A new Australian study says that if you’re a crabby old curmudgeon without any friends, you may have trouble-finding pallbearers at your early funeral. Okay so I paraphrased.

International accounting firm KPMG has published the results of its latest survey on corporate responsibility reporting.

I was reading the press release issued yesterday by Ketchum Public Relations announcing their new service offering called Ketchum Personalized Media: “a global service that advises organizations to know how, why and when to integrate the growing roster of online and wireless media – from blogs and podcasts to mobile marketing – into their overall communications strategy,” according to the announcement.

The US House of Representatives says it’s not okay to spy on somebody’s reading habits by knocking down the renewal of one provision of the USA Patriot Act 238-187.

By now it has probably been emphasized by practically anyone with insight into search engine optimization – myself included – that keyword-relevant content is extremely relevant in any search engine optimization (SEO) plan.

When I first started studying for my CCNA years ago, one of the (many) things that confused me was ARP. Or rather, what ARP did as opposed to Reverse ARP, Inverse ARP, and Proxy ARP! One book would mention ARP without mentioning the other variations, one woule mention RARP but not Proxy ARP, and so on…

While most heads of PC makers cowered from speaking on the record, due to their fear of Microsoft, a certain Texas-based executive spoke out.

I want to tell you how I go about writing headlines. I like to keep a swap files of headlines around for future use. And how I go about doing it goes something like this…

A new service debuting late Wednesday night lets users search through various subscription services.

Somewhere Sony founder Akio Morita is smiling. As the world baby steps to a completely digital format for movies, music and other entertainment, VHS is slowly being left behind for the DVD format.

The Department of justice has launched a criminal investigation into illegal tax shelter services previously offered by former partners of accounting firm KPMG LLP.

Two masked Cambodian gunmen were killed and four were arrested after a six-hour standoff with police outside an international school in Siem Reap, but not before they executed a three-year-old Canadian boy.

Science, it’s the way humans organize facts about our environment into terms we can understand. By environment I don’t mean just the trees, I mean everything around us. The information organized and based on observation and testing and genuine thought. In some cases, there is room for interpretation. The statistics can always be read one way or another.

I received a press release in my email overnight from Stuart Jacobson at Santa Cruz Networks announcing vSkype, what looks to be a very cool tool for holding video conference calls via Skype.

Airbus has now surpassed Boeing in plane orders for this year now that Interglobe Enterprises airline IndiGo has ordered 100 of their A320 planes.

Three weeks ahead of the Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 summit, ministers and officials from the G8 countries agreed on a new international database.

A letter from the nation’s largest wireless provider to the FAA advises it to keep the ban in place.

Oil prices continue the surge today as light sweet crude came within 10 cents of $57 a barrel. The prices continue to edge toward the all time high set back in early April clearing the $58 mark and most watchers say cracking $60 is only a matter of time.

Does the prospect of starting a new career seem daunting? Are you unwilling to wade through the Monster.com inundation? If so, perhaps there is another career utility offering the services you desire.

Businesses in the U.K. face a sophisticated series of targeted Trojan e-mail attacks originating from somewhere in Asia.

Ian Lipner, of YoungPRPros, has launched a compensation and job satisfaction survey for North American public relations practitioners. Survey respondents will receive the full results of the survey-free of charge. Everyone else will get an executive summary. ALL responses will be completely anonymous and individual responses will NOT be shared with anyone.

Users of the superfast file sharing system have been finding hidden surprises on their computers.