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Before sending executives on assignments in countries with questionable business practices, HR professionals must help prepare them for the ethical predicaments that may await them there
十二月 31, 2009 通过 发表评论
No one is naïve enough to think that bribery, kickbacks and other corrupt business practices don’t exist here in the United States. But it’s also understood that such practices are, 充其量, unethical and, at worst, illegal — not to mention potentially costly for companies caught engaging in them.
But in some countries, 受贿, illegal payments and other underhanded activities are simply an accepted part of doing business. And if recent statistics are any indication, the current recession is only compounding the problem.
According to a recent Ernst & Young survey, half of the 2,246 respondents in major countries across Europe said they felt that one or more types of unethical business behaviors was acceptable, 包括 25 percent who thought it fine to give a cash bribe to win work. By country, that figure rose as high as 38 percent in Spain, 43 percent in the Czech Republic and 53 percent in Turkey.
In the same survey by the New York-based business and financial advisory firm, more than half of respondents said they expect corporate fraud to increase over the next few years, 与 54 percent of participants from Western Europe and 55 percent from Central and Eastern Europe expressing the same sentiment.
美国证券交易委员会的收费加州电信公司与贿赂和其他违反反海外腐败法
十二月 31, 2009 通过 发表评论
美国证券和交易委员会今日被控阿拉米达, 总部设在加州的电信公司UT斯达康, 公司. 与侵犯外国腐败行为法“ (反海外腐败法) 非法支付数百万美元的授权，在亚洲的外国政府官员.
UT斯达康公司同意解决证券交易委员会的指控，并支付 $1.5 万美元罚款以及其他补救措施. 在相关的刑事案件, 美国. 司法部今天宣布，UT斯达康公司同意支付额外 $1.5 万元以下的罚款.
“UT斯达康花了数百万美元的非法贿赂，争取和保持在亚洲的客户,” 马克J. Fagel, 董事证券交易委员会旧金山地区办公室. “这是美国企业必须认识到，采取这些方法提高利润的贡献不能根据美国纵容腐败文化. 法。”
点击网页上的改进协作 2010
十二月 31, 2009 通过 发表评论
SharePoint, 微软的广泛和广受欢迎的的商务平台, 越来越多的从优秀到卓越. Shar的SharePoint0 能够提供更全面的功能和新的企业级管理工具的广度，为企业的稳健的业务协作和Web.
虽然改善到SharePoint 2007 整个细分行业推广其协作和工作区能力的产品, 门户网站, 和企业内容管理要效益, 的SharePoint 2010 拥有一个更丰富, 更先进的集成功能设置，很容易使员工之间的业务合作, 同事, 和合作伙伴.
基础业务协作功能的SharePoint 2010 包括: 文档协作; wiki和博客; 支持RSS; 讨论板; 项目任务管理; 接触, 日历, 和任务; 电子邮件存储和管理; 更好的设计与Microsoft Office工作 2010; 和, 丰富的离线支持使用SharePoint工作区 2010.
业内专家说，与SharePoint 2010 微软填补了以前版本的差距，提供了一个动态的产品，将现有的SharePoint用户和新客户，叫嚣.
“微软肯定的SharePoint 2010 更引人注目的当前SharePoint的客户和新的潜在客户,“盖伊说短剑, 伯顿集团的研究部主任.
通过 点击网页上的改进协作 2010.
In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing
十二月 29, 2009 通过 发表评论
In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing
International Law May Confound Benefits
By Greg Freemyer and Hope Haslam
云计算, the process of storing and processing data on remote, outsourced third-party-owned servers, is growing in popularity, largely because it provides users with access to state-of-the-art and constantly updated software and fast infrastructure — without the overwhelming costs. As technology advances at exponential speeds, companies must find ways to remain competitive. Buying the latest and greatest, only to find it obsolete before it is paid for, is a progressively unsustainable option.
For international companies, 不过, there are tremendous legal hurdles to accomplishing an effective conversion. Two of the most troubling are:
- 美国. preservation requirements; 和
- International privacy laws.
As companies begin to set up, or more likely expand, a cloud computing system, they must understand the legal issues that need to be addressed in order to avoid subjecting the company to sanctions, fines, penalties and enormous e-discovery costs when litigation arises.
[继续] In-House Legal Departments and the Use of Cloud Computing.
