Professor Frederick Hertzberg has promoted a theory of motivation that goes a long way forward from the original theory of the "carrot-and-stick" motivation idea, or indeed its extension, the "Reward Theory," which is still used by many managers and companies
Nokia wants some of Apple's rhythm. On July 1 the Finnish mobile-phone maker said that Warner Music Group has agreed to participate in Nokia's fledgling music service, making Warner the third of the major record labels to join in the
Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores this year and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.The scam netted the
Marc Andreessen, an entrepreneur and software engineer behind the Web's earliest browsers, has joined the board of the online hangout Facebook.Andreessen's appointment could bring additional clout and insight to a young but growing startup headed by Mark Zuckerberg, 24, who
Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's shares to
A Manhattan district judge gave Google some partial victories this week in its copyright-infringement battle with Viacom over YouTube. Last year, Viacom sued Google and its YouTube site for $1 billion for what it called unauthorized use of video clips
For a decade it appeared there was no such thing as too many Starbucks for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy its $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street --
The Mozilla Foundation has set a world record and achieved new heights in its battle for browser market share. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 Web browser set a record for the most downloads in
I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly
Microsoft is ready to put its popular Microsoft Office suite online, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Called Microsoft Equipt, the suite will join the software giant's online offerings of Windows Live Mail, Messenger, OneCare and Photo Gallery. Previously code-named
An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge -- a hack of its customers' credit card numbers -- but didn't inform the consumers, revealing how data breaches might be heavily undercounted even with new notification laws.At least
When he was fired, Scott Sidell was angry enough. Then he found out that his former employer was reading his personal Yahoo e-mail messages, after he had left the company.In a lawsuit that he filed in May against Structured Settlement
Researchers from Google, IBM and the Communications Systems Group in Switzerland released a study Monday that shows only 60 percent of Web users are surfing with patched, updated browsers.They estimated that only 576 million of 1.4 billion Internet users worldwide
Network administrators have a lot to keep them up at night.From worms and viruses and Trojan horses to business competitors trying to access inside information, threats to network security grow more sophisticated every year.Computer hacking has become so automated --
A French commercial court Monday ordered eBay Inc. to pay more than $61 million to a high-end fashion company because counterfeit goods were sold on the auction site.The fashion company, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, is home to such
Web 2.0 users beware: Social networking technologies may be fun and useful, but the one thing they are not is secure. For all the benefits it offers, the Web 2.0 world is still pretty rowdy, and the risk to enterprises
For modern business travelers, it's as valuable a tool as your laptop or cell phone. It can help you win clients and close deals. You take it everywhere you go but you can't always use it. And if you use
In an era when ad ubiquity is being met with more consumer avoidance, marketers are trying to make ads that work -- literally.Even in a slowing economy, worldwide ad spending is expected to top $600 billion this year, up from
Nokia rocked the wireless industry June 24 with news it would purchase the portion of Symbian, a maker of mobile-phone software, that it didn't already own -- and then give away the software for nothing.The prospect of free software would
E-commerce is booming. The U.S. Census Bureau reported online sales in the nation for the first quarter of 2008 was $33.8 billion, up from the $29.8 billion for the same quarter last year.If you are not using a commercial broker
