WASHINGTON DC - In order to communicate messages to workers in a complex business environment, a majority of companies plan to increase their use of social media in the coming year, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of companies plan to increase their use of
STAMFORD, Conn. - The energy, space and technology problems currently facing data center managers are set to worsen in 2010, according to analyst firm Gartner, Data center and IT managers need to find pragmatic ways in which to deal with them. "Energy costs are the fastest-rising cost element in the data center portfolio, and yet
NEW YORK - Staffing levels in IT will remain the same in 2010 as they are now according to a recent survey conducted by Hay Group, the global management consulting firm. Sixty-nine percent of CIOs said their staffing levels will be unchanged in 2010, indicating a 'bottoming out' of staff reductions in IT. "Combined with
BIRMINGHAM - At first glance the idea of a US Smart Grid is appealing: Update the power grid so that it is more dynamic, granular, and controllable. In practical terms it means replacing the meters on every house, apartment, restaurant, gym, plant, and business in the country with digital meters that provide a control point
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Small Business Administration on Wednesday issued the following statement by SBA Administrator Karen Mills on a proposal by President Barack Obama to raise the maximum loan size for SBA-backed loans to small business. �??America�??s 29 million small businesses have been hard hit in this recession. Nine months ago, President Obama sent
DETROIT - Last week, the cover of Time Magazine captured a snapshot of a ruined city. It could have been Stalingrad in the 1940s when young untrained Russian youths were thrown into desperate battle with one rifle shared between two men, to save a city that was already reduced to rubble. In fact last week's
NEW YORK - While social media has garnered enormous exposure in the business press, it has translated into very little user among small business owners and managers, according to a new Citibank / GfK Roper survey. According to the survey of 500 small business executives across the United States, 76 percent have not found social
DETROIT - A $250 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, could easily resolve the late breaking issues that prompted the unexpected, last minute collapse of the proposed Penske Automotive Group purchase of Saturn, according to Todd Ingersoll, Saturn's Retailer Council member. "This is well within the parameters of grants already made through
DETROIT - Next week SecureWorld 2009 comes again to Detroit! Mark your calendar for September 29 - 30 to come to the Ford Conference & Event Center in Dearborn to get up to speed on the rapidly changing world of security. Hear keynote speaker Jeff Bardin discuss how extremists are using social networking today to
WASHINGTON - The Internet is arguably the most significant technological development of our time. It has changed the way we communicate, the way we learn, and the way we see things. It brings previously isolated and disparate information to our fingertips, almost instantaneously, and has become the primary means by which we conduct business and