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Anti-corruption body slams major export countries
in Sox First, on June 25, 2009
...nternational has condemned some of the world's biggest exporters for failing to tackle bribery corruption. In its latest report , the anti-corruption body said some of the world's worst exa...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ortunities for fraud, according to a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 billion out of the $5 trillion, equivalent to Japan's national...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...and criminal groups, financing and procurement of weapons of mass destruction, money laundering and corruption among foreign governments and companies". "Candidates with a bachelor's or...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...s well as universal norms and values around human rights, labor rights, the environment and against corruption—such as those captured by the United Nations Global Compact and other international...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...step further, identifying five animal forces that drive investment decisions: confidence, fairness, corruption and anti social behavior and money illusion and stories we tell each about the market, im...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...r of time before people are dragged before the courts. Barofsky says you don't need widespread corruption for these sorts of frauds to emerge. "You only need a few corrupt managers whose com...
Is the US becoming like Russia?
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...sure and manage risks." Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf says it's not that bad. Corruption for one thing isn't as rampant as it is in Russia. But he says restructuring is necessa...
Latino Political Power Under Obama
in Latina Viva, on January 24, 2009
...drew from consideration as secretary of commerce because a grand jury is probing possible political corruption in his home state. You can read the whole piece by Politico here .
© Mike Disharoon...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 19, 2009
... about its chances of getting its insurers to pay a big chunk of the $1.3 billion it paid to settle corruption probes in the United States and Germany. And that's a worry because it leaves you...
Corporate ethics and law
in Sox First, on January 9, 2009
...entry on the difference between ethics and morality. Moral decisions, around issues like theft and corruption, are absolutes regardless of time or culture. They are just wrong, wherever they happen. ...
Creative Destruction? This Recessions is Partly the Change of an Era...
in TJ's Weblog, on December 26, 2008
...t of this period of creative destruction (as Wilson calls it) is the result of a period of creative corruption. Especially in the financial sector, people used tools created by the Information Age tog...
State of the Console: Wii Celebrates its 2nd Anniversary Today: Let's Look At The Wii's Best Games
in House of Nintendo, on November 19, 2008
...lly a sign of things to come.
6. Zack and Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros Treasure
5. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
4. No More Heroes
3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
...o slush funds. But it won't stop there. The International Herald Tribune report suggests the corruption was spread pretty deep through the company. As one of them told the court: "I wasn&#...
Britain is a laggard on bribery
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...nto force. Compare that with the 103 cases in the US. Secondly, Britain does not actually have anti-corruption legislation. And that's despite the OECD convention being in place for over a decade....
Oil watchdog's "corruption"
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
...the US Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service and its so-called "cult of corruption". A report shows that the energy industry was lavishing the agency's employees ...
BAE - more bribery allegations
in Sox First, on October 1, 2008
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Defense contractor BAE Systems is reeling from allegations that it was involved in bribery and corruption in relation to the Al-Yamamah arms contract with Saudi Arabia. As a result, the Financial...
Siemens, corruption and corporate social responsibility
in Sox First, on September 25, 2008
The fallout from the Siemens saga continues with trials of two figures, including a former board member, now well under way, reports Deutsche Welle . Charges are around invoices for work that was never done, and the misappropriation of company funds. And it's just the beginning. Which migh...
Corporate fraud soars
in Sox First, on September 15, 2008
...s. The healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors also reported increased problems with corruption and theft of assets and stock. Fraud will always be there. But tougher economic conditio...
KBR bribery case goes deep
in Sox First, on September 5, 2008
...m KBR, Albert Stanley, is facing seven years in the slammer after pleading guilty to charges of corruption relating to Nigerian deals, according to news reports . But this case could extend deep ...
10 Key Questions for Selecting a Continuous Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution
in On Storage, on August 20, 2008
...nsure both the data and the registry can be rolled back?
protect from all types of failures (data corruption or data loss , operating system performance, network issues and hardware issues)?
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Siemens - a disaster waiting to happen
in Sox First, on August 19, 2008
...reports that Siemens had basically set up systems that had its managers aiding and abetting in the corruption. Based on the disclosures, here, it seems that Siemens' widespread corruption was th...
OECD slams Britain on failure to fix corruption
in Sox First, on August 18, 2008
...g to to bring a single overseas bribery case or to deliver on a years-old pledge to update its anti-corruption laws. That's quite a contrast to the US which has filed dozens of corruption cases ov...
Rebuilding the corrupt organization
in Sox First, on August 8, 2008
...r, is whether the model has actually been tested. There are some organizations where the culture of corruption is too strong. In those cases, it's like groundhog Day. Things just keep drift...
First Siemens conviction
in Sox First, on July 28, 2008
... first Siemens manager has been convicted in the trial into the engineering group's bribery and corruption, according to the latest news . Reinhard Siekaczek (pictured above) has been given a he...
CherryPal Redefines Cloud Computing
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 21, 2008
... desktop computer. There is almost no chance of hardware failure and very little chance of software corruption. This is pretty trouble-free computing.
The CherryPal Cloud computer will feature Freesc...
