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Public Cloud Services Are Simultaneously Cannibalizing and Stimulating Demand for External IT Services Spending – Gartner Study

November 19, 2012

Public cloud services are simultaneously cannibalizing and stimulating demand for external IT services spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) adoption — the most basic and fundamental form of cloud computing service — has expanded beyond development and test use cases. More...

The American Lawyer Tech Survey: CIOs Back Personal Devices, Pan Windows 8

November 16, 2012

Large law firm Chief Information Officers are supporting their lawyers’ use of Apple and Android personal devices for firm business, as 88 percent expect to provide less BlackBerry support over the next 12 months, according to the annual survey of law technology in the November issue of ALM’s The American Lawyer and online at americanlawyer.com. More...

Cloud Security Survey Reveals Lack of Business Policies Governing Rogue Cloud Usage Even as Data Protection Remains Highest Concern with the Cloud

November 8, 2012

New research tracking trends and issues in cloud security revealed a growing gap between actual business cloud practices and related IT policies. The survey found that while nearly 20 percent of businesses have no clear security policies or standards around employee or departmental use of "cloud," the majority do allow employees to use cloud services and access corporate data from cloud applications or connected devices. More...

Corporate Law Departments Push Alternative Legal Services Model That Includes Use of New Technology

November 7, 2012

Corporate law departments report that they are re-negotiating outside counsel fees, shifting work to lower-priced law firms, increasing in-house capacity, opting for alternative service providers and using new technology — all to develop a more cost-effective legal services model — according to over 200 General Counsel who participated in the Altman Weil 2012 Chief Legal Officer Survey. More...

Cloud Customers Need to Ignore Patriot Act Scare Stories, According to New IDC Study

October 25, 2012

According to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC), end users' concerns over foreign governments' access to cloud data, particularly data stored in the U.S., are misplaced. More...

Tracking Software Company Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers and Failed to Safeguard Sensitive Data it Collected

October 24, 2012

A web analytics company has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by using its web-tracking software that collected personal data without disclosing the extent of the information that it was collecting. More...

FTC Recommends Best Practices for Companies That Use Facial Recognition Technologies

October 23, 2012

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday released a staff report "Facing Facts: Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies" for the increasing number of companies using facial recognition technologies, to help them protect consumers’ privacy as they use the technologies to create innovative new commercial products and services. More...

Software and Biotech Firms Grab Big Chunk of Venture Capital Funds as Deal Volume Shrinks in 3Q 2012

October 19, 2012

Venture capitalists invested $6.5 billion in 890 deals in the third quarter of 2012, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. More...

New Features of Cyber Planner Unveiled Today to Offer Better Protections for Nearly 83% of U.S. Small Businesses With No Cybersecurity Plan

October 18, 2012

As part of National Cybersecurity Month, Chairman Julius Genachowski of the Federal Commmications Commission (FCC) unveiled an updated 2.0 version of the Commission’s ‘Small Biz Cyber Planner,’ a free and easy-to-use online resource for any small business owner who wants to better protect their business from the growing threat of cybersecurity attacks. More...

Major Progress Achieved in Usage-Based Alert Program to Protect Mobile Consumers from “Bill Shock”

October 17, 2012

Chairman Julius Genachowski of the Federal Communications Communications (FCC) announced today that participating U.S. wireless companies have met or beat the deadline to provide wireless customers with free, automatic usage-based alerts when they approach or exceed plan limits for data, voice and text – as well as alerts for international charges. More...