August 30, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
As the U.S. economy continues its sluggish recovery and worker morale sinks, the IT department needs to pay attention to moves that make users even more dissatisfied. One thing that’ll be sure to put ‘em in a bad mood: website blocking.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blocking, Robert Half Technologies, survey, users, website, workers
August 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The phenomenon that is Twitter has confounded many scientists and the marketers that depend on them to figure out what makes a messaging system powerful. Now it seems some HP researchers have solved the mystery.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: HP, influencers, power, study, tweets, Twitter
May 28, 2010 by Sam Narisi
Hackers are targeting Facebook full force — and given the amount of time folks spend on the site while they’re at work, that means your company’s network could be at risk.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Facebook, hackers, malware
April 12, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A proposed Australian government regulation to block Web sites with information for the elderly on committing suicide has proponents of euthanasia fighting back. How? By teaching the target audience how to hack Internet filters.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amazon, books. online, Dr. Philip Nitschke, e-publishing, etuhanasia, Exit International, The Peaceful Pill
March 29, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Criminals are successfully attacking small and mid-size company bank accounts at an unprecedented rate. On top of this, banks aren’t doing as much as they could to intercept fraudulent activity or reimburse customers who are victims. The result:
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cybercrime, fraud, Guardian Analytics, online banking, Ponemon Institute
March 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Interested in hanging onto your IT job? For a lesson in how to lose it, consider the plight of Pennsylvania’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who got canned after four years on the job for allegedly speaking in a public forum about a security breach of the state’s online drivers’ test scheduling system.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: chief information security officer, firing, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Robert Maley
March 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
In its glory days, nobody ever thought eBay would hit a slump — especially not in a recession when everybody needs a good deal or wants to unload stuff and raise cash. But eBay did, slump that is, in recent months. And with profits sinking and its market share shrinking, the company’s recasting its online presence: It’s going green.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Ebay, green, Greenpeace, marketing, technology
March 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Does playing a violent video game really make players more prone to be violent in real life? That’s a question that’s been batted about (no pun intended) for decades, since the first electronic game systems hit the market. The answer?
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Craig Anderson, Iowa State University, study, Video games, violence
February 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
A massive Nielsen survey has asked consumers the burning question many Web site content providers are dying to hear the answer to: Will you pay for the news and entertainment you now get online for free?
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: consumers, content, Nielsen, pay, survey
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Businesses on the East Coast got a taste of what a small natural disaster can do to productivity and communication when back-to-back blizzards struck. The heroes of the week — besides road crews and power company employees? Companies with telecommuting programs.
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