Corrupt raiders
in Sox First, on July 17, 2008
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Some traditions die hard. Corruption in the old Soviet Union was always an issue. But now it's taken on a very different form: corporate raiding. According to this article in the Moscow Time...
Now no more bribes to obtain driving licenses in India, courtesy RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on July 15, 2008
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Indians are certainly not known for their driving skills and most of this is attributed to corruption at the various regional transport authority offices issuing driving licenses without even c...
BAE vows to clean up
in Sox First, on June 30, 2008
... in the wake of the Woolf Report into the company's ethics following allegations of bribery and corruption, and the Serious Fraud Office's controversial decision to abandon an investigation in...
Global corruption and water
in Sox First, on June 27, 2008
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The world is in the grip of a water crisis and government corruption is making it worse, according to a new Transparency International report . According to the report, corruption adds significa...
Losing the anti-bribery fight
in Sox First, on June 24, 2008
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About 10 years after the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and it looks like the battle against corruption is going nowhere. According to a Transparency International report , has found that mor...
Earthquake funds and sneakers
in Sox First, on June 14, 2008
...ome and abroad has been donated for quake relief and President Hu Jintao has repeatedly warned that corruption is one of the biggest threats to the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party. Once again...
WVU President Resigns, Finally
in The Universities Weblog, on June 6, 2008
...executive Heather Bresch. The tangled web of relationships involved in this story made suspicion of corruption almost impossible to avoid. Bresch and Garrison are long time friends. According to the P...
Zeroing in on BAE
in Sox First, on May 22, 2008
...nd another executive at George Bush International Airport. The DOJ is investigation BAE for alleged corruption and if found guilty, the company could be forced to repay billions of dollars in profit s...
News from the FCPA front
in Sox First, on May 16, 2008
...at the US Justice Department has started targeting inidviduals, not just companies, for bribery and corruption. This is quite strategic. It not only puts the heat on individuals, but it also substanti...
Global corruption on the rise
in Sox First, on May 14, 2008
...ws that one in four executives around the world has experienced at least one incident of bribery or corruption in the last two years and 23 per cent admitted their organisation had been approached to ...
ZFS Demo - Self Healing with ZFS
in On Storage, on May 11, 2008
...ealing feature with ZFS.
In this demo you are quickly taken through how ZFS can recover from data corruption in mirrored volumes. The demo first starts by creating a storage pool comprised of two di...
The EXCITEMENT of ZFS
in On Storage, on May 8, 2008
...rve up volumes explicitly for raw devices.
RAID-Z: Similar to raid 5 but eliminates stripe corruption with a variable stripe width, removes the need for NVRAM in hardware, and allows for disk ...
The business of corruption
in Sox First, on April 29, 2008
Call it the Sarbanes-Oxley effect. With Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Flowserve Corporation and AB Volvo coming to grief over the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - that's three FCPA actions in the first months of 2008 - lawyers are predicting another record year is in sto...
VMware Fusion 1.1.2
in M2 十字街口, on April 26, 2008
VMware 官方 Blog 消息 ，Mac OS X 上的虚拟软件 VMware Fusion 新的 1.1.2 版本已经发布了。主要是增加了对于 Time Machine 的支持，更好的兼容了 MacBook Air（修正了大量与之有关的 Bug），同时还增加了简体中文语言。详细的更新列表如下：
BAE-Saudi appeal
in Sox First, on April 24, 2008
...ondon overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. Now we have the Serious...
Mac OS X 10.5.3 9D23 测试版
in M2 十字街口, on April 23, 2008
9D22 发放没几天，Apple 又向开发者发放了了 Mac OS X 10.5.3 新的测试版，版本号 9D23，这一版本之后，已知问题的列表已经被清空，根据 Apple 的非正式说法，Mac OS X 10.5.3 距离正式发布已经不远了。以下是详细的 Seed Note：
Pirate Bay causes contraversy once more...
in P2P File Sharing, on April 18, 2008
...der the employ of Warner Brothers, one of the major companies in the upcoming trial.
This reaks of corruption and scandel...was Jim paid by Warner to start the case? Nobody knows so far, hopefully th...
BAE bribery fallout
in Sox First, on April 14, 2008
...ondon overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. The Serious Fraud Office...
Default Folder X 4.0.3
in M2 十字街口, on April 4, 2008
Default Folder X 是一款 Mac OS X 上的小工具，可以方便的帮助用户记忆一些文件存储的位置，更易于定位常用的文档和文件夹位置。最新的 4.0.3 版本在 4.0 版本全面兼容新版 Leopard 的操作系统，以及修复大量 bug 之外，还有如下更新：
More Siemens woes
in Sox First, on March 20, 2008
...f a sudden. Which raises questions about whether they are all that effective changing Siemens' corruption-prone culture. No surprises then that despite the attempts to transform the company and w...
How To Spot A Leader
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 12, 2008
The governor of New York State has been caught with his pants down , metaphorically speaking.
In fact, he had his pants down practically speaking a number of times, according to the FBI when it uncovered his involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring.
Saudi and BAE threats: drop the corruption probe
in Sox First, on February 15, 2008
... terrorists to pull off another attack on London if the British Government continued with its corruption investigations into their arms deals. There are also secret files showing that the arm...
