The accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services was 40 percent larger than what the Indian software company’s former chairman had said, the Central Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday. Investigators found 28.09 billion rupees, or about $607 million, in additional accounting fraud at Satyam, V.V. Lakshmi Narayana,...
If it ever was a question, 2009 put an end to any doubts about the resiliency of IT. Navigating severe budget cuts, unanticipated reorganizations, and quickly evaporating revenue opportunities across most markets in the wake of financial turmoil, IT retrenched, pushed ahead, and launched new endeavors...
LinkedIn is hoping to let its users tap into their professional network across the Web. On Monday, LinkedIn will make its technology available to software developers who want to use it in their own sites and applications. By incorporating information about someone’s professional profile and connections,...
Can an employer read a worker's email? Businesses certainly have the technical capability to look at the emails sent from their computers, whether it's transmitted through a company or a private email account. The question really is whether an employee can have any expectation of privacy? It...
Now that we’ve all actually seen Chrome OS, the immediate reaction that most are jumping to is that it won’t be killing Windows anytime soon. Obviously. But that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt Microsoft, and apply long-term pressure to the dominant OS. In fact, Google’s...
Patients who received bone marrow stem cell transplants during coronary bypass surgery (CABG) experienced "excellent long-term safety and survival," say German researchers, who also noted the first promising results for stem cell transplantation during mitral valve repair. The study included 35 patients who received CD 133+...
What's the future of ERP? What kind of a silly question is that, you may be asking yourself. First off, predicting the future—especially in the technology world—is a fool's errand, best handled by Ouija Boards and IT analysts' dartboards. And isn't the future of ERP...
A new survey finds Wisconsinites pay more for health insurance than the rest of the country and the cost is rising at a faster rate. The consulting firm Mercer finds employers and their workers in Wisconsin paid an average of nearly $11,000 per employee for health...
Ahead of a U.N. summit in Copenhagen next month, scepticism is growing that an agreement will be reached on a global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The protocol set targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which are believed...
The 1990's saw business IT move from mainframe computing to client-server setups—an architecture that reduced costs and enabled true, workgroup computing. The tradeoff, however, was hard-coded stacks of hardware, middleware, and applications that were inflexible and difficult to modify. Now, the market is moving beyond client-server...