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Proposed E.U. data rules include 2 percent fine for lost data
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
Microsoft confirms BPOS data breach
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has confirmed that a data breach took place on its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) cloud service. Essentially, company data belonging to customers of Microsoft's
Europe, United States eye tighter online privacy rules
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
Dell refreshes Vostro laptops
Sure, old Walt Mossberg might not like Dell's Vostro line of SMB-tailored PCs much , but maybe you do. If you
IT execs fail to embrace SaaS
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
Going green? Cut down on electric bills
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
Dell Inspiron 1525 gets Ubuntu
If you run the sort of IT department that likes to deploy Ubuntu machines to end users, you'll likely be happy to hear that Dell is expanding their pre-loaded Ubuntu program this week with a new
Warning: cyber-espionage on the rise
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
Microsoft Vista stalls in the enterprise
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
Standardize the system
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
