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An Internet Security Paradox? Despite Badware's Reach, Americans Report Widespread Confidence in Their Safety Online
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Katie Hallen, +1-202-463-0013 x213, for StopBadware.org StopBadware.orgs Maxim Weinstein Will Testify on Educating Users About the Dangers of Phishing at Federal Trade Commission April 1 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 90 percent of Americans say they feel safe online despite the rising tide...
Tags: FTC, INTERNET, paradox, Phishing, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-03-31
Hoggartian paradox
Sir: For a second time Simon Hoggart takes aim at The Blair Years, on which I was the principal interviewer. In his column of 8 December Arts, he was cross about the fact that the programmes were made by the company Juniper TV, describing various links between its personnel and...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., E-mail, Juniper Networks Inc., paradox, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-05
Paradoxes of legislatures
Capitalism and democracy have coexisted in so many countries in the last two centuries that they appear to stand in a cause-and-effect relationship. However, it has become ever clearer that capitalism does not inevitably lead to democracy. That they frequently coexist only demonstrates that they are compatible. Yet, despite this...
Tags: decision-making, democracy, Government, legislator, paradox, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-07-01
Enhancing the accountability of credit rating agencies: the case for a disclosure-based approach.(Canada)
Credit rating agencies ("CRAs") play a vital role in enabling financial markets to operate efficiently by acting as informational intermediaries specializing in the appraisal of the creditworthiness of corporations that issue debt. Despite their importance, however, rating agencies remain unregulated private institutions. The recent wave...
Tags: accountability, agency, analyst, bond, DES, financial, Fitch, investor, M., MARKETING, Paradox, regulation, regulator, SEC, security, U.S., Walter
Research articles 2006-12-22
The CEO's New Rules for Driving Strategic Change
Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....
Tags: CEO, Sean Silverthorne, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Strategy, Performance Management, Leadership, Paradox
Blog posts 2008-02-28
India lags in domestic deployment of IT.
The Economic Times, India Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--PUNE, India -- This is the paradox of India's IT success: it has brought the country international recognition as an IT super-power, but the country has lagged in the domestic deployment of IT....
Tags: Economic Times, Government, India, Microsoft Corp., paradox, Strategy
Research articles 2004-12-01
Transformation through Compassionate Mission: David J. Bosch's Theology of Contextualization.(Book Review)
Transformation Through Compassionate Mission: David J. Bosch's Theology of Contextualization. By Tiina Ahonen. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society, 2003. Pp. 280. Paperback 24 [euro]. This thorough, well-argued doctoral dissertation was part of the Gospel and Cultures project at the University of Helsinki. Ahonen leads...
Tags: paradox, Strategy, University of Helsinki
Research articles 2004-10-01
Customer collaboration without fear.(Living The Paradox)
A new study from consulting firm Deloitte finds that the vast majority of manufacturers say they are more customer-centric than their competitors, but few back that up with customer-centric practices. Building off a benchmark survey of more than 700 manufacturers, the firm looked closely at this...
Tags: Collaboration, Deloitte LLP, Groupware, manufacturer, Manufacturing, paradox, SOFTWARE, Strategy
Research articles 2004-09-01
Customer collaboration without fear (MSI)
A new study from consulting firm Deloitte finds that the vast majority of manufacturers say they are more customer-centric than their competitors, but few back that up with customer-centric practices. Building off a benchmark survey of more than 700 manufacturers, the firm looked closely at this "customer collaboration paradox." MSI...
Tags: Collaboration, Deloitte LLP, Groupware, manufacturer, Manufacturing, paradox, SOFTWARE, Strategy
Research articles 2004-09-01
Hutchings, Vincent L. Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics.(Book Review)
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 192 pp, $35.00, ISBN 0-691-11416-1 Publication Date: October 2003 Vincent L. Hutchings begins where most scholars of representation in American politics do--with the paradox of an inattentive public being represented by a responsive set of political elites....
