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If someone were to ask you, "What are the most important financial controls for a small business?" what would your answer be? This article looks at the minimum monitors that must be in place in order to protect and preserve the assets of a business. What you should aim to achieve is to have a system...

Microsoft formally asked a European court to toss out a requirement that it share expanded portions of the Windows source code, the opening salvo in what analysts say is shaping up to be another epic battle with antitrust regulators. In the first of what is slated to be a two-day hearing before the ...

The U.S. government decided recently to negotiate with, rather than litigate against, the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda (both referred to as Antigua) over the issue of online gaming. This decision came about after the U.S. lost an arbitration proceeding under the trade dispute resolution ...

In an effort to make its flagship software affordable enough to ward off open-source competitors and squelch piracy in a key overseas market, Microsoft announced plans to release a scaled-down and low-price version of Windows XP in India. Microsoft said it would make Windows XP Starter Edition avail...

Shares of Google, the world's most-used Internet search engine, may continue to rise as the company boosts advertising revenue, research analysts at securities firms that underwrote Google's public offering said after they were cleared to publish reports on the company. Google, whose shares are up 4...

Computer Associates International today said it will lay off 800 workers worldwide in a restructuring plan it said is designed to more closely align its investments with its strategic growth opportunities. In issuing a statement announcing the action this morning, the company said the effort is expe...

Now all you need is a good idea to make some good money. You can start right away by getting a dot-com domain name registration for a year for much less than US$1 a month, and get a sparkling Web site for under $5 per month. For an additional $3 a month, get an encryption capability on the same site...

Online attackers today are using popular sources of pornographic images to target a recently revealed weakness in Microsoft software and to spread a Trojan that can provide remote access and control of infected computers. Just two weeks after Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in virtually all vers...

Amazon.com and Microsoft have joined forces for what they described as a "wake-up call" to spammers, filing lawsuits seeking damages from defendants they say sent millions of pieces of spam and attempted phishing and spoofing against the two companies' customers. The companies together sued a Canada...

Labor market conditions can change dramatically in a few months. As American firms become increasingly dependent on labor market conditions in other parts of the world, changes in those labor markets can have profound economic consequences in the U.S. Here we examine the rapidly changing IT labor ma...

The Internet has delivered dramatic productivity improvements. Executives now have a simple way to exchange electronic mail messages, large and small companies are able to market their products worldwide and corporations have replaced manual procedures with automated ones. Along with these advances ...

A surge in demand for personal computers from business users has prompted research firm IDC to raise its forecast for overall sales for 2004, with the firm now predicting that sales will grow more than 14 percent over last year. However, sales in the U.S. are actually falling short of targets. IDC s...

In a move that deals a blow to a line of chips for which Intel once had high hopes, Hewlett-Packard has said it had stopped selling workstations loaded with the 64-bit Itanium 2 processors. HP said only that it was responding to "customer requirements" in the workstation space in making the move. HP...

The Internet has topped television as the first choice of media by 18- to 54-year-olds, according to a study released today by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). The Generational Media Study -- the fourth in a series of research reports aimed at providing a detailed view of 18- to 34-year-old ...

Microsoft is taking flack for saying it won't offer some key security patches and upgrades for older versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, some of which are still widely used, that are available as part of its much-ballyhooed Service Pack 2 update. In a move that some observers say is desi...