Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Bank Morgan Stanley fined for disclosure of sensitive data on Facebook

Bank Morgan Stanley, who led the IPO of social network Facebook, has agreed to pay a fine of $ 5 million to the American market regulators in Massachusetts, after the last found that Morgan Stanley disclosed the results of the quarterly IPO shortly before a small group of investors, but not to the general public.

According to the market regulator in Massachusetts, bankers Morgan Stanley arranged conference calls between employees Facebook, bankers, analysts, and a limited number of investors, which were disclosed some important data on the performance of social networks, which were not included in the official records of the company. According to Massachusetts regulators, the result of such activities, the precedent on which some investors have an informational advantage over others.

The complaint states that a limited number of investors was evidence that the results were lower than the average Facebook and some investors either declined to purchase, or they have decided to use this data to their advantage.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Microsoft Office 365 - benefits in the cloud

Office 365 - the next step in evolution. Office 365 brings the possibility of business applications into the cloud and provide cloud services on your terms.

In this article we will talk about the features and capabilities of Office 365, the benefits that come with the package, and that the need to know to be ready to use Office 365.

Based on business performance - the employees working with the information, or, as they are called, 'information workers'. Never before has one man could do so much, either alone or in collaboration with others. And never before IT does not have to support this. 'Information workers' need to be able to transmit business-critical information in a rich formatting of documents, presentations and spreadsheets, to share this information for fast and reliable communication channels, and to interact with colleagues, customers and partners.

Although the Office has always changed with the needs of information workers, but requests are increasing. Simultaneously changing the overall landscape of technology and communications. But Office is not far behind, providing multifunctional tools to maximize reveal potential users and to raise the height of unprecedented business performance.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Global IT companies taxes hide billions in profit

Multinational companies are known to many as one of the main engines of the world economy. Recently, however, more and more global companies are called to a fire in themselves because of their unbridled passion for tax optimization. So, today, Bloomberg published the results of its own investigation, according to which the Internet company Google in 2011, withdrew from the European tax of almost $ 10 billion, and the European economy has received less $ 2 billion in taxes due to the fact that part of the company's revenues corresponded to offshore representative who actually were open only to accumulate money. One of the largest offshore Google opened offices in Bermuda.

Lawyers say that the tax technique used Internet giant is called 'Double Irish' and 'Dutch Sandwich'. Through them, the company has reduced its overseas tax to 2.4%, the lowest of the five major U.S. IT companies, despite the fact that other companies also have foreign offices.

"It is significant that the effective tax rate is so low for Google - said in an interview to Bloomberg U.S. tax economist Martin Sullivan Financial Management. - We know that the company is working to bypass the foreign countries with a high rate of taxation. On most markets where company tax rate significantly above 20%. "

Oracle buys DataRaker

Oracle plans to acquire the company DataRaker, which will in future offer customers a dedicated Oracle cloud platform for the analysis of data from smartmetrov used for metering of electricity, water, gas and other resources. Terms of the deal, which was announced today, is not publicly disclosed.

Experts say that smartmetry or 'smart meters' generate large amounts of data, which is often associated with new-fangled concept of 'big data' - huge amounts of unstructured data in different formats. In Oracle say now awaiting absorption DataRaker and after the deal closes, the company will offer new functionality in their decisions, focused on the world of housing.

More specifically on the business plans with data DataRaker Oracle plans to announce later, now only states that the products acquired company will become part of the proposals Oracle Utilities.

Sunday, December 09, 2012

BitDefender Client Security - Security Solution for Small Business

Protection against cyber-attacks designed to prevent leakage from one side of vital business information, and on the other to prevent viruses and malware, and the more influence to stop the company's business processes.

BitDefender specialists have created a solution that is far out of the ordinary Antivirus - BitDefender Client Security.

Organizations can effectively protect enterprise client systems against malicious features BitDefender detect and prevent the entry of new and unknown threats with simultaneous compliance with corporate security policies and manage them effectively with limited IT resources.

BitDefender Client Security is composed of BitDefender Enterprise Manager and BitDefender Professional Plus, combined into a single solution for security. BitDefender Enterprise Manager automates common tasks (including the anti-virus database and application components), allowing administrators to install clients and execute tasks from anywhere in the network. BitDefender Professional Plus Client includes antivirus, firewall, antispam and antispyware, allowing comprehensive data protection for workstations, meeting the needs of corporate computer users.

Sunday, December 02, 2012

TheBrain PersonalBrain software application for working with the mind map

TheBrain PersonalBrain software is an application for working with the mind map and allows you to merge the information into the network in the way people think.

PersonalBrain from TheBrain Technologies LP. is the result of a digital 'brain' into which you can add an unlimited number of files, ideas and 'ideas' - even with 1,000 such objects card is easily expandable. Traditional mind maps to help people visualize their ideas - intelligence interface card displays objects from the horizontal branch unchanged root. This creates difficulties in linking ideas far apart the branches and in the visualization of large amounts of information.

Unlike standard mind maps PersonalBrain features do not impose restrictions on the number of "ideas" and the amount of information to add.

PersonalBrain can be used to create mind maps, and for the 'brainstorming'. Users will be conveniently imported into existing mind maps and continue their expansion in the new environment. The program can store and open maps to organize their interaction with each other.

TheBrain Technologies - your ideas and thoughts in a convenient graphical charts

Company TheBrain Technologies LP. develops solutions to organize your ideas and thoughts in a convenient graphical charts. TheBrain - Mind Mapping Software, Brainstorming, GTD and Knowledgebase Software

Patented user interface is so flexible that it can link any file or concept with all other map objects. Software TheBrain Technology allows you to visualize the thought process on individual workstations, collectively, on a server or in a 'cloud' on the site webbrain.com.

More than half of the organizations of the Fortune 100 employ vendor products for information management and decision-making. Currently customers flagship TheBrain Technology, PersonalBrain, are more than a million users around the world. Vendor solutions needed in areas such as customer service, project management, dynamic mind maps, IT-management and technical support, marketing and sales support, competitor analysis, impact assessment, management of personal information.

Product features TheBrain Technology:

   - The integration of all the sources of information into a single visual environment, full control of data;

   - Overview of key components and relationships for global understanding of the interaction of their ideas;

   - Receive instant access to maps through off PC, LAN or Internet.