Month: November 2006

Apple Computer has shipped a monster security update to correct a total of 22 vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system. The Cupertino, Calif,

Despite consumer—and even some IT executive—beliefs that e-commerce poses a much greater security risk than store-based point-of-sale systems, a new Gartner report concludes that the

In 2006 alone, retailers lost almost $2 billion because of consumer security fears, with about one-half of those losses ($913 million) coming from people who

Two key e-commerce leaders—Wal-Mart and Macy’s—found themselves shut out of the online portion of the holiday sales rush for much of Friday, as their sites

Today, business intelligence involves more than just fancy reporting tools used by corporate analysts. A new wave of workers–from sales to logistics–are using software applications

The idea that the Internet could fail never crossed my mind until Oct. 21, 2002. As acting CIO of NASA, I was informed that a

Quick. See if you can name the third biggest enterprise software company in the world. SAP and Oracle have the top two spots nailed down,

Back in July, Valassis Communications, a marketing services firm that’s one of the biggest coupon distributors in North America, announced “exciting” news: It was planning