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    Judge tosses racketeering claims in Marin County lawsuit against SAP 29 December, 2011 08:33:16

    A judge has tossed out a number of claims in a California county's lawsuit against SAP over an allegedly failed ERP software implementation, including the claim that SAP had engaged in a racketeering conspiracy with Deloitte Consulting, which served as a systems integrator on the project.
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    UK cracks down on claims industry SMS spam 09 December, 2011 01:26:46

    Text-message spam is coming under close scrutiny from the U.K.'s data protection authority, which is trying to blunt an increasing wave of insurance industry and accident compensation-related spam.
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    European regulators start investigating Carrier IQ 06 December, 2011 00:08:23

    Organizations and regulators across Europe, including Germany, have started looking into the use of Carrier IQ's tracking software, to ensure that mobile phone vendors and operators are not violating users' privacy.
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    EU seeks to simplify cross-border data protection compliance 30 November, 2011 04:13:59

    To make it simpler for businesses to comply with the multiplicity of data protection regimes across Europe, Viviane Reding envisages letting European Union companies set their own privacy rules -- as long as they agree with one national data protection authority (DPA) to make them legally binding on all business units within the same group, wherever they may be.
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    USB sticks still being used insecurely, Ponemon study finds 27 November, 2011 01:42:00

    USB sticks remain a big security weakness for many UK organisations with many employees using drives for data transport without permission and not bothering to report their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found.
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    Republicans call for voluntary cybersecurity incentives 06 October, 2011 07:24:32

    The U.S. Congress should focus on voluntary incentives, instead of new regulations, as a way to encourage companies to improve their cybersecurity efforts, although some changes in current laws are needed, a group of Republican lawmakers said in a report released Wednesday.
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    UK says Google needs further privacy improvements 16 August, 2011 23:28:08

    Google was praised on Tuesday by the U.K.'s data protection watchdog for strengthening its privacy policies but the agency said the company still needs to improve.
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    Anonymous hackers target Murdoch's News Corp. 20 July, 2011 06:49:00

    The hackers at News Corp. have become the hackees -- surely that's a word in modern parlance -- of Anonymous and LulzSec, who released email login details of two former News of the World editors and are threatening to divulge more.
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    Deloitte wants software lawsuit kept away from jury 06 July, 2011 05:25:29

    Deloitte Consulting is fighting an attempt by Marin County, California, to bring allegations over a failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project before a jury, calling it a tactical ploy to gain publicity and avoid a skeptical judge.
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    Forrester calls Google's Chromebook 'corporate idiocy' 28 May, 2011 01:14:00

    LAS VEGAS - Let's begin this story the same way a murder mystery starts -- with a few bare facts. The victim is Google's Chromebook. The crime scene is Forrester's IT Forum here, and the alleged suspect is George Colony, chairman and CEO of the research firm.
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    SAP's 'Ramp-Up' program fingered in ERP lawsuit 27 May, 2011 03:33:00

    Officials in Marin County, California, are claiming SAP enticed them into joining a "Ramp-Up" early adopter program for a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite, a move that helped send the project on a road to ruin.
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