If the question is how to stop greedy CEOs from embezzlement and fraud, and the answer is Sparta Systems’ TrackWise. TrackWise provides C-suite executives, as well as staff members, with an instant window to all aspects of their operations by offering powerful reporting, automatic trend detection and management dashboards. TrackWise ensures compliance and removes risk by managing, tracking and reporting all issues and actions made within the organization while offering a fully-configurable workflow management, powerful querying and enterprise metrics reporting.

The 2,700 attendees at Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference are going to get an earful about Windows Vista, the upcoming Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Home Server–and that’s just from the keynote addresses.

The second theme is all about the first 100 days of Windows Vista and an update on market momentum, as well as an opportunity to demonstrate the things that partners have attached themselves to and used to create new and innovative products.

Laplink Conference Center provides a suite of simple, powerful, and secure online conferencing tools that make it easy and affordable for any-sized business to adopt a virtual conferencing solution.

A simple, streamlined interface manages the various tools including Web Conferencing, Audio Conferencing, Instant Messaging with colleagues, and Screen Sharing.

With no extensive technical knowledge or training, Laplink Conference Center allows users to collaborate on projects, deliver presentations, perform product demonstrations, train customers and employees, and safely share confidential information from anywhere at anytime. With its suite of secure online tools to help teams collaborate and communicate, Laplink Conference Center increases business productivity without compromising the security of company information.

Since we’ve been following the path of the GWB43.COM domain name through SMARTech, and we know that Karl Rove and 21 other White House officials, abiding by the Hatch Act, run political email through GWB43.COM and SMARTech, we thought it best to look at the national security implications of this practice. In this article, we’ll also look at questions of BlackBerry security with a security expert and the nightmare scenario compliance with the Hatch Act might inadvertently cause.

Read this OutlookPower article.

Lenovo Group has signed a deal with Microsoft to buy Windows, Office and other software suites for its personal computers in a deal worth as much as $1.3 billion.

The agreement emulates one inked in 2006, worth $1.2 billion over one year, to pre-install Microsoft’s Windows operating system software on Lenovo’s computers, deemed a major step in China’s efforts to combat piracy.

Yahoo has told users it will shut down its North American Web auction site, the second service the world’s most visited Internet media company has set to retire in the past week.

According to a message posted on the Yahoo Auctions site, the service will no longer accept new auction lists from June 3. The last day to bid or buy goods and services on the auction site is June 16.

Yahoo officials said last week they planned to shut down Yahoo Photos, its first-generation photo storage site, in June. They asked users to move to Yahoo’s Web 2.0 photo sharing site, Flickr.

A former U.S. justice official who tried to break up Microsoft seven years ago has #3urged the European Commission to tread cautiously## if it tries to do the same.

European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, frustrated by what she sees as Microsoft’s defiance of the law, recently raised the question of whether the U.S. software giant should be broken up.

But one of the American architects of a previous break-up bid says Europeans should proceed cautiously, if at all. So far there are no indications that could happen, and experts consider it unlikely.

DYS Analytics debuted EmailTide.com, a blog on corporate email and IM management. With the flood of email and IM impacting productivity and eating into IT budgets, EmailTide.com helps organizations swim, not sink, in the rising tide of messaging overload, by implementing better messaging management practices.

The blog is moderated by Stefan Mehlhorn, CEO of DYS Analytics, who provides unbiased observations and insight based on his over 15 years of expertise in the field.

Microsoft declared the opening day of its first BI conference, May 9, "a new day" for business intelligence, with the same old goal every BI vendor has had for years: To make BI ubiquitous in the enterprise, used by all relevant workers, not just by executives and IT.

The difference with Microsoft and other BI providers is its ability to not only circulate BI technology through a massive technology stack–SQL Server, Office, other servers, tools–but to push that technology out through a ubiquitous application: Excel.

Microsoft released seven advisories on Patch Tuesday–all rated critical–with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser.

Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista.