Study: Audits of Individuals Up Last Year (AP)
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Study: Audits of Businesses Down Last
Year (AP)
Study: Audits of Businesses Down Last
Year (AP)
04/11/2004 09:03 PMAP - The Internal Revenue Service audited fewer corporations, small
businesses and partnerships last year but more individual taxpayers,
according to a study of government data.
Year in review: Chipmakers a study in
contrasts
Year in review: Chipmakers a study in
contrasts
12/19/2004 03:03 PMCNET News.com Dec 19 2004 12:15PM GMT
Study: 2004 was 'turnaround' year for
telecom industry
Study: 2004 was 'turnaround' year for
telecom industry
02/01/2005 09:41 PMThe U.S. telecommunications industry appears to have come out of its
slump from earlier this decade, with spending projected to grow 9.5
percent a year from 2004 to 2008, according to a study released
Tuesday by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
3-Year Federal Study of 9/11 Urges Rules
for Safer Towers
3-Year Federal Study of 9/11 Urges Rules
for Safer Towers
06/22/2005 02:54 AMA panel will call for changes in the planning, construction and
operation of skyscrapers, according to officials and draft documents.
Most retail industry players spending
little on RFID this year, study says
Most retail industry players spending
little on RFID this year, study says
05/17/2004 04:40 PMInternetRetailer.com May 17 2004 8:04PM GMT
Study Details Three-Year High-Tech Job
Bust in United States
Study Details Three-Year High-Tech Job
Bust in United States
09/11/2004 07:43 PMLinux Electrons Sep 11 2004 11:11PM GMT
SAP IS-U/CCS: Audits und Manahmen zur
Optimierung
SAP IS-U/CCS: Audits und Manahmen zur
Optimierung
01/16/2004 11:03 AMmarcus evans Jan 15 2004 2:28AM GMT
PC security audits for businesses?
PC security audits for businesses?
11/06/2003 03:52 PMLawmakers unveil a draft of long-awaited legislation that would
require U.S. corporations to certify that they have conducted an
annual computer security audit.
Tech Tips to Minimize Tax Audits
Tech Tips to Minimize Tax Audits
02/18/2004 09:30 PMInternet.com Feb 19 2004 0:13AM GMT
Automating system security audits
Automating system security audits
07/10/2004 01:16 AMSunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:24AM GMT
UK cold on mandatory security audits
UK cold on mandatory security audits
12/08/2003 03:29 PMZDNet UK Dec 8 2003 1:06PM ET
Groups, Individuals or both?
Groups, Individuals or both?
07/28/2004 02:54 PMJon Udell had an
interesting post on Shibboleth, which is an authentication system
for the Internet2 (among other applications....)
I met the Shibboleth folks at last year's DigitalID world. They're
doing real stuff.
Anyway Jon brings up the notion of group identification, as opposed
to individual. My feeling - is that we want - both!
Here's
Jon's post....
In last week's column, I suggested that individuals and
corporations should be the authoritative sources of basic
information about
themselves. That way, if an application needs my name, address, and
phone
number, I can refer it to a source that I control and guarantee to
be correct.
But how many applications really need my name, address, and phone
number?
Capturing the identity of individuals, along with personal
information about
them, has become a habit. In a climate of increasing concern about
privacy,
it's a bad habit we must learn to resist. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
As I mention in this week's column, the notion of selective
disclosure is a
core value of
href="http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/">Shibboleth, an Internet2
project
that's gaining some real traction in the higher-ed world.
What's up with the name 'Shibboleth'? Here's the scoop:
A shibboleth is a kind
of
linguistic password: A way of speaking (a pronunciation, or the use
of a
particular expression) that identifies one as a member of an 'in'
group. The
purpose of a shibboleth is exclusionary as much as inclusionary: A
person
whose way of speaking violates a shibboleth is identified as an
outsider and
thereby excluded by the group. (This phenomenon is part of the
"Judge a book
by its cover" tendency apparently embedded in human cognition, and
the use of
language to distinguish social groups).
