-day work?...

He gives the example of an office on a relatively low-speed circuit that called in at 9 a.m. to report that the circuit had been slow since staff started arriving around 7 a.m. Looking at the bandwidth graphs showed that the bandwidth was saturated. Clicking into Scrutinizer then showed that it was Windows updates that were scheduled to occur at that time...

"A lot of the security incidents we see these days are because developers haven't been burned," Jason Lewis, systems architect atSoteria Network Technologies, told TechNewsWorld "This also applies to IT support staff -- if I'm aware that FTP (file transfer protocol) has a remote exploit, I'm going to remove the service from my system. The idea that not talking about a vulnerability will keep people safe is naive."

Still, Gartner realized that widespread end user adoption will raise the pressure on IT staff to fully support the iPhone. In fact, if a given IT group is forced to make an exception and support the iPhone, Gartner recommends that the IT staff place the device into a "concierge-level support" in order to deliver hands-on support ... and then pass the cost for support on to the end user who requested it...

"There's a community of people who really care, and want to help, but they want to do it on their own terms, to be listened to, to take action in a leadership role. Campaigners have sort of a mindset of controlling everything, having a staff and knowing what's best," he explained. "With the netroots community, it's that the wisdom of the crowd is smarter than any one person, and as long as you can capture the wisdom of the crowd, and the activity of the crowd, you can achieve greater things than if you were just relying on three or four of the smartest people in the room."

The doctors allegedly wrote prescriptions that were inappropriate or dangerous for a particular customer on some occasions, and in some cases, orders were never reviewed by a doctor at all, but were instead approved by a nonphysician member of the Affpower staff who had allegedly stolen the identity of a licensed physician and issued prescriptions in his or her name...

Technology has finally made its impact on medical practices. In order to achieve greater efficiencies within their office and administrative staff, many physicians have now gone from paper to computer. Additionally, diagnoses and delivery of quality patient care are greatly enhanced with the assistance of technology...

First, by replacing the 3,900 servers -- each of which requires it own power supply -- with the 30 mainframes, IBM expects to save enough electricity "to power a small town," the company said. Second, because the new mainframes will contain far fewer processors than the 3,900 servers do in aggregate, there will also be a reduction in the costs for software, which is often priced on a per-processor basis. Finally, IBM also expects the new infrastructure will free its staff from many systems administration tasks...

Storage is a particular pain point in many organizations, said DiDio. Most companies see their storage needs double in any given year, even if staffing remains static, she explained. Those enterprises implementing bandwidth-intensive applications that include streaming media can see storage needs grow much faster. Thus, being able to dynamically configure virtualized storage is an important capability to allow IT groups to first optimize infrastructure use and then limit expenses associated with expanding it...

An integral piece to a virtual call center is a distributed agent strategy, one that meets the staffing requirements of a call center by blending some combination of home-based agents and offshoring Sixty-three percent of Aberdeen survey respondents are currently supporting a ...

"Section 230 has been uniformly interpreted as a firm decision by Congress to adopt a non-regulatory approach regarding online information intermediaries. The language of the statute and the legislative history supports those determinations," EFF staff attorney Matthew Zimmerman told the E-Commerce Times...

"So after discussions within the Novell senior executive staff, including CEO Ron Hovsepian, we reached the decision that 'loaning' Markus to the LF was a great approach," he added As as part of the deal, The Linux Foundation gets an "extremely well-qualified senior executive,...

You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million...

EULAs have been used "to require users to sign away their fair use rights, such as the right to reverse engineer," Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) staff attorney Corynne McSherry told the E-Commerce Times. "Essentially, companies are using contract law to trump basic IP (Internet protocol) protections for users -- often without users' knowledge."