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Financial Software Company Cuts Travel by 60 Percent With Web Conferencing
White Papers XRT provides financial software solutions designed to assist corporations in maintaining and controlling their cash flow operations. As a company with 10 offices around the globe, Web conferencing was fast becoming an invaluable means of...
[September 14, 2006, 0:00]
Software Development Company Cuts Travel, Collaboration Costs With Web Conferencing
White Papers Pacific MindWorks, based in San Diego, develops software for the electronic test and measurement industry. The company has fewer than 10 employees, and therefore staff time is extremely important. Pacific MindWorks used its customers' WebEx to...
[September 14, 2006, 0:00]
eBay Consolidates E-Mail Servers 71 Percent, Supports Rapid Growth While It Cuts Costs
White Papers As eBay's business grew, so did its messaging infrastructure - to 85 servers in 25 locations around the world. The widely dispersed deployment was driving up costs and driving down effectiveness. To ensure both scalability and cost-effectiveness...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
Mail System Cuts Licence and Hardware Costs 40 Per Cent, Management Costs 20 Per Cent
White Papers Dohler is a leading manufacturer of fruit juice concentrates, compounds, purees, and flavourings for the beverage and dairy industries. The company, which employs 1,600 people, uses e-mail and electronic calendars to support its international...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
Florida Boosts Productivity, Cuts Run Times With High-Performance Computing Cluster
White Papers Sixteen counties in Florida depend on South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) to manage and protect their water resources. Since 2002, SFWMD has been testing Linux-based and Windows-based high-performance computing clusters.
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Supply-Chain Solution Cuts Costs 15 Percent, Boosts Customer Service for ASIC Maker
White Papers ASIC manufacturer Open-Silicon needed a better way to track yields. So, it turned to an integrated financial and supply-chain management solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tensoft. The solution, including Microsoft Dynamics GP and...
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Channel 4 cuts Big Brother Web feed
News Big Brother's Web site suffered an outage last night as the housemates' growing concerns over Nick reached breaking point. Craig, who has been nominated for eviction this Friday, "cottoned on to the fact that Nicholas has been rigging the voting...
[August 17, 2000, 11:07]
Northern and Shell Cuts Costs With Streamlined, Simplified Financial Management Processes
White Papers Northern and Shell Group Ltd owns and publishes a wide range of media titles including the Daily Express, Daily Star, OK! And various television channels. The challenges were to streamline financial management, enforce best practice processes...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
NHS IT chief warns against local budget cuts
News The financial meltdown in some healthcare authorities across the country will not hit funding for the rollout of the £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, according to NHS IT director general Richard Granger.
[May 26, 2006, 9:50]
Cutthroat market forces Seagate job cuts
News In another sign of trouble in the disk drive industry, Seagate Technology said on Wednesday that it plans to cut its annual operating costs by about $150m and trim its workforce. The drive maker said industrywide demand for drives going into...
[June 3, 2004, 9:05]
'Power failure' cuts off Yahoo users
News Yahoo has apologised to its users in the UK after many were left without access to mail, instant messaging and search facilities over part of the weekend. Some Yahoo-related forums carried complaints as far back as Saturday, but a spokesperson for...
[July 24, 2006, 15:50]
CompuServe cuts jobs after loss
News Struggling CompuServe plans to slash costs after reporting a $29.6 million loss for its first financial quarter, ending July 31. The online service said it is in the process of cutting 150 jobs and plans to close its Sprysoft Internet software...
[August 23, 1996, 11:23]
EMC cuts forecasts after inventory slip
News Storage specialist EMC has cut its projected revenues for 2006, after reporting on Friday that profits for the second quarter were down on last year. EMC made a net profit of $279m (£152m) in the three months to 30 June, compared with $293m for the...
[July 14, 2006, 17:10]
News Burst: Net investment firm cuts staff
News Tough times are settling in for dot-com investment firms in the UK. The latest effect: Internet incubator eSouk.com Thursday axed nearly three-quarters of its staff, according to reports. Incubators provide services and funding to Net startups...
[June 9, 2000, 11:50]
Panther cuts its PowerPC teeth
News The Panther PowerPC is expected to cost under £2,000 + VAT for a mini-tower or desktop case with 200MHz 603e PowerPC processor, 512Kb L2 cache, 32Mb RAM, 2Gb hard drive, eight-speed CD-ROM drive, Matrox Millenium graphics card, 15-inch Samsung...
[September 11, 1996, 9:20]
Diamond cuts deeper into 3D, modems
News Diamond introduced two modems, the internal SupraExpress 336i Sp (£115 + VAT) and the external SupraExpress 336e Sp (£135 + VAT). Both 33,600bps devices come with a speakerphone and Rockwell's analogue simultaneous voice and data (ASVD) technology...
[September 18, 1996, 15:56]
PB-NEC cuts quarter off Versa prices
News The Versa 6000H notebook falls by 20 per cent, from £3,495 + VAT to £2,795 + VAT. The 100MHz Pentium-based unit comes with 16Mb RAM, 1Gb hard drive, six-speed CD-ROM drive and 11.3-inch TFT screen. The Versa 6030H falls by 25 per cent, from £4,395...
[September 24, 1996, 9:29]
Worm cuts off antivirus programs
News A new worm variant that can terminate antivirus applications was discovered last Friday, prompting Internet security vendor F-Secure to issue a level two warning. The variant, called Zafi.B, is spread through email attachments in PIF.
[June 15, 2004, 10:05]
Update: Oftel's ruling to bring 'second wave' of price cuts
News The Oftel ruling Friday that forces BT (quote: BT) to sell a wholesale version of its unmetered access package, SurfTime will spawn a second wave of cheap access deals according to experts Tuesday. Oftel's decision, in effect opens up the 'last...
[May 30, 2000, 12:15]
Acer cuts BenQ's cord
News Acer is finally severing relationships with its one-time sister company, BenQ. According to reports, the split will end a period of rivalry — at times acrimonious — between two of the main movers behind Acer, the Taiwanese giant of the PC business.
[April 18, 2006, 16:50]
