Michelle Perry, AccountancyAge, Friday 11 April 2008 at 00:00:00US companies cannot blame complexity of accounting rules forrestatements, new studies show.The number of restatements by US companies has begun to decline, accordingto new research which also indicated that they may be

Penny Sukhraj, AccountancyAge, Friday 11 April 2008 at 00:00:00His contract with the firm, which constitutes advising on public servicereforms, is expected to run for a yearLabour's Charles Clarke, whose career spanned the prominent roles of botheducation secretary and home secretary,

Rachel O'Neill, AccountancyAge, Friday 11 April 2008 at 00:00:00PwC released a report showing an increase in federal class-actionshareholder lawsuits in 2007 compared to a decline in the two previousyears.Shareholder lawsuits are on the increase, PwC has said. In 2007 163

LinuxSecurity.com: gnome-screensaver allows local users to bypass authentication under certain configurations.

LinuxSecurity.com: policyd-weight uses temporary files in an insecure manner, allowing for a symlink attack.

They say that every dog has its day. Could the growing popularity of Asus's low-cost EEE notebook launch Puppy Linux into the limelight?

The recent availability of Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake in Symbian-friendly guises got Ewan wondering how easy or hard it would be to get Quake working, in all its majesty, on a Nokia N95. Here's his Quake for S60 tutorial, with

Smartphones may have evolved since the first Nokia Communicator, butwhat made that phone such a success was the telnet client - systemadmins could fix their IT infrastructure from anywhere. Smartphonesevolve, but managing your IT from the handset is still a

You cannot imagine how much you can do with your iPhone unless you explore what applications you can download and use in your phone. You can turn your iPhone into a a reader, a chat messenger and a lot more

A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - policyd-weight: Insecure temporary file creation. Here the announcement:

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0214

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0214

New nVidia Linux display drivers are available

A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - gnome-screensaver: Privilege escalation. Here the announcement:

The VAR Guy: "But as Canonical gears up for a server push, one key Ubuntu partner plans to sit on the sidelines..."

CNET News: "It's about time that United States elite academic institutions finally got around to not only using open-source software, but also teaching it..."

InformationWeek: "As soon as former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now a Sun Microsystems senior VP for databases, took the stage, he was asked what was Sun's commitment to the L in LAMP...?"

ConsortiumInfo: "Texas, as you may recall, is one of six states in 2007 that considered whether to take legislative action in connection with open document standards..."

BetaNews: "We can't call it 'Office Open XML' anymore, because it no longer belongs to Microsoft Office exclusively..."