Thin client technology and the Java card have enabled business to create a data-centric world with a mobile workforce. The creative possibilities in this environment are boundless, but freedom from the office comes with increased risk.

Convenience and cost-savings are powerful incentives for companies to use technology as a way of convening meetings, and they do so knowing that an electronically-mediated session will be different from a face-to-face meeting.

Until now, the data collected by companies about their customers and their business processes was relatively cumbersome to use.

In the wake of spectacular corporate collapses, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act established new rules on a scale not seen since those meant to ameliorate the economic calamities of the 1930s. But three experts at the W. P.

The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that 2005 U.S. e-commerce sales rose to $86.3 billion -- 25 percent over 2004 sales. Yet e-commerce represents only around 2 percent of U.S. retail sales.

Across the U.S., city-sponsored plans to provide low-cost wireless Internet access have sparked opposing pieces of legislation in the House and the Senate. H.R. 2726 would prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information or cable services, while S.B.

"Just as parks have benches and trees, community wireless is a community benefit," according to a nonprofit Wi-Fi provider in New York City. "Wi-Fi has become an amenity that's almost a necessity for the business traveler," says one ASU professor. Another professor at the W. P.

Cultural compatibility, along with quality software engineering and support, made India-based Tata Consultancy Services a $2.24 billion software outsourcing company with a tight grip on the Western market.

There may actually be a useful purpose for those annoying song lyrics that get stuck in your head. Easy-to-remember phrases could be the basis of a much more secure method of protecting computer information and accounts. They can be used as pass phrases.

Businesses large and small are becoming familiar with SaaS (software as a service) -- most easily defined as software bought and maintained by an outside party which charges business customers to access their applications via the Internet.