There will be 350 million business and consumer users of wireless e-mail worldwide by 2010, says Stamford, CT-based information technology research and advisory company Gartner.The latest research report from Gartner has predicted that the increasing accessibility of products and services will allow 350 million business and consumer users access to wireless e-mail by 2010, meaning that 20 percent of all e-mail accounts will be wireless enabled.Across the world, there are fewer than 20 mill

The time wasted working on bad spreadsheets is a bigger practical problem than errors within Excel models, a leading spreadsheet error expert concluded at the recent European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) conference in London.Presenting the results of a detailed study of errors in 25 sample spreadsheets, Stephen Powell from the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire found that 15 workbooks contained a total of 117 errors.

Microsoft Excel is the newest packaging spammers have created for their stock pump-and-dump scams, Commtouch Software has reported, based on the Company's analysis of billions of e-mail messages globally.

Business and practice software developer Sage claims to have discovered a "new breed" of accountant willing to embrace technology and an entrepreneurial approach to running their practice.In a survey of 267 practitioners entitled A new breed of accountant, Sage asked them to define themselves according to their growth ambitions and business aspirations in the following categories:Sole practitioner - offering traditional services to estab

The latest technologies and gadgets make it incredibly easy for your data to be stolen from right under your nose, unless you take steps to protect it.

Search engine giant Google is expanding its range into business site search engines facilities with a new search engine starting from $100 a year.The company claims that the hosted Google Custom Search Business Edition can be implemented on a business website in less than 10 minutes and will give visitors better search results once they arrive.The new service expands on the free Custom Search Engine, which includes Google AdWords links alongside the site's own search results and offers some faciliti

Enhancing 401(k) programs with automatic features can generate a double-barreled investment success, enabling employees to save more for retirement and employers to better recruit and retain those employees.That key finding is in a new AARP-commissioned report, "Enhancing 401(k) Value and Participation: Taking the Automatic Approach," released this week by AARP and prepared by global professional services firm Towers Perrin."AARP believes workers should have access to effective retirement plans, and automatic retirement programs are a double-barreled investment success," noted Jon Dauphi

Taking an online course or participating in a teleconference is quite different from sitting in a classroom and attending a live, in-person presentation.Traditionally, we think of training experiences and presentations as live classroom or auditorium events. But technology has taken center state and given us many more options for virtual alternatives.

The convenience, flexibility and low cost of online continuing professional education has contributed to a marketplace that now includes the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' (AICPA) CPExpress, the Institute of Internal Auditors' (IIA) IIAonlineCPE Courses, and most recently, the Institute of Management Accountants' (IMA) online professional education site, IMA Knowledge Exchange and CPEdge. Packages and prices vary but all of the associations feature access to CPE courses through annual subscriptions.