The story behind the
word is
recorded in the biblical Book of Judges. The word shibboleth in
ancient Hebrew
dialects meant 'ear of grain' (or, some say, 'stream'). Some groups
pronounced
it with a sh sound, but speakers of related dialects pronounced it
with an s.
[Suzanne
Kemmer]
The federated identity system called
Shibboleth deals
with group membership, rather than individual identity. It's
interesting to
think about use cases, outside higher ed, that don't require the
identification
of individuals. Consider website registration. The
New York Times, or
InfoWorld, or other
media
sites that want to qualify readers to their advertisers, don't really
need to
know me as an individual. They just need to aggregate readers into
groups. From
the Times' perspective, I'm a member of the group of American male
writers who
work in Media/Publishing/Broadcasting and who read the Times regularly
but do
not subscribe. From InfoWorld's perspective, I'm a member of the group
of
consultants (Technical) working in the area of Tech: Publishing who
strategize
about (but do not directly purchase) IT assets.
What if it were possible -- and convenient -- to affiliate with
these groups
without giving up personally identifying information? In reaction to
registration regimes that are too granular, the bugmenot.c
om
hack abolishes granularity. But maybe there's a middle ground.
[Jon
Udell]
Open Source CVS Flaw Sparks Use Audits
Open Source CVS Flaw Sparks Use Audits
06/10/2004 04:01 PMAfter new breaches found in CVS, open source community mulls how
extensively they use the online repository.
DVD publication taking off for
individuals
DVD publication taking off for
individuals
05/24/2004 12:59 PM
The New York Times reports on the rapid growth in DVD
publication, especially for small groups and individuals.
Independent filmmakers, specialty magazine publishers, artists,
educators - all those with a video to sell, no matter how narrow the
niche - are turning out DVD's and distributing them through the mail.
It's a trend that began in the era of videotape but has accelerated
with DVD's because they are inexpensive to duplicate and ship.
Next-generation tech: Individuals first
Next-generation tech: Individuals first
11/10/2003 11:11 PMSiliconValley.com Nov 10 2003 3:36PM ET
Microsoft Audits UK Council To Prove
Cost Effectiveness
Microsoft Audits UK Council To Prove
Cost Effectiveness
10/30/2003 04:50 AMRIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the
Courtroom
RIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the
Courtroom
08/21/2004 11:00 AMSlashdot Aug 21 2004 3:24PM GMT
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every
10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.
Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every
10,000 individuals may be neurotypical.
09/14/2004 01:54 AM
neurodiversity
An amazingly wide and varied site which began as a
collection of articles about Autism but
which has expanded to survey such varied topics as left-handedne
ss, gender and
sexual orientation, hysteria, and a
fascinating collection of articles on "Neurotypical
Issues." Hours and hours of material from a wide variety of
viewpoints. Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up
to Individuals
Ancient Wisdom: Leave the Decisions Up
to Individuals
04/08/2005 03:34 PM
 The Idea: Open Space offers
a process for decision making that is the exact opposite of that used
in most Western organizations: A collective understanding emerges from conversations,
and individuals are then
entrusted to decide what should be done.
One of the things that really
struck me in my recent conversati
on
with Chris Corrigan about Open Space meeting protocols, Appreciative
Inquiry ("discover pattern, dream/envision, design, do") and the Four
Practices ("opening, inviting, holding/making room,
acting/practicing")
was how it turns the hierarchical business model of doing things on
its
head. In business, the decisions on what to do are usually made by a
few 'experts' (executives, specialists etc.) and then those decisions
are carried out (if they know what's good for them) by everyone else.
