A Pew Internet and American Life Project studying who uses broadband at home found that • Roughly one-quarter -- 27%-- of U.S. adults are not Internet users. • 43% of those who don't surf are over the age of 65. • 43% have household incomes under $30,000 a...
To compensate for the Gmail outage embarrassment this week, Google on Wednesday launched a new dashboard to provide its users with more information about the status of its products. The outage, Google explained Tuesday afternoon, was the result of some buggy code that was introduced at...
There are spots of trouble, however. As the largest provider of software as a service, Salesforce.com's financial performance is a bellwether for how well SaaS is doing in the tough economy. The answer: very well, but with a few areas of concern. Salesforce announced net income of...
Google the phrases job hunt and black hole and you'll turn up 55,700 results. The reason for this confluence of terms, as any job hunter will tell you, is that applying for a position increasingly involves two phases. Step one: Use the employer's online application center...
With leaner work forces, slower sales and tighter budgets, managers and executives need to motivate their employees to do more with less, according to Suzanne Bates, president and CEO of Bates Communications. Monetary incentives such as raises and bonuses are in short supply. Managers and...
The Madison City Council voted early Wednesday morning to approve an application for federal funds to grow the city's bio-agriculture industry, but held off on committing any of its own dollars yet. After debating a bus fare increase for more than six hours, the council took...
Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks “get” the business? How do we achieve “business-IT alignment”? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only “get” the business, they are the business. The business of IT is...
WASHINGTON – Health spending will hit $2.5 trillion this year, devouring 17.6 percent of the economy, as the White House and Congress consider major changes to the healthcare system, U.S. government economists said on Tuesday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS, forecast...
As the clouds started gathering over the economy this past fall and winter, I heard the drumbeat grow louder from my security contacts who all gave the same warning: layoffs are going to exacerbate security problems. As pink-slipped workers start thinking about looking after number one,...
CUPERTINO, Calif. — For the last nine months, Apple has refused to get into specifics about the well-being of its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, even as he said last month that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to deal with health problems. On...