Stories about: CPA

Google is testing an ad model that in theory isn't vulnerable to click fraud, a serious problem that some believe puts in danger Google's main source of revenue: search engine-based advertising.

Adding to the lengthening list of organizations reporting data compromises, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Wednesday confirmed that a computer hard drive containing the unencrypted names, addresses and Social Security numbers of nearly all of its 330,000 members has been missing since February.

Ask IT managers to nominate the Golden Age of IT and the year 2006 rates highly, well above the pre-dotcom crash days when overnight tech sensations were driving Ferraris. The more sentimental IT professionals polled in a Computerworld survey last week, preferred the mid-1980s when the office fax ruled, DOS-driven PCs were everywhere and important data was coded in Cobol and locked away on mainframes in hallowed glass rooms.

Chief financial officers have too much corporate power. CIOs have too little. This is especially true among global organizations, where a good CIO is a far better asset than a good CFO.

Crippled by falling IT enrolments and the need to develop course material relevant to the CIO job title, a number of universities have joined together to launch an initiative that will lay the academic foundations for Australia's next generation of IT professionals.

Australia's CPA infrastructure manager talks about the advantages of thin computing

Verizon this week said it expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in the U.S., Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and is offering it as an access option for its Private IP MPLS VPN service.

IT workers who don't feel they're getting the training from their employers needed to do their jobs are more likely to be looking for new jobs, according to a survey by The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), an information technology industry trade association.

In early 2003, I found myself out of work. And though the layoff didn't come as a complete surprise, it's not always easy to anticipate how things will turn out and how you'll react when faced with that situation.

Computer Associates (CA) has set its sights on the SMB market following the release of its Protection Suite.

Australia's largest accounting body CPA Australia will release next week a practical guide on improving IT governance in organizations.