Here's how Chris & Michael explain the process of acting using Open Space: "It is the
personal and individual (I, me, my) pursuit of the good that
we invite,
in the space that we provide." The
knowledge and understanding that prompts the decisions on what to do
come from collective
activity, and the decision about precisely what to then do is entrusted to each individual. The
individuals who are (if the process has gone well) inspired to action
have the context
to know best what exactly should be done in their own area, community,
job, or situation. In business, the 'experts' cannot hope to have the
Wisdom of Crowds (all of the individual knowledge and context of
everyone affected), and hence are prone to make wrong, even
dysfunctional decisions. The frustrated, untrusted employees are
forced
to implement these decisions, or quit, or, as more often happens, find
'workarounds' that allow them to implement what they know really needs to be done without too
obviously ignoring the instructions from the top.
The result in business (as I keep saying) is that things are the way
they are for a reason -- and usually the reason is that the
knowledgeable employees have brilliantly found a way to do what needs
to be done while still appearing
to be conforming to the relatively ignorant and often
counterproductive
instructions from the boss. It doesn't take new employees long to
catch
on to this incongruity between what actually happens on the front line
and what the manuals, directives, plans and organization charts would
have you believe are happening. In fact the whole new field of
'cultural anthropology' in business entails spending enough time to
study this incongruity, and gently and sheepishly report back to the
executives, experts, specialists and consultants the perfectly good
reasons why their advice and instructions are being ignored.
Only a few organizations (Semco
and WL
Gore
are reputedly among them) actually use the Open Space approach to
run their operations. This is, after all, scary stuff for
executives who get paid to make good, tough decisions. Yet most tribal
communities (other than those that have been coerced into using
Western
governmental structures) have used the Open Space approach
successfully
for tens of thousands of years. In Open Space cultures nobody tells you what to
do.
Why do our business, social and political organizations ignore this
obvious wisdom? Is it arrogance on the part of the executives? Is it a
means for 'experts' to justify their large salaries? Are line staff
complicit so they can always say they were just following orders when
things go wrong? How and why did the mistrust and disempowerment of
the
front lines arise? Is it because modern organizations, public and
private, are just so big they have become unmanageable, and
command-and-control is hence a charade to avoid acknowledging the
endemic reality of inefficiency, disconnectedness, distrust and chaos
in big organizations, to their customers and other stakeholders?
Diagram above: The 'classic'
decision-making process, adapted from NASA.
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N. Korea Acknowledges Intellectual
Property Rights of Individuals
N. Korea Acknowledges Intellectual
Property Rights of Individuals
01/22/2004 04:56 AMYonhap News Jan 22 2004 8:05AM GMT
A new style of trading for both business
and individuals on the internet has
arrived
A new style of trading for both business
and individuals on the internet has
arrived
08/28/2004 02:37 AMsellitbuyitswapit.com brings no cost listing for business's on the
internet, a very small percentage fee is payable when you sell an
item.For individuals low cost listing fees coupled with no final value
fees means more of the sale stays with the lister. [PRWEB Aug 28,
2004]
E-Mail Security Services for Small
Business and Individuals
E-Mail Security Services for Small
Business and Individuals
01/07/2004 01:53 PMA number of vendors offer managed e-mail services for enterprise.
However, now individuals and small businesses owners can find services
for spam and virus protection, and at a very reasonable cost.
Music Industry to Target Individuals
Following File-Sharing Ruling?
Music Industry to Target Individuals
Following File-Sharing Ruling?
08/20/2004 09:56 PMA federal appeals court rules that makers of two leading file-sharing
programs are not legally liable for the copyrighted works their users
swap online. The decision is likely to force the industry to take the
more costly and less popular route of going directly after
file-swappers.
Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters)
Japan prince absolves individuals over
wife's woes (Reuters)
06/08/2004 07:29 AMReuters - Japan's crown prince says he had not meant to single out any
specific culprits
when he complained -- in words that rocked the royal court and public
-- of pressures on his wife, but
he added that steps were needed to make her life more bearable.
