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Companies fight to protect cookies
News Big companies are fighting to hang onto their cookies, although not strictly out of sensitivity to Web privacy -- they want the juicy consumer data for themselves. Realising that there can be valuable marketing insight in precisely how many...
[March 20, 2000, 12:32]
Companies choose not to pick up a penguin
News Linux penguins are bleating louder, but companies don't plan to adopt many of them in the near future. Broadly speaking, the results were unsurprising: Corporate tech budgets aren't expected to increase in 2002; big technology companies such as...
[November 7, 2001, 12:45]
Companies trust Euro encryption over US products
News The majority of global businesses questioned said that, even though US firms will soon be able to export encryption of a comparable strength, they would be more inclined to trust cryptographic solutions from European companies.
[February 11, 2000, 13:27]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
News An attack on corporate use of peer-to-peer software is under way, as companies face increasing pressure from record labels and other copyright holders to stop employees from file trading. The latest salvo against companies came last week, when the...
[March 19, 2003, 14:40]
Implement CRM or Become Customer-Centric?: Companies Face a Choice
White Papers The findings of a new research study titled "Customers Say What Companies Don't Want to Hear," draw a clear distinction between CRM as it's commonly practiced and customer centricity. Are CRM and customer-centricity are mutually exclusive?
[July 25, 2006, 3:16]
Companies look to recycle PC cast-offs
News National governments in Japan and a number of European countries have started demanding that those companies that make and sell electronic devices take responsibility for them when they reach the "end of life" stage -- that is, when an outmoded PC...
[October 15, 2001, 11:57]
Companies want Web 2.0 tech from bigger vendors
News The IT research company surveyed 119 chief information officers at companies with more than 500 employees and found a strong appetite for Web 2.0 technologies, including software for blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking and content tagging.
[March 23, 2007, 8:25]
Companies urged to tell customers of data breaches
News UK companies should warn customers if their personal data has been put at risk, according to the National Consumer Council. Speaking at a Westminster eForum event, Anna Fielder, a policy consultant with the National Consumer Council (NCC), said UK...
[July 17, 2007, 14:31]
Companies losing track of IT assets
News Carl Greiner, senior VP at industry analyst META Group, believes that it's a worldwide problem as companies have a knee-jerk reaction to try and control costs the best they can. According to Greiner, companies of all sizes are grappling with...
[August 29, 2002, 9:32]
Companies Find Faster Call Resolution Key to Cost Center Profitability
White Papers As companies face a backlash against offshore call centers, or are simply finding it was not the right solution for their particular business, they are bringing service back to the U.S. This doesn't need to be cost-prohibitive however.
[July 14, 2006, 0:00]
Companies brace Wall Street for Q4 results
News With only a week into the fourth quarter, the number of companies that have already rejigged their financial forecasts — even before they've reported their third-quarter results — has gone up twofold, according to a company that tracks earnings...
[October 7, 2008, 8:47]
Companies increasingly monitoring email
News The report, released on Monday by email security specialist Proofpoint, said 36.1 percent of companies employ staff to monitor email today, with another 26.5 percent saying they intend to employ such staff in the future.
[June 9, 2005, 12:40]
Companies 'not liable' for Code Red attacks
News Companies that inadvertently spread the Code Red worm to other corporate servers cannot be held liable for causing an Internet attack, say British legal experts. The self-propagating worm, which resurfaced on Wednesday, had raised concerns that...
[August 2, 2001, 14:18]
Companies showcase online safety gadgets and software
News A handful of software companies are ringing online privacy bells as the holiday season approaches, urging consumers to give themselves the gift of Internet anonymity before venturing online to shop. Privacy companies were out in force Monday night...
[December 6, 2000, 10:42]
Companies trip up on log tests
News In the event of a security breach, the vast majority of companies would find that the logfiles their systems keep are not good enough to nail the trouble, according to a European security testing firm.
[November 13, 2002, 14:48]
Companies find silver lining in compliance cloud
News Legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley may be major headache for IT departments but some companies are beginning to realise that compliance can be an opportunity to streamline inefficient processes according to business intelligence specialist Hyperion.
[April 13, 2005, 9:10]
Companies increase IM surveillance
News I think all these companies are seeing great demand," said Katherine Egbert, an analyst with Jefferies & Co. As more and more companies install monitoring software to track employee activities -- threatening to turn desk areas into no-privacy zones...
[October 26, 2004, 15:45]
Companies fight IM malware with honeypots
News America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo are supporting a partnership of three security companies who are attempting to thwart instant messaging malware. It'll allow companies a very quick way of identifying emerging threats on the Internet and security...
[December 7, 2004, 12:45]
Ensure staff comply with hands-free law, companies told
News UK companies and mobile workers are being urged to ensure they are ready to comply with strict new legislation governing the use of mobile phones in cars. Laws coming into effect on 1 December will effectively make it illegal for drivers to so much...
[November 4, 2003, 16:25]
Companies rethink customer data privacy
News Companies are scrambling to ensure their online privacy policies do not run afoul of the sprawling investigation into last month's terrorist attacks, a move that could prompt some to rewrite their published statements, privacy experts said.
[October 2, 2001, 14:30]
