U.S. broadband providers are delivering close to their advertised speeds, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission report, but not everyone trusts the numbers. The FCC's new broadband performance study, released Thursday, ...
Tags: U.S., FCC, broadband providers, advertised download speeds
Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
Tags: Bank IT, Compliance Role, Think Tank, banks
A cyber security think tank has published a manual studying how international law applies to conflicts in cyberspace, where the laws of conventional warfare are more difficult to apply. The manual comes from experts working with the ...
Tags: cyber attacks, cyber security, cyber warfare, cyberspace, nternational law
When North Korea s Kim Jong-un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country s long-held dream of becoming a "space power". Sharing the limelight with the 29-year old will be three ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, rocket launch, satellite
The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the ...
The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, ...
The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyber threats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cyber security ...
Businesses will face tough penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation. Companies could face fines of up to 2% of their turnover for breaching a proposed EU data protection law. “It is ...
Tags: businesses, tough penalties, secure personal data, European legislation
More than half of shoppers change their meal plans according to which products are on promotion at supermarkets, claims new research published by the grocery think-tank IGD’s ShopperVista team. Better-off families and young ...
Tags: meal plans, shoppers, IGD, food
Reuters reported that Shanghai steel futures jumped 1.6 percent on Wednesday, tracking gains in equities, after China's next president said the state will fine tune policies to ensure stable economic growth next year, boosting the outlook ...
Tags: steel scrap price, buy steel pipe, steel tank, iron ore price news
Specialty Retail 2012: Mobile and Amazon are reshaping retail. M-commerce is the fastest growing channel in the history of commerce Digital IQ Index: Specialty Retail 2012: E-commerce is now M-commerce L2, a think tank for digital ...
Tags: 2012 Digital IQ Index, 2012 Digital IQ Index Specialty Retail
The idea of introducing plain packaging for cigarettes is likely to lead to a rise in youth smoking, according to a report by Adam Smith Institute, a free market think-tank. The report insists that the replacement of all brand packaging ...
Tags: Plain Cigarette Packaging, Cigarette Packaging, Youth Smoking
NineSigma has partnered with The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sight and Life, DSM's nutrition think tank to help Scientists Without Borders find more sustainable packaging for ...
Tags: Sustainable Micro, cost-effective packaging, packaging solution
Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
Tags: high-skill immigration, U.S.election, large tech companies
The IT Security professional is there to ensure that an organisation's information is not compromised,whether you are an acquirer,a target or a party to a merger. From the acquirer's perspective,there are some very simple questions that ...
Tags: Security Think Tank, Essential security questions, MandAs