前雇员说，希捷注意到科技, 毁灭证据
十二月 29, 2009 通过 发表评论
A decade-long lawsuit pitting a tiny company called Convolve against Seagate Technology has taken an unexpected turn after a whistle-blower claimed that Seagate had appropriated Convolve technology and later destroyed evidence in the case.
The whistle-blower, a former Seagate employee named Paul A. Galloway, has provided what is described as “an eyewitness account” accusing Seagate of taking hard-drive technology from Convolve and incorporating it into its own products, according to documents filed recently with a federal court in Manhattan.
The court filings include claims by Mr. Galloway that Seagate, the world’s largest producer of computer hard drives, tampered with evidence tied to Convolve’s nearly 10-year-old patent infringement case against the company.
The allegations are detailed in an affidavit filed by one of Convolve’s lawyers as part of an effort to reopen the voluminous court record to include testimony from Mr. Galloway.
通过 Ex-Employee Says Seagate Took Technology From Convolve – NYTimes.com.
Adobe将在黑客热门目标 2010, 报告说， – 计算机世界商务中心
十二月 29, 2009 通过 发表评论
Adobe系统&后; Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week.
“Cybercriminals have long picked on Microsoft products due to their popularity. 在 2010, we anticipate Adobe software, especially Acrobat Reader and Flash, will take the top spot,” security vendor McAfee said in its “2010 威胁预测” 报告 (PDF格式).
Hackers usually target the most widely used products in order to achieve the maximum impact. For a long time that has made Microsoft their primary target. But the software giant has tightened security in its recent OS releases, leading hackers to look for additional targets.
Adobe’s CTO acknowledged recently that his company’s software is being attacked more frequently, and said the company has stepped up its efforts to respond.
“We have absolutely seen an increase in the number of attacks, around Reader in particular and also Flash Player to some extent,” CTO Kevin Lynch told reporters at the Adobe Max conference in October. “We’re working to decrease the amount of time between when we know about a problem and when we release a fix. That used to be a couple of months; now it&后;s within two weeks for critical issues.”
DONT俯视联邦和州法规数据 – 商业周刊
十二月 29, 2009 通过 发表评论
Tracking new regulations and compliance rulings from federal and state government can be dizzying—they include FRCP, HIPAA法案, GLB, 多. But now more than ever, the government expects all businesses to comply, not just large corporations.
今天, every company is responsible for its data and for securing its customers’ information, no matter how much it costs to do so. In today’s litigious business world, the possibility of being dragged into a lawsuit is very real, and if that happens, you will likely need to make your information available to the process. And woe to the company that cannot comply with basic regulations, because a judge will not accept that you thought those requirements applied only to the big companies.
A good example is a recent investigation involving Freddie Mac. A small agency working with Freddie Mac was pulled into the investigation, and the agency had to complete a request by the government for an electronic discovery search. The agency assumed the cost would be minor, but it did not have an automated approach to managing its data in place. The inaccessibility of the data required an army of attorneys and staff to perform a hands-on physical review. The cost came to $6 万. When the agency sought relief, it was turned down by an appeals court. It should have known better.
通过 Todays Tip Dont Overlook Federal and State Data Regulations – 商业周刊.
Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged – NYTimes.com
十二月 28, 2009 通过 发表评论
A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the worlds digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of the world’s wireless systems.
The action by the encryption expert Karsten Nohl aimed to question the effectiveness of the 21-year-old GSM algorithm, a code developed in 1988 and still used to protect the privacy of 80 percent of the worlds mobile calls.
“This shows that existing GSM security is inadequate,“先生. Nohl, 28, told about 600 people attending the Chaos Communication Congress, a four-day computer hacker’s conference that runs through Wednesday here. “We are trying to push operators to adopt better security measures for mobile phone calls.”
通过 Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged – NYTimes.com.
最近美国. “电子发现” Sanctions Order in U.S. Patent Case Creates New Threat to Chinese Companies – Martindale.com
十二月 28, 2009 通过 发表评论
传统, the U.S. courts both federal and state have forced private litigants to exchange, through their lawyers, highly confidential paper documents recording the most intimate details o美国 business affairs. Such “民间发现” often included disclosure under a “保护令” of both technological and financial trade secrets. By the late 1990s, 不过, the U.S. courts recognized that the most important business records were being created and stored electronically, rather than on paper. To keep U.S. civil litigation current with this rapid change in business recordkeeping, 十二月 1, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a new and controversial set of procedural and evidentiary rules governing the discovery of “电子存储信息” 在中美. 民事诉讼.
