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Make games not nukes: DTI outsources to Russia
News According to the DTI, changes in Russian defence policy is expected to lead to around 15,000 job losses in 10 of the country's so-called closed nuclear cities over the next five years, with more likely to go in the next decade.
[September 2, 2004, 18:00]
Former ICL chief to lead broadband advisory group
News Todd begins his new job immediately. Verwaayen is poised to announce details of BT's new broadband strategy, which will include significant price cuts. The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the industry body that advises the government on its...
[February 11, 2002, 15:45]
More Rubbish.
Talkback As a consequence, now I am job hunting again, my benefit entitlement, having stuffed over £3K into the system with Tax and NI over the last 3 months of work is £60 per week for 6 months full stop, absolutely nothing else and if I don't bend over...
[April 23, 2008, 13:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Unfortunately they never made full use of my skills and I got a better job elsewhere. Now that rings a bell - which is more than many BT staff I knew in the '80s and 90s could do after they'd been felled in wave after wave of staffing cuts (known...
[October 24, 2005, 13:05]
Unite to hold Fujitsu strike ballot
News Peter Skyte, Unite national officer, said in a statement on Wednesday: "Fujitsu remains a highly profitable company and our members are insisting that the company must treat them fairly and increase pay, provide decent pensions, and consult...
[October 8, 2009, 14:22]
US Report: SyQuest orders mass layoff
News In terms of restructuring the product line and building a market, they've done a good job," said James Porter, president of Disk/Trend in the US. SyQuest said it also plans to scale back administrative, sales marketing and research expenses and...
[August 10, 1998, 9:40]
One million jobs at risk warns Action 2000
News Flower denied that it was the government's job to force action from the laggards. These businesses are more likely to bleed to death by a thousand cuts," she said. According to Action 2000's latest State of the Nation research, 40 percent of firms...
[August 3, 1999, 13:56]
AT&T restructure cuts jobs
News For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and get information on training, go to ZDNet Jobs. The cuts will come primarily from AT&T's Business division, a company representative said.
[January 6, 2003, 15:48]
Panasonic Toughbook CF-R1 review
Reviews Aesthetically, we'd have preferred alloy throughout, even at the cost of a few extra grams on the weight, but the plastic does the job perfectly well. Not in the battle tank sense that its ancestor was, but by practical standards it still cuts the...
[March 4, 2003, 9:19]
Firewalls: Your first line of defence
News Depending on the customer, this job can include maintaining on-site routing and firewall equipment, which can vary depending on the specific needs of the customer. However, firewalls can't prevent a virus or worm from taking over your computer—that...
[February 21, 2006, 15:00]
Oracle Special: Customers pay the price
News I'm like 911 to the rescue," said one Oracle software consultant who worked on the project, adding that eight months was the minimum time needed for the job. Because it is one of the more popular corporate applications on the market today, Oracle...
[July 2, 2001, 13:42]
Vodafone boss survives shareholder attack
News I don't think he's doing a great job but I don't think anyone could. UK telecoms union Connect was also in attendance outside the AGM, protesting against a motion put in front of shareholders that cuts the targets execs must meet to earn bonuses...
[July 26, 2006, 10:05]
IBM bundles up Workplace
News Also, at the end of the month, IBM will release 17 bundles of its Workplace software that address specific job functions, or "roles", within about 12 industries. He said Workplace cuts down on costs both because corporations can update desktop...
[November 10, 2004, 8:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Who thinks Ofcom is doing a good job". So I sit there, for a speech talking about how well Broadband Britain has performed since Ofcom came into being a few years ago (no mention of BT's price cuts, or rural activists, or media pressure).
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
OpenOffice.org goes Swahili
News Once the final version is available, the Kilinux team may have a difficult job explaining the advantages of open-source software as software piracy is rife, said Pascual. Internet access is slow and we have three power cuts every week.
[December 6, 2004, 15:05]
Gateway gets fifth CEO in six years
News I come to this job with the belief that service and quality customer support [are] the key differentiators with our customers," he said. As a result, Gateway was often stung by price cuts and the need to grow.
[September 8, 2006, 13:35]
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 MX 420 review
Reviews You could have one person watching a movie and another working on the PC -- providing your system is up to the job. Turning on 2x anti-aliasing cuts the 3DMark 2001 result by nearly 50 per cent. VisionTek is one of the first manufacturers to get a...
[March 19, 2002, 23:00]
Yahoo! to clip divisions, lay off 400
News And we intend to announce more access deals and intend a better job in advertising and marketing. Three quarters of the staff cuts will come from international, broadcast services and management, with the remainder from sales, marketing and support...
[November 16, 2001, 9:15]
IBM plans huge internal merger
News Merging the two groups will mean that IBM can do a better job applying technology and expertise from outside work to its own Power processors, one source said. The cuts came largely from systems development staff.
[January 29, 2004, 7:30]
Does Moore's Law no longer apply?
News Instead of focusing on clock speed, the company says it is deploying and developing a number of new processor technologies that do the job better. Integrated memory cuts processing time because the chip can fetch data from close at hand, rather...
[February 9, 2000, 9:37]
