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Succession Planning: Five Costly Errors to Avoid
White Papers This white paper shows you how to avoid five of the most common --- and costly -- errors when embarking on a succession planning initiative. How a lack of alignment between the succession plan and company goals can derail the initiative
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
.Net and XP hit by patent suit
News A digital rights management company has expanded its patent infringement suit against Microsoft, targeting its forthcoming Windows XP operating system and .Net initiative. Windows XP, the first major public step in the .Net initiative, is set to be...
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Virus bounty 'will change nothing'
News The initiative promises a reward of up to $250,000 (£148,579) for information leading to the conviction of the person or group responsible for launching the MSBlast worm and another $250,000 for similar information about the Sobig.F virus.
[November 6, 2003, 8:10]
.Net patent could stifle standards effort
News Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. Microsoft declined to elaborate on its plans for the patent, but intellectual property attorneys said that if it's...
[February 11, 2003, 7:43]
Singapore to offer commercial grid computing
News Businesses in Asia will soon be able to draw on commercial, pay-per-use grid-computing services, as part of a government-driven initiative to promote grid adoption for purposes beyond research. Leslie Ong, general manager of sales for HP's...
[October 30, 2008, 13:02]
Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme
News On the company's Shared Source Initiative Web site, Microsoft on Tuesday posted details of three new licences. Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative is a programme to allow third parties, such as other software companies and large customers, to see...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft touts consumer benefits of broadband media
News Microsoft and more than 35 of its closest industry pals chose this week's Digital Hollywood conference in LA to showcase a new consumer broadband initiative. Microsoft claims the Windows Media & Trade Broadband Jumpstart initiative will deliver...
[October 1, 1999, 12:15]
City Enhances Service Delivery With Automated Request Management
White Papers In 2005, Bellevue launched its "Service First" initiative to streamline access to public services and information. To support the initiative, the city sought a software solution that could automate, coordinate, and track service requests among its...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
PowerGen provides staff with cheap home PCs
News The Clicks@Home initiative will enable PowerGen's 5,000-plus workforce to receive a Hewlett Packard PC and Internet access supplied by the company's own ISP for an £8-a-month subscription fee. The government's UK Online initiative has set the...
[June 26, 2001, 16:11]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Comment Whatever you think of John Howard, his government did launch the ground-breaking Global Initiative on Forests and Climate in March 2007 to help address the problem of global deforestation. Some people might argue it was an electoral ploy during a...
[May 6, 2008, 14:16]
Oracle foresees a rosy future for Apple
News Apple's rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence on Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID as part of an initiative to cut storage costs. In addition to Apple's storage box, Oracle also identified systems from...
[December 7, 2004, 7:20]
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News The enhancements came out of the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII), a working group set up in March between Microsoft and companies such as Novell, QuickOffice and Dataviz. We're pleased to see the Document Interoperability Initiative...
[December 3, 2008, 11:11]
Siemens AG: Information and Communication Networks/Enterprise Networks
White Papers Just prior to undertaking this initiative, the Global PSO (Project Support Office) implemented Primavera project portfolio management software in order to handle the inter-dependencies that linked the complex, subsidiary projects that had to work...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
MS-backed group lobbies against government open source
News Policymakers should not make rigid intellectual property licensing choices a precondition for eligibility for procurement, nor should they discriminate between developers that choose to license their intellectual property on commercial terms, and...
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
Linux Foundation tackles power concerns
News The Green Linux initiative is being organised by the Linux Foundation, which was formed earlier this year by a merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group. Last week the Foundation held a "collaboration summit" at Google...
[June 19, 2007, 11:29]
Google, US authors settle book-digitisation lawsuit
News The US Authors Guild and a group of publishers announced on Tuesday that they have reached a settlement with Google in a lawsuit over its Google Book Search initiative. The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 authors, sued Google in...
[October 28, 2008, 14:47]
The challenges facing software development
News Fri 29 March: Linux and the open-source movement have come a long way since the foundation of the Open Source Initiative in the late 1990s, Raymond says. Fri 29 March: In part two of his ZDNet UK interview, the co-founder of the Open Source...
[April 4, 2002, 15:37]
Old code in Windows is security threat
News Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
[June 10, 2002, 9:34]
New-look PCs coming this autumn
News The new-look PCs have been developed under an initiative called Easy PC, which includes Intel , Microsoft and PC makers Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The initiative, launched in September 1998, has already resulted in several changes on the PC...
[August 5, 1999, 8:19]
Microsoft's security strategy pilloried
News Microsoft has bought two antivirus companies and an antispyware company -- the latter acquisition has already produced an antispyware application for Windows -- since Bill Gates launched the Trustworthy Computing Initiative, which changed coding...
[February 18, 2005, 7:45]