Tags: accountability, FINANCE, MARKETING, media, paradox, Princeton University, scholar
Research articles 2004-01-01
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change.(Book Review)
By Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 312 pp. $29.95. Zaman's book might seem to have little to offer those interested in current Middle East issues. His focus is almost entirely on Pakistan and to a lesser extent India. And despite the...
Tags: Leadership, paradox, Princeton University
Research articles 2004-01-01
Commentary on "a review of research on the negative accounting relationship between risk and return: Bowman's paradox by M.N. Nickel and M.C. Rodriguez".
The February 2002 issue of Omega contains an article by M.N. Nickel and M.C. Rodriguez which reviews and evaluates research dealing with what is called the "Bowman Paradox" in the literature of strategic management. Using accounting reports from business firms this paradox arises from the persistent showing that risk and...
Tags: accounting, Benefits, Cooper, FINANCE, financial, Investment, Omega, paradox, Risk, strategy
Research articles 2003-10-01
A party of choice
Vicenti, Carey N. Indian Country Today Lakota Times 09-18-2002 Voting in the United States for Indian people is a paradox. No other right in the American legal system is more symbolic of a Native person's "inclusion" into the political body of the...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government, Leadership, paradox, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2002-09-18
A guide to the 2002 ASIS Exhibits. (Databases - Locks).
DATABASES Air Security International: 220 Competitive Edge Software, Inc.: 2804 Complete Computer Service Ltd.: 3428 DICE Corporation: 3501 Digital Security Concepts, Inc.: 465 ENSCO, Inc.: 3914 iJET Travel Intelligence,...
Tags: Apollo, Companies, database, Datacard Group, electronics, Iris, LLC, network, Paradox, SECURITY, Sterling, Van
Research articles 2002-09-01
Social Complexity in the Making.(Book Review)
A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea Donald Tuzin, University of California at San Diego, USA 'Admirably concise and accessible, Tuzin's Social Complexity in the Making ... fairly bristles with insight into religion, kinship, power relations, and the...
Tags: paradox, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, University of California
Research articles 2002-09-01
Get on the tea information superhighway: Barry P. Cooper, incoming chairman of the Tea Association of the USA, gave the following speech at the 103rd Annual Tea Convention in Bermuda this past October.(Brief Article)
The world as we know it has changed forever. That much we all know. So is the paradox of our industry changing. I say paradox because we are a huge global industry stretching across nations and cultures and yet we are a very parochial, intimate trade. We...
Tags: Cooper, paradox, Strategy
Research articles 2002-02-20
THE AMERICAN PARADOX: SPIRITUAL HUNGER IN AN AGE OF PLENTY.(Review) (book review)
THE AMERICAN PARADOX: SPIRITUAL HUNGER IN AN AGE OF PLENTY. By DAVID G. MYERS. Yale University Press. 412 pp. $29.95. A comprehensive survey of "communitarian" initiatives in thought and public polio. The author, professor of psychology at Hope College, Michigan, proposes a hopeful reading...
Tags: MARKETING, paradox, Yale University
Research articles 2000-11-01
Do-gooders and double standards
Do-gooders and Double Standards By JOHN PODHORETZ JOHN B. JUDIS. The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust. PANTHEON BOOKS. 320 PAGES. $26.00. BACK IN THE DAYS When the most popular self-help business book Was called The One-Minute Manager, some of my friends devised...
Tags: Benefits, capitalism, elite, Ford Motor Co., HEALTHCARE, Paradox, SOFTWARE, standards, worker
Research articles 2000-04-01
Shades of Gay
In their small town in central Pennsylvania, Gary and Greg, both in their late 30s, are known to neighbors simply as "the guys." The town is fairly conservative, and the two men thought twice before buying a house there. But Greg grew up nearby and trusted the people. In two...
Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Greg, Manufacturing, Newsweek, paradox, Taxes, uncle
Research articles 2000-03-20
Spectroscopy highlights paradoxes in theories.
US research may help to resolve an apparent paradox between the different theories of superconductivity. Jointly conducted at Stanford University, California, USA, and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LBNL, the work could eventually explain how ceramics based on copper oxides...
Tags: paradox, Stanford University, theory
Research articles 1999-12-01
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