A recent report by the Ponemon Institute commissioned by Symantec found that nearly 60 percent of departing employees steal company data. Given the amount of information that is electronic it’s not much of a surprise since it is so easy to take data which may be attached to an email
February 2009
Watch Out- Internet 2.0 May be Around the Corner!
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When DARPA started in 1962 as part of the US’s reaction to Russia launch of Sputnik in 1957 no one could have foreseen its evolution to 2009 with FaceBook, YouTube, and Google. A recent article questions whether we need a new Internet since the current hodgepodge is not designed for…
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twitter – Dynamically Growing without a Business Plan
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Notwithstanding all the .com failures over the past 15 years it’s unusual to see an Internet phenom change the waterfront so much as twitter. If you were otherwise not aware, twitter with a member base of about 4 million is a micro-blogging service which limits its messages to 140 characters…
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Digital Britain by 2012?
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The UK’s plan to bring broadband Internet service to every home by 2012 is a very bold plan since based on recent reports only about 68% of the UK population are currently Internet users. In the meantime about 72% of the population of the US are Internet users. However…
VIDEO – Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds
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Check out this WatchIT video about virtual world legal issues. Since major IT businesses (including IBM and Dell) and lawyers now have a presence in Second Life, it’s time you thought about some legal issues.
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