SOURCE: USA TODAY Can money buy the Beatles' Apple love? By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Search any fee-based digital music service for the best-loved musical artists of the 20th century and most of the expected names show up. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Sinatra are all accounted for, with their complete catalogs available per song, at 99 cents apiece. There are holdouts, but none bigger than the best-selling recording group of all time: the Beatles. That c...
SOURCE: BNET e-Medicine Is Bigger Than Google While all the attention about the e-World has been focused on the selling of Google stock, what will impact you far more are the significant advances in e-Medicine. First, a tip of the hat to Google. I use it, almost exclusively, for web searching. This has been the case for some time, although I fondly recall the days of Alta Vista, Excite, Northern Light, and all the rest. And from time to time I'll enjoy an offbeat search engine li...
SOURCE: CorpLawBlog A Light Touch, After All With distance comes perspective. For instance, before my vacation from Corp Law Blog I was leaning towards the view that the Sarbanes-Oxley/Spitzer response to a few aberrant cases of financial fraud was getting a little heavy-handed and hysterical. Then, when I read that Jamie Olis had been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole, I was sure that things had gotten out of hand. But with my newf...
SOURCE: PRWEB Many Falling Short On The Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (PRWEB) September 21, 2004 -- The Sarbanes-Oxley Forum (http://www.sarbanes-oxley-forum.com) reports that almost 50% of organizations still haven't developed plans to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Their onsite survey, of over 2000 different o...
SOURCE: BNET SOX insights from an IT auditor By Jeff Davis In this column, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Nick Edmunds. In his role as senior IT auditor for a Fortune 300 company in the food services industry, Mr. Edmunds has spent the majority of his time in the past year on ensuring his company's compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. I managed to hijack a bit of Mr. Edmunds' precious free time to talk about his experiences and recommendations to fellow internal auditors. He...
SOURCE: CNET IT Physical Security in Mission-Critical Facilities Source: American Power Conversion Physical security — controlling personnel access to facilities — is critical to achieving data center availability goals. As new technologies such as biometric identification and remote management of security data become more widely available, traditional card-and-guard security is being supplanted by security systems that can provide positive identification and tracking of human ac...
SOURCE: NETSCAPE Money and Business Multiplayer Games Coming to Cell Phones By MATT SLAGLE AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability. The newest twist is multiplayer: You can face real people in space battles or fishing tournaments. Until recently, multiplayer on cell phones game meant at most posting high scores on a leader board. It's difficult to co...
SOURCE: FOOL.com Is This Taser for You? By W.D. Crotty September 15, 2004 Taser International (Nasdaq: TASR) is soaring today after the announcement of its new X26C Citizen Defense System for "private citizens seeking responsible, nonlethal self-defense protection." For a mere $999, the company will sell you six cartridges, a 40-minute training video, and a certificate for "one free in-home professional training session." This weapon is sold exclusively by Taser, which elimin...
How does businesss and marketing effect Christmas? This has been a disscussion over the past 10 or 15 years and it only get stronger as mass consumption becomes more and more common place. With discount stores and areas of shopping putting up their 'Christmas' lights even before Thanksgiving now, the question become that is business trying to squeaze to much shopping out of people without moral standpoint? I believe marketing and advertising can and will have to take a better role in human li...
SOURCE: Inc.com Self-Employment Up for Women and Ethnic Groups A study released by the SBA's Office of Advocacy reveals significant increase in the number of self-employed women, blacks and Latinos. By: Carole Matthews December 6, 2004 --Between 1979 and 2003 the number of self-employed women, blacks and Latinos has risen sharply, according to a report released on Dec. 2 by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Overall, a 5% increase in self-employ...
For me, this is something I realized over the course of these past few years. Good guys don't finish last, they finish first. Its hard to see that most of the time. As someone who has just entered the coprate world I have been exposed to a lot of coruption. Not just the regular political "I know him" and "we are buddies" type of game that goes o everywhere, I am talking about straight out revenge, bad management, harrassment, dangerous actions and so on. What I didn't see until recently is th...
Yup, that's right, if you get a Yahoo News feed to your blog or website, you might wan to think again and make sure that feed doesn't have an ad in it. Granted, if the ads are actually related to the news feed and have HELPFUL infomation content then I would be glad to have it because its not some 'dummy ad' that just says, "Look at me, I am selling something!" That would be insane and make many people (including me) very cross. Not a totally thought out idea I think. I...
SOURCE: Karvard Business School Working Knowledge The New CEO's Wrong Message November 1, 2004 Any new CEO who tries to wield power unilaterally will pay for it, according to Harvard Business School professors Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, and Nitin Nohria. An excerpt from Harvard Business Review. by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, and Nitin Nohria Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine ...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com AT&T looks into closing its Windows Published: October 5, 2004, 2:09 PM PDT By Martin LaMonica Staff Writer, CNET News.com Network services giant AT&T is evaluating different operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, as alternatives to Windows for internal use. The company's chief information officer, Hossein Eslambolchi, has set up a team in AT&T's research labs to assess the appropriateness of desktop operating systems for the company...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Real carves out new business unit Published: September 23, 2004, 11:01 AM PDT By Dinesh C. Sharma Special to CNET News.com RealNetworks is combining its RealPlayer software business with its music services business to create a single division, led by Vice President Robert Acker. The new division will look after music and video products and services, including RealPlayer software, the RealPlayer Music Store, RadioPass and the Rhapsody music subscription ...