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Counting the cost of Slammer
News Last May, outplacement service Challenger Gray and Christmas estimated that the first day of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" would cost firms $319m in lost productivity from workers calling in sick and taking days off.
[February 3, 2003, 7:54]
European software patents 'a done deal'
News They think it is an industry like selling cars, where you will build big buildings and fill them with workers. The European Commission and European Parliament are determined to introduce software patents in Europe despite widespread opposition from...
[June 26, 2003, 15:28]
Singaporeans tout all-in-one operating system
News The company has about 40 workers, including 25 software developers. Two Singaporean inventors who say they've created an operating system that can run programs that are written for Windows, Linux and Palm will formally launch the product this month.
[September 5, 2003, 8:40]
Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 review
Reviews It’s also a handy solution for office workers who need to convert moderate volumes of documents into digital information quickly and easily. The ScanSnap S300 — which measures 28.4cm wide by 9.5cm deep by 7.7cm high and weighs 1.4kg — is designed...
[January 23, 2008, 9:19]
HP exec hits back at vote critics
News An HP representative would not say if disciplinary action has been taken against any employees but said HP's internal security workers are being joined by outside consultants to help determine the source of the leak.
[April 12, 2002, 11:44]
EU plays catch-up with US at dot com summit
News According to Andrew Grant, chief executive of TMP's worldwide resource division, less than 0.5 percent of European workers move from country to country. European Commissioners have expressed concern that although the EU now has as many Internet...
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Microsoft effort targets next billion PC users
News Microsoft will also set up an employability portal aimed at helping more of India's technology workers find jobs. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new...
[April 19, 2007, 9:33]
BP employees get DIY IT
News It is for the portion of the workforce who are information workers, travellers, people who take their services from the Web and are not subject to lots of regulatory restrictions. Oil giant BP is pioneering a "digital consumer" initiative that will...
[October 12, 2006, 9:25]
Gartner to CIOs: 'You're in business, not IT'
News Communication is full of noise, and while workers clear the inboxes to satisfy personal objectives, by doing so they might be deleting opportunities for the business, said Prentice. None of you are in IT; all of you are in business," said Andy Kyte...
[November 22, 2007, 9:18]
Internet World: Broadband on a roll
News Office workers in particular could present a lucrative market for entertainment and information in the form of high-quality video and audio, according to Rob Enderle, analyst with Giga Information Group.
[April 13, 1999, 7:48]
AlphaSmart Dana review
Reviews Battery life is far superior to any other portable computer we have used: delivering around 25 hours of working life between charges, it should be possible for most mobile workers to connect to mains power less than once a week.
[January 8, 2003, 9:35]
High street gets ready to push Vista
News The company said it has trained 60,000 employees on Vista so workers in every department can help tout the OS's specialised capabilities. In an indication of how UK retailers may handle next week's launch of Vista, several American retail chains...
[January 23, 2007, 8:17]
RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM
News IBM said the midmarket packages target many of the same functions as the company's RFID services for enterprise customers, but the new packages include provisions for working with smaller budgets and fewer IT workers.
[September 14, 2004, 18:00]
Microsoft scores small win in Google battle
News Google and Lee claim the Microsoft lawsuit is a "charade" meant to frighten other Microsoft workers from jumping to Google, according to court documents. A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing...
[July 29, 2005, 7:50]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews You won't find the tools you need to collaborate with co-workers via online discussions or save files to a shared Web work space. With StarOffice 6.0, Sun steps into uncharted territory -- charging money.
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
HP announces Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab
News While IT departments aim to make workers more productive by utilising more powerful servers and PCs, that goal conflicts with the requirements of facilities departments, which usually pay the energy bills.
[May 2, 2008, 12:57]
Who can explain desktop virtualisation?
Blog Those arguments for thin clients are the same today but the easy deployments have already been made, for employees such as call centre workers and other single-taskers. When it comes to desktop virtualisation, there's too much hype and not enough...
[December 3, 2009, 13:03]
The slow road to Windows XP
News Instead, when new XP-based machines are purchased, businesses are passing on the Windows 2000 machines to workers lower in the pecking order, O'Halloran said. The study, released on Tuesday by AssetMetrix, underscores a recurring problem for...
[June 16, 2005, 11:20]
Be aware of wireless threats
Talkback Your machine may be secure and patched up, but what about all your co-workers systems - or laptops from outside that get plugged in? Risks associated with wireless access are often misleadingly portrayed.
[October 24, 2005, 14:56]
Allchin makes the business case for Sidebar
News Although Sidebar is mainly seen as a consumer feature, Microsoft has talked up the tool as a way for workers to have fingertip access to key information such as graphical representations of real-time business data.
[February 6, 2006, 14:00]
