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Under a proposed update to the European Union's data protection law, companies could be fined as much as 2 percent of their annual sales for losing personal data or processing sensitive information Read more...

Recent data breaches at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook have spurred European regulators to call for tighter rules safeguarding private data, reports Eric Pfanner at The New York Times. Burgeoning Read more...

A new Forrester survey finds that a minority of IT executives have embraced Software-As-A-Service (SaaS). The survey of more than 1,000 IT decision-makers in North America and Europe found that only Read more...

If you want to be "green" in your office, you're going to have to do more than use recycled materials. Being green means paying attention to how much your IT shop is spending on electricity and doing Read more...

Cyber-espionage is just one more item that must be tacked onto a CIO's must worry list this year. A new report by the SANS Institute, one of the world's top IT security training organizations, says Read more...

Businesses are bucking any and every trend to move to Microsoft Vista. Almost a year after its release, sales are still sluggish. And analysts say that won't change anytime soon. "From what we've Read more...

Standardization is not a four-letter word in IT. But sometimes it is treated as one. No one is at fault. It is just the way systems have grown. The effort to create a standardized PC fleet is not Read more...

> Indian outsourcing continues to grow despite weaker dollar. Article > R&D Read more...

Robert Willett, CIO of Best Buy, says that he spends 80 percent of his time focused on external customer issues, an area that more and more CIOs are choosing to focus on these days. "We've got to Read more...

> The paperless office, at last? Article > IT risk management Read more...