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Surveillance 2: Knowing me, knowing you
News Four employees at KEZI-TV in America were fired for aiming the station's Sky-Cam (mounted atop a downtown bank building) into rooms at the nearby Hilton. It's not your imagination: you are being watched.
[February 24, 2000, 14:32]
New e-government minister appointed
Talkback So I give a few years it before one of two things happens: People get killed by a missile fired whilst still in port, or the part or all of the contents of the new database are released into the wilds of the net.
[December 19, 2004, 5:09]
Oracle reveals PeopleSoft board challengers
Talkback Also, if you put the complete set of Oracle historical performance ratios to the "Apprentice" test, Larry would have heard "Your Fired" some time ago. I have found very little sharp business analysis on Oracles' claim to be saving $1 B per year by...
[November 25, 2004, 11:00]
Are IT managers sidelined during M&A?
Blog In a recent piece of data fired at me yesterday I see that Bloor Research has found that 79 per cent of M&A activity ignores IT integration (that seems ridiculously high - but let’s go on for now) and despite the fact that 50 per cent of the CIOs...
[December 4, 2007, 23:28]
Naughton: Child porn 'unsolicited'
News In other developments during Monday's proceedings, Naughton briefly took the stand to answer prosecution questions about his high-tech work experience, and defence attorney Bruce Margolin revealed that the Walt Disney-affiliated Infoseek fired...
[November 30, 1999, 15:26]
HP takes the battle to Cisco with new servers and software
Blog That’s a shot fired across the bows of network vendor Cisco, which just two weeks ago unveiled a new unified computing initiative, at whose core is a scheme to manage and automate the movement of virtual machines and applications across servers...
[April 2, 2009, 16:03]
Anna Friel's email puzzler
News To clear up the confusion, ZDNet has today fired off a volley of emails, and we will let you know when Anna gets back to us. The cover story proclaims: "Anna's e-mail guarantee. The 21 year old actress, best known as the late Beth from Brookside...
[March 25, 1998, 12:15]
Gartner: Apple should quit hardware business
Talkback This guy who came up with this stupid idea should be fired. Hello, this guy is full of drugs,or something. Why would Apple even give a hoot about what Dell is doing. For one, and really for only, Dell and every other PC maker can't make a PC, or...
[October 19, 2006, 22:22]
challenging the status quo
Talkback In the good times companies, with little costs pressures, go with the flow and follow the "norm" and let's not forget.people "don't get fired for buying IBM". Of course I can understand the SAP marketing man saying SAP is a "winner".
[October 13, 2008, 12:40]
City-wide Wi-Fi networks set to soar
News Norfolk fired up its community network — called "Norfolk Open Link" — back in August of last year, with the aim of improving access to information and providing opportunities for more flexible and mobile working.
[July 26, 2007, 19:04]
IBM gives Firefox in-house boost
Talkback I would install it on my work computer myself accept I would probably stand to risk geting fired for installing my own piece of software. I recently switched to Firefox at home. I've found the web browser to be great!
[May 13, 2005, 12:50]
Stirling work for cooling your chips
Blog Comment But the real advance might be the new Baxi domestic chp system that uses a gas-fired Stirling engine to generate electricity in the home, and provide hot water and central heating as a by-product. The thing about the Stirling engine is that it is...
[February 29, 2008, 21:40]
Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
Talkback Now my son has been fired, registered as sex offender (only UK, in the EU, uses such register) and marked as a criminal for ever. My son is in jail because the son of a b.of the shop where the pc was to be repared put his nose everywhere.
[June 19, 2006, 8:23]
Bribery case claims IBM scalp
News Big Blue has since denied the existence of this fund and said it has fired the employees in question. IBM has replaced the head honcho for its South Korean operations, following a high-profile bribery scandal last month.
[February 6, 2004, 10:10]
Taking sweeties from strangers - update
Blog So I fired up some hairy-arsed Linux software, the sort that could de-partition India and Pakistan from one rather spiky command line. Now hold on just one cotton-picking. As well as the cornets, the nice ice babe with the Intel van was also doling...
[June 5, 2007, 19:47]
Browser-based 'Cloud' OS launched for netbooks
News Within the browser window resides a dock that provides quick access to a number of apps — Skype, YouTube and Google Docs, for example — that can be fired up without running Windows. Good OS, the company behind the Linux-based gOS found on the $199...
[December 2, 2008, 10:16]
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog Comment Its true Microsoft rescued Apple but lets not ignore the circumstances that led to that; Apple's board had lost its mind and fired Steve, since his return, Apple seem to be on the march forward, maybe that's the period in Apple's history that...
[March 26, 2008, 17:26]
Employers get tough on Internet misuse
News Unsurprisingly, public sector workers are less likely to be fired for misuse of communications technologies than their private sector counterparts. Sending inappropriate emails and using the Internet during working hours is likely to result in...
[June 27, 2003, 7:33]
US Report: Microsoft to stage Windows 98 rally, warns Wall Street
News Last night, Microsoft fired off a letter to Wall Street warning that a delay of Windows 98 could have "broad, negative consequences not just for Microsoft but for the entire PC industry. The rally is designed to garner public support and pre-empt...
[May 5, 1998, 10:07]
Corporations crack down on employee Net use
News After a series of incidents where employees have been disciplined or fired for accessing pornographic Web sites or email at work, this kind of software may suddenly be in demand. Large organisations are cracking down on their workers' access to...
[January 18, 2001, 9:10]
