Spotlight Features

For the last five years, it has become common for directors of Western companies to ask corporate managers, "What is our Bangalore strategy?" Now that labor markets in South Asia are maturing, a new question is becoming pertinent. For the next five years, a more relevant question will be, "What is o...

Mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for individuals to move from place to place while staying connected to important people and information. Sometimes, however, cellular networks do not deliver on that promise, especially when a user walks inside a building. Alleviating that problem is one re...

Last week HP laid off 14,500 people and most determined that this was actually a good thing. In a way I think most of us have forgotten how hard a layoff of this size can be on any organization and how disruptive a drawn out process can be. At the same time, however, my heart goes out to the HP empl...

Too many executives either ignore or are unaware of corporate culture. Yet, it is absolutely critical to the success of their company. Whether you know it or not, corporate culture permeates your organization -- for good or for bad. There are actually many definitions of corporate culture, and you c...

Watching television over an Internet connection is no longer a futuristic idea for select groups in the area of San Diego, Calif. The testing of a new service called "Broadband TV" demonstrates the power of communications convergence and shows why legacy regulations governing the sector need to be s...

A recent survey in the United States has highlighted the growing trend of employers to electronically monitor employees in the workplace. According to the 2005 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey conducted by the American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute, employers ...

Long after Napster, mainstream software giants like Microsoft are beginning to get into the online music fray with file-sharing applications, and Internet giants like Yahoo are moving to subscription models for digital downloads. While we've not quite seen a digital revolution yet, file-sharing pund...

This fight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is all about a golden key, as without it, the Internet is completely useless. That golden key is a name on the Net called a URL. It's all about the master design of a sophisticated key management system so that billions ...

A number of software and service offerings allow computer users to conduct process monitoring to find out what malicious or hidden programs may be running on their machines, but security experts indicate the lower-level, PC-specific scanning is too detailed to be useful to most enterprise IT departm...

"Speed of Sound" from Coldplay's X&Y album is currently Number 7 in the Modern Rock section of p2pnet's unique Top Ten Music Download chart. And Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." is at Number 8. Cool. And meanwhile, at EMI Music, "New album releases from Coldplay and Gorillaz have both enjoyed conside...