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RSS USHow to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News This allowed us to do the cost reduction program using the information we had about the IT operation," Hayes said at The Sourcing Summit, hosted by the National Outsourcing Association, in London yesterday. [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo The smartbook - a laptop-cum-smartphone - is powered by Qualcomm's 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset and will launch on US mobile operator AT&T's network at the start of next year. This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Apple's latest Big Apple store
Photo Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Except for the marble supporting walls, it's mostly glass, with an all-glass roof. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's iconic logo on... [19 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment One key result is that 71 per cent of European IT and business executives told us that when setting IT and business strategy, they should be tightly integrated. Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global... [18 Nov 2009]
Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News Housed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Jaguar can reach a performance speed of 1.75 petaflop per second. AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world,... [17 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Could losing the office help shake us out of traditional offices and force us to engage with these wider networks? In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices?... [17 Nov 2009]
2009 Smartphone and Carrier Buying Guide
White Paper The real innovation in the mobile phone world is in the area of smartphones where we see the Apple iPhone, Palm WebOS, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows Mobile devices taking us to places we have... [16 Nov 2009]
Convergence of IFRS and US GAAP
White Paper A critically important element in the solution to this problem is the convergence of US GAAP and IFRS, a process now under way at an early stage. Current accounting and reporting practices fall short of meeting the... [13 Nov 2009]
Converting to International Financial Reporting Standards: Planning Considerations for US Tax Executives
White Paper Therefore, as organizations begin analyzing and planning for IFRS, it is important that US tax executives understand the impacts that an IFRS conversion could have on the company's global tax function and begin to plan... [13 Nov 2009]
The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management: (and the Technology That Can Take Us There)
White Paper As the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market has matured, products within the market have lost the ability to quickly respond to threatening situations, and no longer meet the requirement to be a real-time decision... [13 Nov 2009]
Accounting for Employee Benefits Under IFRS: An IFRS Publication
White Paper This paper highlights some of the significant differences between International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 and US generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) for post-employment benefits,... [13 Nov 2009]
IT Must Play a Key Role in Adapting to IFRS
White Paper In late November 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released for comment its proposed roadmap of the steps required for conversion from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US... [13 Nov 2009]
How to Navigate Through the Multi-GAAP Reporting Maze During an IFRS Conversion
White Paper Oftentimes, before a company can embed IFRS as its primary financial reporting standard, it must go through a dual-reporting period during which IFRS and US GAAP financial statements are reconciled. The ability to meet... [13 Nov 2009]
EU Compliance and Regulations for the IT Security Professional
White Paper The growth of compliance requirements over the past few years has sometimes been seen as a US-based phenomenon as regulations are implemented to address various corporate failures and scandals over the past decade or so. [13 Nov 2009]
Using Qualysguard to Meet Sox Compliance & IT Control Objectives
White Paper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has fundamentally changed the business and regulatory landscape for all companies publically traded in the US. SOX is intended to instill confidence back into the investor community after... [13 Nov 2009]
