Previous
Who Is At Risk From Cyberattack?
News However, IT security firm Symantec attributes the high instances of cyberattacks in this sector to attacks against non-profit activist groups -- as diverse as animal rights organisations, lobby groups and software communities.
[February 5, 2003, 15:21]
Will Policy Makers Use Long Range Forecasts?
White Papers There are hundreds of policy research organizations in government at all levels, in corporations, academia, and in the non-profit sector, all doing long range forecasting of, or predicting, the direction of one or another issue or trend.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
E-Recruiting For Government And Non-Profits
White Papers A common misperception is that the public and non-profit sectors are not in competition with the private sector for talent. Public sector non-profits have the opportunity to take lessons from the best private sector practices, and attain a real...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Novell Case Study: RedSpider
White Papers RedSpider is a system designed by the IT departments of several non-profit community colleges in the Netherlands, and now runs identity management systems for 12 colleges, representing around 30 percent of the sector.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
FAS Gov And Southern Hospitality - Both Popular In Slidell, La.
White Papers It provides easy-to use fixed asset accounting and reporting for state and local government, school, and non-profit organizations needing effective decision-making tools for integrated accounting environments.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Demand For US Immigrant Work Visas Rises In 2001
News Many of the applications in the past year have been for visas in universities, government agencies and non-profit groups, an INS representative said on Tuesday. A large percentage of the foreign workers are exempt from the cap -- including...
[January 23, 2002, 15:12]
US And EU Clash Over Internet Control
Talkback Same as a lot of pieces of US infrastructure are handed over to a US based non for profit groups, created by the government, to oversee their operation. If the Chinese government made a declaration that it was wanting a voice in the non for profit...
[October 8, 2005, 4:10]
Information Technology: Exploring The Electronic Future
White Papers In partnership with the private sector, non-profit organizations, other government entities and Virginia Tech, use technology to expand community cohesiveness, to take advantage of new technological opportunities, to enhance public services, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
San Diego County's Innovation Program: Using Competition And A Whole Lot More To Improve Public Services
White Papers This report focuses on the lessons learned during the first year of welfare-to-work managed competition in San Diego County, California, where for-profit, non-profit and government organizations competed for welfare-to-work case management service...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Economic And Legal Considerations Of Optimal Privatization: Case Studies Of Mortgage Firms (DePfa Group And Fannie Mae)
White Papers Bank behavior changes rapidly as profit maximization replaces the bureaucratic objective function. This resulted in suboptimal financial sector performance. Therefore, privatization is a one-time (non-reversible) operation.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Charities A Soft Target For Hackers
News More than a third (38 per cent) of charities have suffered a virus attack in the past year, according to research from Charity Finance, a journal for the non-profit sector. Many charities and voluntary sector organisations are struggling to guard...
[May 11, 2006, 10:10]
Indian Outsourcing Set To Grow
News Nasscom, a non-profit organisation with 900 members, lobbies with the Indian government and promotes the Indian IT sector abroad. While the Indian IT industry is growing at an impressive 30 percent per year, the BPO sector is growing at 70 percent...
[January 29, 2003, 14:15]
Chip Market Grows In Europe
News The WSTS is a non-profit body representing about 90 percent of semiconductor manufacturers. The chip sector continued a slow recovery in July, largely helped by growth in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, according to new figures.
[September 3, 2002, 16:00]
MandrakeSoft Sees Revenues Jump
News MandrakeSoft launched its user club in March, but some industry observers said the scheme seemed more appropriate to a non-profit organisation than a private business. At the time of the club's launch this spring, MandrakeSoft said it expected to...
[July 23, 2002, 12:05]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
News The UKUUG bills itself as a non-profit organisation and technical forum for the advocacy of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the promotion of open-source software, and the advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols.
[January 27, 2004, 14:55]
Tesco's Online Sales Soar To Nearly £1bn
News Sales at tesco.com grew by 31.9 percent year-over-year to almost £1bn, and now account for three percent of the company's total UK sales, while online profit also increased by 54.9 percent to £56.2m. We are by far the largest in the world in our...
[April 25, 2006, 15:55]
Military Spectrum Eyes Civvy Street
News The Bandsharing Forum is a non-profit organisation funded by its members. Large swathes of radio spectrum bandwidth currently managed by the military and other key services should be opened up to other departments and even the private sector...
[September 18, 2006, 17:20]
Leader: 1999 - An Interesting Year Ahead For Intel
News Despite the odd profit warning, Intel remains a powerhouse which is several times larger than its rivals and hugely profitable to boot.should be interesting. Cyrix, AMD and newcomer Rise are only now making concerted stabs at the mobile sector.
[December 21, 1998, 12:20]
Dell Plans Relentless Diversification
News The company's refusal to use traditional resellers, distributors or the retail channel (though it once toyed -- disastrously -- with the latter) has allowed it to maintain profit margins, a unique feat among the leading global PC makers these days.
[January 30, 2003, 8:23]
Struggling Baltimore Cuts Jobs As Losses Grow
News Baltimore has invested heavily in public key infrastructure (PKI) technologies, but its failure to turn a profit is indicative of the slow uptake of PKI by industry. See techTrader for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector.
[August 22, 2001, 9:18]
