Ara Trembly

Steering a car with one’s eyes seems like a neat idea ... until you look the wrong way.

Planned acquisition of compliance specialist firm will pay dividends in an industry sharply focused on complying.

A university study implies that young people are just as concerned as baby boomers about online privacy, but the details tell a different story.

Letting customers do the work for themselves obviously saves money for insurers, but why don’t more customers do it?

Recent security breaches have focused attention on Indian outsourcers at a time when they can least afford it.

A federal court says the FCC has no authority to regulate broadband Internet providers, but a free-market will still create opportunities.

Two senators warn of impending disaster, but some seem to think the threat is overblown.

It’s no surprise that customers don’t relate well to the machinations of our customer-facing software.

As a trillion-dollar industry managed by political cronies and policed by the IRS, government-run health care is a series of problems waiting to happen.

The Chinese government and Google both seek the moral high ground, but China’s record on the Web reveals hypocrisy.

Thinking globally and acting locally, Patni follows the example of Mitsubishi and others that have brought jobs to the United States.

Would Apple’s show of appreciation land it in hot water with Obama’s salary watchdog?

Sure, online health care will save time and money, but it will also alienate patients from their providers.

A new, more robust version of the federal government’s intrusion detection program could be a blessing for U.S. businesses, but already the specter of invasion of privacy is being raised.

Everyone agrees that something needs to be done, but crooks know they can count on government for a phlegmatic response.

IT is a world unto itself, and that’s part of the problem when it proves to be ineffective.

The federal government seems keen on developing commercial space flight technologies, but how do we insure those who go where very few men have gone before?

The Associated Press reported recently that the FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of “secretly activating webcams inside students' homes.” The FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws by activating the webcams in laptops that the school owns and distributes to students.

Just about everyone dreams of making that big splash, that big score or that big impression that catapults themselves into fame, stardom, renown and/or lots of money. Just ask the thousands who waited for days at each of the audition sites for a chance to sing for 20 seconds in front of the American Idol judges.

Google Buzz users went nuts when their contacts were assembled without their consent, but other social media users are only too happy to air every piece of dirty laundry in their baskets to anyone who will listen.