ANTenna Blog -- September 20, 2009 - September 26, 2009 Archive

Online Bank Fraud: 5 Riskpoints Your Business Needs To Worry About

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:35 PM ET | Sep 25, 2009

How much do you know about the security habits, practices, technologies policies of your business's online bank and other financial services and institutions? Odds are, if Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics is right, it's nowhere near enough.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Banking/Insurance | IT | Operations | Security

How To: Fix High-Capacity Hard Disk Formatting Problems

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 03:02 PM ET | Sep 25, 2009

Thinking about a storage upgrade using one of the latest monster-sized hard disks? I have a tip to share that might save you a lot of trouble.

Secrecy Is A Stupid Way To Sell Software Security

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 03:48 PM ET | Sep 24, 2009

It makes my day when someone out to "expose" the flaws in open-source software ends up doing exactly the opposite.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Open Source | Security

Spammers To Idaho: You're The Tops!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:10 PM ET | Sep 24, 2009

Spam targeting is one of those categories you don't want to be Number One in, but somebody has to be. According to a new report from MessageLabs, the top spam targets in the U.S. live in Idaho. But the rest of the states aren't that much better off.

Document Imaging, 90 Percent Off

Posted by Jake Widman 02:54 PM ET | Sep 24, 2009

Document Imaging Solutions, Inc., is making 50 copies of its DIS-Imaging Enterprise Edition, which normally sells for $26,000, available for $2,400 -- a discount of more than 90 percent. The offer is limited in time and number of sales, though.

Protecting Laptop Data: New bMighty How-To Guide

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:33 PM ET | Sep 23, 2009

The data on your company's laptops may be your firm's most vulnerable asset. But the latest addition to bMighty's IT Management How-To Center can show you how managed laptop data-encryption and backup services can safeguard that data even if the laptop itself goes missing.

Credit Card Compliance Still Poorly Practiced

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:46 AM ET | Sep 23, 2009

A new survey from Imperva and the Ponemon Institute finds that despite the rising number of data breaches, many companies still do not fully adhere to compliance standards. And many of those that are protecting credit card information are neglecting security when it comes to other, equally sensitive data. Smaller businesses may be having the most trouble with the standards.

The Search For A Perfect Corporate Password Policy

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:25 PM ET | Sep 22, 2009

What qualifies as a safe and sane password policy for your business? A recent blog post serves up some interesting answers to this question.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Security

Oracle Accelerate Adds MidMarket BI, CRM On Demand, And More

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:26 PM ET | Sep 22, 2009

Oracle Accelerate, the company's 3-year-old effort to address midsize companies, has extended its tool set to include Demantra for advanced demand planning, Agile for product lifecycle management, Siebel CRM, and Transportation Management. And the apps will now be available via SaaS as well.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software | IT | Transportation

Google Pushes Further into the Enterprise

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 04:34 PM ET | Sep 22, 2009

E-mail has become the lifeblood for many companies. Increasingly, employees are traveling outside of the corporate office and need ways to stay in contact with it. In response, Google broadened the reach of its Google Apps, so they can now exchange information with Apple iPhones and Windows Mobile cell phones.

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Messaging | Mobile

The Power To Cloud Men's Minds

Posted by Jake Widman 08:29 PM ET | Sep 21, 2009

Will Apple take on building a business mobility support system in the cloud? Here's why they won't, and why they shouldn't.

SaaS Holds Big Appeal For Midsize CIOs

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:13 PM ET | Sep 21, 2009

"Two years back, I thought [SaaS] was the stupidest thing. But we've finally started seeing some applications that make sense," says Peter Larsen, manager of information technology at National Frozen Foods in Seattle.

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Software-as-a-Service

New Avaya Unified Communications System For SMBs Focuses On Role-Based Solutions

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:53 PM ET | Sep 21, 2009

Avaya IP Office Release 5 offers small and midsize businesses 6 different versions of UC for different kinds of workers, from telecommuters to customer service agents.

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Unified Communications

FCC Chairman Endorses Net Neutrality Concepts

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 03:22 PM ET | Sep 21, 2009

The battle between Internet Service Providers and consumer advocacy groups reached an important milestone. New FCC chairman Julius Genachowski threw his weight behind initiatives designed to prevent ISPs from blocking or penalizing bandwidth intensive traffic, such as video files, and ordered them to manage their networks in a more transparent manner.

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