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It was bad enough that Microsoft recently laid off 1,400 employees. Now the software giant has sent letters to some of those former workers letting them know that their severance payouts were a bit Read more...

A survey of IT experts by ISACA, an independent IT governance group, revealed that 43 percent of their organizations had recently killed an IT project. The study highlighted the top five reasons Read more...

Spam is everywhere--even on your cell phone You thought you had wrestled spam to the ground, and maybe you have on your computer system. But now comes a new trend reported by the New York Times that Read more...

A new study shows that more than half of the 85,000 H-1B visas in 2006 were issued to Indian nationals--accounting for 54 percent of these highly desirable one-year visas. Other countries ranked far Read more...

A new report from Internet Security Systems says that this year's bug number could hit a record high of 7,500 bugs based on the fact that the current count is at 5,450--already 300 over last Read more...

While the HP scandal is still in full throttle, with recent indictments and its former chairwoman going Read more...

To describe Freddie Mac as being on the warpath to IT innovation would be an understatement. The mortgage financing company, which just three years ago was under congressional scrutiny for Read more...

Internal security risks are often cited as the biggest site of exposure for enterprises. Now, new tiny storage devices are making the potential for data theft even more likely. According to a new Read more...

Any organization that isn't working hard to protect staff, client and customer data might want to check out the latest figures on identity theft coming from the government. Approximately 3 percent Read more...