Robyn Greenspan

The average computer houses roughly 28 items of monitoring software, unbeknownst to the user, according to Internet service provider Earthlink and Webroot Software. The study was released just in time for the FTC’s Spyware [define] Workshop on April 19 in Washington, DC. The findings come from a collaborative SpyAudit report that analyzed Scans of PCs […]

Employees are almost evenly split about whether they believe everything they hear from their employers, according to a Towers Perrin study of 1,000 U.S. workers. While more than 90 percent of the respondents indicate that they are able to handle the truth about their companies, their jobs, and their compensation, just 49 percent believe that […]

Nearly 6 out of 10 e-mails are unwanted, as Brightmail’s Probe Network measured December 2003’s spam volume at 58 percent — 2 percentage points higher than the previous month. The volume has risen dramatically since the beginning of the year, when spam only comprised 42 percent of the e-mail in inboxes, and Brightmail expects that […]

Integration is a key issue for IT professionals, as companies increasingly incorporate software and services from multiple vendors. An Oracle-sponsored ITtoolbox survey of more than 400 global IT workers conducted during October 2003 revealed that companies are actively pursuing integration to improve existing systems. Top Strategic Reasons for Pursuing Integration Improve information access 66.6% Increase […]

Electronic consumption has created a society of digital packrats, as the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley found in a comprehensive report that examined the flow and storage of information. The report estimates that stored information has grown 30 percent per year between 1999 and 2002, and […]

Those that fill director/vice president of networks positions were graced with the largest IT pay raises in 2003, as IDG’s Computerworldannual salary survey indicated an average 6.8 percent increase for the execs, followed by e-commerce managers who got a 4.6 percent hike. The survey, conducted from May through July 2003, found that the average raise […]

IT professionals that want to follow the jobs may want to consider a move to India, as ITtoolbox finds that the country claims 21 percent of the global companies that outsource abroad. While 72 percent of the 612 IT professionals that were surveyed said that they outsource all or a portion of their IT functions, […]

C-suite level executives give themselves barely passing grades when it comes to post-9/11 disaster plans, a joint Harris Interactive/SunGard Availability Services finds. The June 2003 survey of 52 top executives of Fortune 1000 companies revealed that while corporate America has made significant strides in information protection, significant vulnerabilities still exist. The survey found that on […]

The United Kingdom and the United States are the most lucrative regions for IT professionals, according to the 2003 Information Technology Toolbox, Inc. (ITtoolbox) Salary Survey, which indicates that the two countries have the highest industry pay scales. IT professionals in the UK and U.S. can expect to earn an average annual salary in excess […]

The influx of Mother’s Day messages contributed to a 6+ percent increase in spam attacks for May 2003. Brightmail measured 7,494,335 unique spam attacks for the month, with the biggest increase seen in health-related messages. The “products” category remained unchanged at 25 percent for the third consecutive month, and the “adult” category held steady for […]