Google Apps Gets E-mail Security, Compliance Google Apps Premiere users are already reaping the benefits of Google's purchase of Postini, according to PCWorld.com. Though the per user/per year price will stay at $50, customers will have access to Postini security and compliance features - including enhanced message filters and a whitelist.Postini functionality will also allow corporate users to block outgoing mail containing keywords or...... Similar Editorial : See No Google by Michael Cheney. | Source : Firewalls Network Security
E-Discovery: It Is All About Retrieval Brokerage firm Morgan Stanley recently paid $12.5 million to settle charges that it failed to disclose e-mail in arbitration and that it falsely claimed the messages were destroyed in the September 11 attacks. The case illustrates the importance of litigation readiness. And as this Metropolitan Counsel piece points out, the challenges corporate counsel face in dealing with the new e-discovery...... Source : Emerging Technologies
Sarbox Costs: They Are What They Are Kurt Schacht, managing director of the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, has one thing to say to businesses that are still concerned about the cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, according to Financial Week: “Get over it.”I have to agree. (If memory serves, I posted about a small biotech company that said the same thing here.) As Schacht told Financial Week:Companies have to...... Similar Editorial : Costs Associated With Kitesurfing by Jakob Jelling. | Source : Emerging Technologies
NYSE Euronext Lists $78 Billion In IPOs Globe and Mail reported over the weekend that NYSE Euronext won the war for initial public offerings in 2007. Citing Bloomberg data, the story says the transatlantic exchange listed $78 billion in IPOs in the U.S. and Europe, as opposed to the $52.2 billion in IPOs listed on the markets of the London Stock Exchange.Competition between the U.S. and London exchanges has been stiff since Sarbanes...... Similar Editorial : One Point Two Billion by tony dean. | Source : Emerging Technologies
Accounting Regulators Clear Path To Standards Convergence In an effort to further facilitate the move from Generally Acceptable Accounting Standards to the International Financial Reporting Standards, the Financial Accounting Foundation board of directors has cut two positions from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, effective July 1.CFO.com reports the foundation also voted to give more power to the standards board's chairman:Another of the most...... Similar Editorial : Cadillac Window Regulators by Glady Reign. | Source : Information Technologies
Record Retention And Sarbanes-Oxley Chances are, if you work for a private company, you don’t think about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 very often. It applies to publicly traded companies, right? Well, yes — the provisions that evoke the most comment and criticism apply to public companies. But there are other sections that apply across the board, according to a National Law Journal article published at law.com.Robert D. Brownstone...... Similar Editorial : Employee Retention by infocus. | Source : Technology Marketing
Experience Counts When Selecting A VAR Question: What should SMBs look for when selecting a value-added reseller?Speyer: SMBs should look for prior experience, especially when it comes to application deployment and integration. Vertical industry knowledge is also important. Take, for example, a mid-market company that wants to have a reseller do a virtualization project for it. It makes sense to find a reseller that has done this kind...... Similar Editorial : Real Estate Credibility Counts by Shareen Aguilar. | Source : Technology Marketing
Sun's Phipps: Novell Has A Big Problem Last week in my "Not Just Linux" blog, I pointed to a Linux Foundation podcast in which Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian sharply criticized Sun Microsystems‘ open source strategy and questioned the viability of the Solaris operating system. Not surprisingly, Sun took issue with his statements, as is evidenced by Patrick Finch's blog post on the subject.To get Sun's side, I talked to the company's chief...... Source : Technology Marketing
Sun: OpenSolaris Is Now On The Map Question: Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said in a Linux Foundation interview recently that Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris aren't going anywhere. I would venture to say that you don't agree, but do you want to elaborate?Phipps: Well, as it stands, the very fact that the question was asked at all says that something has changed and that OpenSolaris is now on the map. The comments that Novell's executive...... Source : Technology Marketing
Microsoft Wants OSI Approval Of Shared Source Licenses Yes, you read that correctly. Microsoft announced at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference last week that it will be submitting its "shared source" licenses for certification by the Open Source Initiative as true open source licenses. Redmond's Bill Hilf called the move "the culmination of Microsoft's growing engagement with the open source world."On Port 25, Microsoft's Jon Rosenberg wrote:…[I]f...... Similar Editorial : Shared RSS by Andrew J. Morris. | Source : Microsoft Office Student Edition
Wanted: A New Approach To Open Source In Business When the Free Software Foundation released version 3 of the GNU General Public License in June, most in the open source community knew it would make ripples — and maybe even require significant changes to the way open source companies do business. But, perhaps naively, we didn’t expect it to cause quite as much fuss as it has.Microsoft has declared — in just so many words — that it is not a party...... Similar Editorial : Manuscripts Wanted by Vic Peters. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
Standards Organizations And The Neighborhood Bully It doesn’t take much for Microsoft to make the news these days. Sometimes it’s good, many times it’s not good, and when open source is involved, it usually gets downright ugly.But the latest scuffle involving Microsoft and open source raises a different set of questions. Last week, Microsoft’s bid to have its Office Open XML document format ratified as an ISO standard suffered a setback when the...... Similar Editorial : Diversity and Bully by Deb Capone. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
Research Shows Internal Audit Getting Back To Basics Just like Sarbox is no longer at the top of CEO priority lists, it is also becoming less of a focus for internal auditing departments, according to a new survey from Protiviti.According to CNNMoney.com:Twenty-four percent of companies report their internal audit departments have achieved "rebalancing" - a renewed focus on their traditional responsibilities that is balanced with compliance...... Similar Editorial : Back to the Basics by Diane Hughes. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
Sarbox Delay Does Not Mean 'Take It Easy' Smaller companies may be able to breathe a little easier now that they don't have to worry about external auditors checking out their internal controls until 2009. However, the delay doesn't mean they should sit back and do nothing.Small Business Times writer William Gienke says small public companies should take advantage of the extra year the Securities and Exchange Commission has given them to...... Similar Editorial : Flight Delay by Wayne and Tamara. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
OpenSolaris OS Beta Now Available In 2005, Sun Microsystems formed the OpenSolaris open source project to build a development community around its Solaris operating system. Monday, the company announced that a beta version of the OpenSolaris operating system is now available.According to company information, the operating system is available at http://www.opensolaris.com/ and at Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)....... Similar Editorial : Beta Factors by Andy George. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
