How to keep 'work from home' employees accountable without spying

Follow:   04.01.2013  View in a Browser How to keep 'work from home' employees accountablewithout spying 04.01.2013 3:00 AM We all hear the jokes about employees not-really-working at home. If you're not sure what remote employees are up to, use these tech tools and management tips to get the most out of them and take the worry out of your work-at-home policy. (Surprise: Spying is not the best answer.) Ransomware boosts credibility by reading victims' browsers 04.01.2013 10:23 AM The authors of police-themed ransomware have started using the browsing histories from infected computers in order to make their scams more believable, according to an independent malware researcher. -ADVERTISEMENT-   BE HEARD! Help us decide what books to write with this one question poll. PCWorld Magazine Digital versions now available on every device! Learn more.   Controversial cab, ride-share apps reshape the face of transportation 04.01.2013 3:00 AM Cities around the country are adapting to a new world in which transportation apps let you hail cabs, reserve private cars, or share rides with a few taps on your smartphones screen. Here's a status report from the front lines. Spruce up your Facebook chats with fancy emoticons 04.01.2013 3:26 AM Forget boring old smileys. This site lets you pepper your chats with bullet holes, Bob Marley, cute quotes, and lots more. Ego Smartmouse puts other input devices to shame 04.01.2013 6:30 AM Mousing technology will take a giant leap forward with the Ego Smartmouse. Google Glass: Who gets to explore it first, and why 04.01.2013 7:20 AM A Stanford student charts the details about which Twitter users won Google Glass competition and the pitches that got them into the circle of earliest users. U.S. patent office rebuffs Apple's iPad Mini trademark request 04.01.2013 7:20 AM The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has provisionally denied Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini" because the term is "merely descriptive" of the tablet's size. Game of Thrones creators say piracy doesn't harm profits 04.01.2013 7:31 AM HBO's "Game of Thrones" is the most-pirated show on the Net, but the series' creators say all the sharing isn't affecting DVD sales. The simple, practical way to share a Dropbox folder 04.01.2013 7:57 AM Karen uses Dropbox, and wants to share files with people who don't have--or want--a Dropbox account. Windows 8 slowly gains market share traction, analysis shows 04.01.2013 8:20 AM Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market share, though its still lagging behind Vista, according to the March market statistics from Net Applications. The Pirate Bay captures the file-sharing crown 04.01.2013 9:02 AM The popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay is now the number one destination for file-sharing on the Internet, despite numerous attempts to sink it over the years. Review: Krento is a productivity-boosting launcher and Start-menu replacement 04.01.2013 9:36 AM Krento is a feature-rich launcher, widget manager, and Start-menu replacement that can launch any file, folder, program, or website you can think of.       You are subscribed to this newsletter as: messi1927@gmail.com More PCWorld Newsletters / Manage Subscriptions / Unsubscribe IDG Consumer & SMB Privacy Policy © 2012 IDGCSMB, 501 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107