Small businesses voice election concerns, seek policy clarity
Howie Jones May 8, 2024 8:49 am
Read More 
Menu
Menu
If Chris DeVoney hustles, he can stay one step ahead of the hackers he fears are going to steal patient records. But he doesn’t dare rest. He is the computing director at the clinical research center of the University of Washington Medical Center. In the past year, he has patched
Cigital chief executive officer Jeffery Payne likes to deliver good news to his customers first, when possible: that their systems are 100% secure. But, sometimes, he has to deliver bad news as well. That the software is totally unreliable. “People are worried about security, but in the end the problems
As hackers continue to take shots at Microsoft business software, you’d think companies would analyze what it would cost to move other operating systems, such as Unix, Solaris or Linux. But calculating the expense of such a move costs money as well.Cendant Hotel Group, which runs about 1,850 Windows servers,
What did Jeff Cohen do when he learned his company was planning to have its technology department report to sales and marketing? He left. Cohen, the former chief information officer for JetBlue Airways Corp., left the airline last July, after learning that the technology department would shortly begin reporting to
It’s time for a change or two. Or six. Fundamental problems with the way organizations develop software go, if not ignored, largely unaddressed for far too long. Instead of refusing to employ flawed software, buyers accept bugs, vulnerabilities, corrupt files, system crashes and unpredictable behavior as a cost of business.
Date Deaths Detail 2003 3 Software failure contributes to power outage across the Northeastern U.S. and Canada. 2001 5 Panamanian cancer patients die following overdoses of radiation, amounts of which were determined by faulty use of software. 2000 4 Crash of a Marine Corps Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft partially blamed on
There can be as many as 20 to 30 bugs per 1,000 lines of software code. —Sustainable Computing Consortium There are no methods of removing software defects or errors that are 100% effective. —“Software Quality: Analysis and Guidelines for Success,” by Capers Jones 32% of organizations say that they release
Victor Garcia considers himself lucky to be alive. Three years ago, a combination of cancer and miscalculation almost killed him. The former distribution manager for fragrance maker Chanel now can feel the hot Panamanian morning sun stream through his living-room window. He can smell lunch cooking in the kitchen. He
The early returns are in and no voter fraud has been discovered in the wake of Maryland’s first statewide use of touch-screen electronic voting machines, which took place during the Democratic primary on March 2. That’s a good thing…right? Maybe not, says the expert who outlined several specific steps Maryland