FCPA prosecutions to increase
in Sox First, on February 8, 2008
...ate-owned company. These indirect relationships are responsible for 60 to 70 percent of all the big corruption cases. For example, you have to know your agents, be assured they are doing the right thi...
Suharto's legacy
in Sox First, on January 27, 2008
...e age of 86. Suharto's iron-fisted rule bought economic growth but also ushered in nepotism and corruption. And Suharto's legacy of corruption and shady business dealings go back a long way. ...
Sponsored Post: Mobile Phones the New Social Activism Weapon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 21, 2008
... Imagine a simple text message can inspire the whole country to protect democracy against greed and corruption. Call it weird or crazy but that's what exactly happened in the Philippines when they...
The Writing On The wall
in Sox First, on January 7, 2008
...wth is more the result of good fortune than good management. Hutton argues that China is riddled by corruption. More importantly, it lacks the basic freedoms and institutions we take for granted in th...
Wallet 2.7
in M2 十字街口, on January 5, 2008
Wallet 软件就是所谓的电子钱包，这是一款用于 Mac OS X 操作系统的个人财务助理与密码管理软件，可帮助管理信用卡、银行账户等财务信息，以及各类密码、注册信息等。最新版 2.7 主要针对 Leopard 新版操作系统进行了界面上的改进之外，还增加了一些信息特性：
Microsoft Home Server Bug Could Corrupt Files
in Networking for Pros, on January 2, 2008
...crosoft has described a bug in its newly released Home Server product that could corrupt files. The corruption occurs when certain programs are used to edit files before they're saved to the Home ...
New BMW X6 Coupe: Definitely Not a Coupe. Or Coupé
in Classical Drives, on December 29, 2007
... 2002's sold in Manhattan. I'll excuse them on one thing, however. Long before the current corruption of the C-word, the UK's Rover took one of its elegant P5 4-door sedans, lowered the ro...
Alcatel pays fine to settle bribery claim
in Sox First, on December 27, 2007
...inst the Chinese anti-graft authorities. If bribe takers are not punished, sporadic exposes of such corruption scandals will do nothing to deter future offenders." Given that baksheesh seems to ...
IGN Selects Wii Games of the Year
in House of Nintendo, on December 25, 2007
...ad, and we'll have some better winners in this category.
Best Adventure Game: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Beating out Zak and Wiki, Nintendo's conclusion to the Dark Samus trilogy wins this ...
Siemens: the scandal that won't go away
in Sox First, on December 15, 2007
...ding scandal. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that Norwegian military officers have been charged with corruption, after allegedly accepting bribes in the form of gifts, expensive dinners and Luxurious...
Bribery update
in Sox First, on December 11, 2007
...that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in Britain is to relaunch its criminal investigation of alleged corruption and kickbacks at the armaments producer. That's only a year after Tony Blair and Lord...
Corruption on the rise
in Sox First, on December 10, 2007
... the judiciary and registry and permit services, according Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer 2007 . According to the study, most people believe political parties, parliame...
Iraq's accounting black hole
in Sox First, on December 7, 2007
... blog entry highlighting how Iraq was an accounting black hole that's vulnerable to fraud and corruption. Now we have revelations from CBS that $1 billion of military equipment has gone missi...
Olympic Officials Plan to Evict 13,000 People
in The Outdoor Weblog, on December 5, 2007
...over China who came to complain to the central government about land seizures, forced evictions and corruption, COHRE said.
"Evictions in Beijing often involve the complete demolition of ...
The 2007 Wii and DS Buyer's Guide: Part 3
in House of Nintendo, on December 5, 2007
...i FPS game, and an "under the radar" Dragon Quest spinoff .
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
With the obvious implications for FPS controls, Wii fans have waited since the co...
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10 正式发布(附 Portable 中文版)
in Wangtam, on November 27, 2007
如上周预告，Mozilla 基金会于本周正式发布了 Mozilla Firefox 的 最新版本 2.0.0.10。根据 Release Notes 显示，主要的问题修复包括：
Subprime everywhere
in Sox First, on November 19, 2007
... to worse. How did we get into this mess? Diane Francis at the National Post says it's about corruption and that it's actually a crime story. "At the bottom was a corrupt system that h...
Iraq fraud probes
in Sox First, on October 29, 2007
...an also go to a lot of trouble producing files that look squeaky clean. What that means is that the corruption probe is a good start but it won't stop the graft and profiteering.
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Southern Illinois U. Faculty Call for President's Resignation
in The Universities Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...ce November of 2005. In August of this year a group calling itself "Alumni and Faculty Against Corruption at SIU" accused Poshard of plagiarism in his 1984 doctoral dissertation. While the d...
Hillary Releases Higher Ed Proposal
in The Universities Weblog, on October 12, 2007
...an industry has been chastised recently for deceptive marketing practice, conflict of interest, and corruption. Congress is also targeting student loan funding.
Paul Weinstein Jr. is one commentator...
Siemens fined, more to come
in Sox First, on October 5, 2007
...orcement agency, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for corruption are all investigating. And the NYSE-listed company could incur significant penalties from ...
