It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Has a friend ever given you that precious tidbit of information? Ignore it – at least if you work in an FDA regulated industry. The FDA requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to meet exacting standards when it comes to packaging and labeling their products. It’s no surprise when you consider that “What you say” in the pharmaceutical industry – the information presented on your labels – can hurt or even kill patients if [...] Read more...

What do you do when your milk reaches its expiration date? If you’re anything like me, you give it the sniff test and drink it if it smells okay… or pour it in your cereal if it doesn’t smell bad, but it doesn’t quite smell good either. How about that fish that’s been in the back of your fridge since your shopping trip two days ago? Fish goes sour pretty quickly. Sniff test again? Do you touch it to see if the flesh feels slimy? What about steak that’s been frozen [...] Read more...

Clicking through the blogosphere you have undoubtedly paused to check out the building lawsuit against Facebook and Zuckerberg. The details of the lawsuit in a nutshell revolve around Paul Ceglia, an entrepreneur, conman and felon. Paul has recently stepped forward to claim his 50% ownership of the ballooning Facebook Corporation, and to be honest the evidence in Paul’s favor looks pretty convincing. Read the rest of this post on TechAxcess.com! Read more...

In an increasingly mobilized world the enterprise has to take added precautions to insure that employees are following safe and secure practice on their mobile devices. With the rapid adoption of smartphones comes many security risks that are left unanswered by management. Employees often access work files and emails from their devices unknowing of the risk they pose to their own personal security and the security of the corporation as a whole. But what then is the answer to this inevitable crisis [...] Read more...

One of the biggest problems ERM suffers from in the market is simply defining it, making it easy for managers to understand how they can affect it, positively or negatively, and why it is just as real as the painfully tangible operation risks that shut down their production.  Risk managers are constantly searching for examples that enable them to sell risk management throughout the organizations.  The recent tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is about as good an example [...] Read more...

So how could Starbucks solve this problem of one bad cup of coffee spilling to creating one dissatisfied customer, and those customers adding up over time to topple them as a market leader?  How could they measure this risk and mitigate it? But first remember, this is only a problem because Starbucks was a dominant market leader; they were practically the only major player in this market.  They created the market and then rapidly saturated their primary and secondary markets (Wall Street was thrilled).  [...] Read more...

Crowdsourcing is a term tossed around loosely in several different verticals. The new technology continues to blaze a path while remaining virtually undefined, and apart from a few tech blogs, practically untouched by the media. The power and impact of croudsourcing on the future of the enterprise has been realized, but hardly scratches the service on a large scale. While cloud computing, social media and the rise of enterprise mobility has been publicized and republicized, crowdsourcing combines [...] Read more...

I read with amusement over the weekend the article written by New York Times columnist Verne G. Kopytoff entitled “Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites like Twitter”. In it, Kopytoff profiles millennials who no longer use blogs but instead gravitate to social networking sites to share their media: be it pictures, videos or the written word. While this may be true, we cannot deny that the existence of the blog is not going to disappear, and in fact it’s usage as a medium is growing. Read [...] Read more...

Cloud computing vendors can be happy that their goods and services are on the Feds’ tech wish list. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has released the “Federal Cloud Computing Strategy” that says “an estimated $20 billion of the Federal Government’s $80 billion in IT spending is a potential target for migration to cloud computing solutions.” That’s saying a quarter of the total $80 billion spend on IT could go to cloud computing. Read the rest of this post at TechAxcess.com! Read more...

In terms of news outside of the technology sphere, Facebook sure gets a lot of exposure. It’s understandable: the company has been able to amass over 500 million users. That’s no small feat. But the idea that Facebook could become “the most valuable company in the world” makes me smell a bubble. And I’m not even sure what bubbles smell like. I understand that valuations on web properties tend to come from the amount of users that a site has. Facebook has a lot, more than anyone else. [...] Read more...

The turn of events for both Microsoft and Nokia has been sharp in the past few years. Sure, Nokia still holds sway in markets outside of the United States, and Microsoft is the defacto enterprise standard. But in order to survive in the new world order of mobile technologies based on apps, they are going to have to work together to survive. Read more at TechAxcess.com! Read more...

Security is rarely listed as a benefit of the cloud.  In fact, we are frequently warned that the cloud is a scary place.  Countless articles caution about all of the things that can go wrong; entire conferences are dedicated to the topic. Some concern is understandable and warranted.  Public clouds introduce unique security challenges, but a slightly deeper examination reveals that many of security challenges aren’t cloud specific. They are the same old security problems that organizations [...] Read more...

With so many companies fighting their way into the cloud computing ring, it is surprising that Apple’s cloud offerings have been limited to their simple and uninspiring MobileMe service. The perfectionist company has fueled much of the emerging technology in the last ten years, including the smartphone and tablet industries, and has dabbled in just about everything else. But for some reason the cloudy itch that has swept the tech industry has not been contracted by Jobs and his crew. Read [...] Read more...

A recent Gartner study is confirming what many of us have long known – open source software (OSS) rocks.  Enticed by promises of flexibility, innovation, lower cost and faster acquisition times, companies are increasingly adopting open source solutions to support their business processes.  OSS is becoming pervasive.  The benefits are compelling, but nothing in life is free, and despite popular perception, that includes open source software. Read the rest of this article at TechAxcess.com Read more...

If you have ever been the victim of a hack then you know the feelings involved: dread, helplessness and loss. Hacking incidents almost always happen when things are going very well for a website or network, always when you least expect it. Under these circumstances, Anonymous’ recent move against security firm HBGary should have been quite predictable. The CEO of HBGary, Aaron Barr, had been telling media outlets that he had successfully penetrated Anonymous as a group, outing several high [...] Read more...