Federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies issued proposed guidelines Tuesday to require financial institutions to develop programs to respond to incidents of unauthorized access to customer information, including procedures for notifying customers under certain circumstances. The proposed guidelines interpret the…
“Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy” was the title of a great article in The Washington Post earlier this month. It examines the privacy policies of a number of Web companies. In some cases, the Post found businesses clearly violate…
Even consumers with several years of experience online continue to cite security and privacy features as a key factor in the decision to spend online, according to a new study by MasterCard International, lending weight to recent analysis suggesting financial…
With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosting a three-day “Spam Forum” beginning Wednesday, lawmakers are using the spam spotlight to grab their own political publicity. While the FTC plans to listen, the politicians are jockeying into position to tell Americans…
ASP customers are happy and likely to continue using application outsourcing services, according to a report released today by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), an Arlington, Va.-based trade group that serves the IT industry.
This is the final installment of a three-part series on how corporations are breaking up their internal technology monopolies. In part one, we looked at some of the broader trends changing the IT spending landscape. Part two discussed the growing…
This is the second of a three-part series on how corporations are breaking up their internal technology monopolies. In part one, we talked about how many organizations are discovering, in most cases, their own IT monopolies are no match for…
For a period of nine or 10 days, America Online users were unable to post messages to the venerable USENET distributed discussion system, apparently due to a technical problem which prevented messages from propagating beyond AOL’s news servers. Other AOL…
Once, not long ago, though strong technical skills didn’t necessarily guarantee employment, they clearly made a techie a highly marketable commodity. In the brave new world of declining IT budgets (in corporate communications jargon, “negative technology spending growth”), technical staffs…
Almost two weeks after rolling out a wireless home networking offer for business users, Verizon is going to do the same for consumer digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers. Verizon officials will make the announcement as early as Monday, and unlike…