Carbon accounting software market starts to heat u…

Feb-26th-2010

Computerworld Before 2008, if companies tracked their carbon emissions at all, they poured the data into spreadsheets. But a new category of software, called enterprise carbon accounting ECA, is headed for “explosive growth” this year and next, according to market research by Groom Energy Solutions in Salem, Mass. Despite the recession, there were positive signs [...]

Business culture hinders remote working

Feb-26th-2010

A recent survey suggests that business culture is the main obstacle to reaping the benefits offered by remote working. This is despite the fact that 73 per cent of workers believe they are more productive when working from home, according to the study by vendor Lumison. About 65 per cent of the 1,000 individuals polled [...]

Software asset management can cut costs by 20 per …

Feb-26th-2010

With Scottish rove company Barrhead Travel Services only the latest firm to incur a minute £10,000 from the Business Software Alliance BSA for its appliance of unlicensed software, software asset management has become a greater anteriority for businesses across the board. The company was caught using illicit copies of Adobe software and its fine includes [...]

Cisco refreshes fixed-switching portfolio…

Feb-25th-2010

MUMBAI, INDIA:Cisco today announced the release of Cisco Borderless Access. According to a press release this portion of the companys Borderless Networks architecture comprises products and service innovations that enable seamless and highly secure wired-wireless communications, sophisticated business-wide energy management, and the optimized delivery of video applications. As part of this architecture, Cisco is introducing [...]

New global accounting standard will require it con…

Feb-25th-2010

Computerworld CIOs have a new acronym to learn and fast IFRS. U. S. companies are facing big changes in how they handle financial reporting, with the expected adoption of new accounting rules known as the International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS. And while fiscal concerns generally fall into the chief financial officers domain, the expected [...]

Government admits to bungling firecontrol project…

Feb-25th-2010

The government has admitted that its plan to overhaul the technology behind the Fire and Rescue Service has run into problems because of insufficient planning. The controversial £350m FiReControl programme aims to replace 46 individual fire brigade control centres with nine regional ones. But the scheme is now running almost two years late and the [...]

Cisco unveils top 10 web malware threats

Feb-25th-2010

Cisco Systems and foremost-half review of the most common and frustrating malware unearthed a calculate of old standards Trojans, iframes and worms that are still driving IT administrators nuts and putting attempt and consumer data at risk. But as eSecurity Planet reports, hackers and malware maestros are in reality zeroing in on search engine optimization [...]

Cisco to buy optical network specialist coreoptics…

Feb-25th-2010

Network giant Cisco has agreed a deal to acquire San José-based optical network digital signal processing DSP firm CoreOptics. Cisco service provider technology general manager Surya Panditi said that acquiring CoreOptics would reinforce the firms commitment to its core networking business and deliver IP next-generation networks at 100Gbit/s and beyond. The acquisition will help our [...]

Police hunt for moles with security software…

Feb-24th-2010

The Lancashire Constabulary is to deploy auditing software that will monitor and record all of the data input by its employees in a bid to prevent information being leaked from its intelligence database. The Constabulary will trial 3amis monitoring and audit MAS software client on a limited number of fixed and mobile terminals attached to [...]

Doj tech heavies settle improper hiring case…

Feb-24th-2010

Anyone who keeps tabs ~ward the tech industry knows that competition for top talent is fierce. But thats the free market, right? It is, and antitrust persons in office dont look kindly at companies they see engaging in gentlemens agreements not to hire begone workers from one another, inviting allegations of collusion to keep wages [...]