This week's letter to RadioIO is just a small part of an expanding licensing campaign by Acacia, which confidently says it holds sweeping patents likely to cover the activities of a huge swath of internet multimedia companies, ranging from...
The software giant said it will take a charge of about $144m before taxes to cover the cost of the settlement. While that method allowed the company to report smoother sales figures, critics charged that it allowed the company to cover up what were...
Originated by Motorola in the late 1980s, the Six Sigma methodology aims to reduce variations in a process - or, in other words, defects. Six Sigma methods work as well in reducing errors across IT operations as they do in manufacturing processes...
Then they allegedly tried to cover up their crimes by lying. Computer Associates' former CEO was indicted on criminal charges related to fraudulent accounting practices, and the company on Wednesday agreed to pay $225m to settle with federal...
By keeping its security processes current, the software maker aims to avoid the need to reassign substantial developer resources to an all-out security review, a company representative said. Johannes Ullrich, the chief research officer at the SANS...
Engagement with other best practices drop off sharply after Itil with Microsoft Operations Framework and Six Sigma the next most popular, followed by Prince 2, ISO, CMMi, ASL, CoBIT and TQM. Itil is a set of best practices for delivering public or...