Caught by the Act: Digital Copyright Law
Ensnaring Businesses, Individuals Over
Fair Use
Caught by the Act: Digital Copyright Law
Ensnaring Businesses, Individuals Over
Fair Use
11/12/2003 01:08 PMWashington Post Nov 12 2003 7:24AM ET
ETECH Notes: Surowiecki on Independent
Individuals and Wise Crowds
ETECH Notes: Surowiecki on Independent
Individuals and Wise Crowds
03/17/2005 03:56 AMCory Doctorow:
Here are my notes from James Surowiecki's
In
dependent Individuals and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too
Connected?, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San
Diego.
Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and
How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and
Nations is meant to be quite good -- it's sitting in my pile of
things I need to read as soon as I get a chance. Based on his talk, I
think I might bump it up a couple of positions.
Wisdom of crowds works on problems where there's a true answer,
or when some choices are better than other in some Platonic
sense. The reason this works is that people are operating on
private info, which may be bad or fragmented.
The opinions are diverse -- not consensus but disagreements.
People don't know much about what others are betting on or
guessing -- not a lot of interpersonal interaction.
Compare with Linux: large group of people working on problems,
but ultimately one person writes the code that gets committed.
The decision is centralized: one or a small number of people get
to commit code to the kernel.
Compare with ant-hill: Often a metaphor for human behavior. How
to use a bunch of dumb agents (ants don't know much) whose
interaction produce stunningly intelligent results, e.g. finding
food with least amount of energy. E.g. ant graveyards and food
supplies are equidistant.
Ants follow simple rules and pay a lot of attention to those
around them: interaction is the essence of intelligence. The only
way to get where they want to go is by paying close attention to
one another.
Here's my message: HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT ANTS. We do not have the
biological programming or tools to allow this kind of interaction
to produce intelligence. We don't have the ability to sense or
secrete formic acid.
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"Annenberg study finds "Daily Show"
viewers to be more knowledgeable about
election year issues than viewers of
network news or newspaper readers"
"Annenberg study finds "Daily Show"
viewers to be more knowledgeable about
election year issues than viewers of
network news or newspaper readers"
09/27/2004 02:37 AMDubai eGovernment to conduct usability
audits to ensure uniform standards for
government departments' websites
Dubai eGovernment to conduct usability
audits to ensure uniform standards for
government departments' websites
07/21/2004 08:13 PMAME Info Jul 21 2004 11:36PM GMT
MediaLive International Establishes
Independent Consortium To Standardize
Event Audits - The IT Event Measurem
MediaLive International Establishes
Independent Consortium To Standardize
Event Audits - The IT Event Measurem
10/30/2003 11:47 PMCOMDEX Oct 28 2003 3:47AM ET
Recycle for Breast Cancer Now Helps
Individuals and Businesses Recycle
Laptops and Digital Cameras
Recycle for Breast Cancer Now Helps
Individuals and Businesses Recycle
Laptops and Digital Cameras
03/22/2005 04:25 PMRecycle for Breast Cancer adds two more products to its recycling line
of e-waste. In addition to cell phones, PDAs and printer cartridges,
RFBC is now accepting laptops and digital cameras. [PRWEB Mar 21,
2005]
Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year
Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year
04/27/2004 10:22 AMNational Post Apr 27 2004 2:06PM GMT
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
01/25/2004 03:03 PMForward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te
Forward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te
04/11/2005 10:52 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 11 2005 2:12PM GMT
Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year
Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year
01/03/2005 05:55 PMInternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 9:36PM GMT
Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma
Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma
05/25/2004 11:41 PMInternetRetailer.com May 26 2004 4:11AM GMT
Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year
Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year
01/16/2004 11:33 AMApple captured 3.2 percent of the U.S...
Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half
Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half
08/17/2004 05:43 PMInternetRetailer.com Aug 17 2004 9:36PM GMT
2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS
2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS
12/19/2004 03:36 PMPaddling Out
to Catch the Enterprise Wave
"From the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making
their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors
positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a
lot of tiny dots...." [MoonWatcher]
RSS was big in 2004, but next year is going
to be something else. It's killing me that I can't say more, but I
know of two major library vendors that will make big announcements
about RSS in 2005. It's going to be a fun year!
Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse
Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse
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