NEW YORK - A new August online survey conducted by Harris Interactive (in the U.S.) and Opinion Matters (in the UK) detailing workers' views on work email leads to a conclusion that the typical 9-5 work day no longer exists as workers in America and the U.K. regularly check email outside of normal business hours,
STAMFORD, Conn. - Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2010 is forecast to reach $300 billion, a 31.5 percent increase from 2009 revenue of $228 billion, according to the latest outlook by analyst firm Gartner. Analysts project worldwide semiconductor revenue to total $314 billion in 2011, a 4.6 percent increase from 2010. The projected 2010 revenue for
BIRMINGHAM - William Lynn,the US Deputy Secretary of Defense wrote the most succinct description of the US Pentagon Cyberstrategy yet in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Here are the good, the bad, and the ugly components of that strategy. The good. Lynn begins by acknowledging successful cyber attacks against the US military, in particular
WASHINGTON DC - For decades, America's small business owners have asked for more affordable health insurance coverage and more tax relief. The new health reform law ? the Affordable Care Act ? provides both. First, it offers tax credits for small employers who pay at least half of their employees' health insurance premiums. Starting this
WASHINGTON D.C. - Internet2 applauds the Federal Communications Commission's action late last week in announcing the Notice of Proposed Rule Making to modify the Rural Health Care Program. Through the RHCP, the FCC seeks to catalyze the formation of a ubiquitous advanced healthcare network that will serve the national interest by improving citizens' access to
SANTA MONICA, CA - Citing new information about Google's classified government contracts and the Internet giant's admitted Wi-Spying activity, Consumer Watchdog Monday said it is more imperative than ever for the Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct hearings into possible privacy violations by Google. In a letter to Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Ranking Member
KALAMAZOO - Bridget Lorenz Lemberg is a Forensic Toxicologist with more than 20 years of toxicology and pharmacology experience. She is also the founder and owner of one of the fastest growing biotech companies in west Michigan. In 2005, she started Forensic Fluids Laboratories, a woman-owned biotech company that specializes in oral fluid drug testing
WASHINGTON DC - We don't know yet whether whistle-blowing Web operation Wikileaks has hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents provided by U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning or whether it will publish them. But in the meantime Wikileaks' Julian Assange is providing ammunition to those who believe that the fragile new world of
BIRMINGHAM - After a five month period of editing, indexing, and finally printing Surviving Cyberwar has been published by Government Institutes, an imprint of Scarecrow Press, a division of the Rowman and Littlefield company. Here is the story of how and why I wrote a book on cyberwar. The very first presentation I gave as
BIRMINGHAM - In 2001 Ralph Bendrath, a German cyber security writer and researcher, wrote a report that dug into the efficacy of the use of the term cyberwar. His report is remarkable in that most of what he covers ten years ago represents today's state of affairs. Bendrath was writing before 9/11, at the end