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School Board Virtualizes Servers, Boosts IT Productivity, and Saves $30,000 in First Year
White Papers Based in Brick, New Jersey, the Brick Township Board of Education administers a school district for students from kindergarten through grade 12. To maximize computing services for 2,000 employees while minimizing costs, the IT department turned to...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
News Following the news on Friday that around 80,000 desktop machines may have crashed in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) following a routine upgrade, ZDNet UK spoke with the Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan MP about the dangers...
[November 26, 2004, 14:15]
Wigan loses unencrypted data on 43,000 children
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said Wigan Council breached data-protection law by allowing unencrypted data on school pupils to be downloaded to a laptop. The laptop was then stolen, holding personal data on most children and young...
[September 7, 2009, 9:23]
FranklinCovey Gains VoIP Capabilities, Avoids $470,000 in PBX Costs
White Papers With a global reputation built on its training and tools for productivity and time management, FranklinCovey continually seeks to improve its own operations. After integrating voice mail and e-mail through Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
Lost: Data from 270,000 bank accounts
News Japanese bank Mizuho has admitted losing the confidential data of 270,000 account holders. Mizuho Financial Group, which owns the retail bank, said it had lost customer account numbers and names at 167 branches over several years, according to the...
[March 30, 2005, 12:20]
Lenovo recalls 205,000 ThinkPad batteries
News Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported that their products had overheated. The manufacturer announced the voluntary recall on Monday.
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
Talkback "the point is that MS software shouldn't just fall over, reguardless of what 3rd party software is installed " Do not know if that is completely fair. I have software that once installed knocks my Linux servers on their butts.
[November 27, 2004, 23:14]
Inkjet design could print at 1,000 pages per minute
News Inkjet printers could put out 1,000 pages per minute, thanks to a full-page print technique proposed by researchers. The JeTrix technique could print books to order at bookshops at the rate of two a minute, or at airport kiosks eliminating the need...
[September 22, 2006, 16:05]
VMware launches $200,000 challenge for virtual appliances
News Virtualisation software supplier VMware announced the launch of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge — a contest with $200,000 (£115,000) worth of prizes at stake — on Monday. According to the company, the aim is to "foster continued innovation...
[February 27, 2006, 16:00]
HSBC may roll out iPhone to 200,000 staff
News Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones. We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group...
[August 14, 2008, 9:06]
UK Health Service Delivers Faster IT Support to 10,000 Users With New Business Helpdesk Support
White Papers Leicestershire Health Informatics (LHIS) in the UK wanted to re-think its IT support strategy. It needed to meet existing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for its 10,000 users faster, and more affordably.
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Motorola takes order for 500,000 GPRS Timeports
News Motorola is about to announce a 500,000 unit order of its GPRS-based Timeport 260 mobile phone, most likely to a European telco. Mike Zafirovski, Executive Vice-President of Personal Communications at Motorola made the announcement at a press...
[March 22, 2001, 13:31]
Dublin Bus Streamlines Maintenance and Cuts Costs by Spatially Enabling Data From 5,000 Bus Stops
White Papers Dublin Bus wanted to capture, store, query, and maintain accurate, up-to-date information on the company's 5,000 bus stops and make it accessible to managers and planners in multiple locations and automate the generation of work requests following...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
EMC Scalable Solutions Support 54,000 Mailboxes in Two Consolidated Data Centers
White Papers EMC delivers information infrastructure management and storage solutions worldwide. But with 31,000 employees, managing its own e-mail system was no easy task. With decentralized system management, it could take a day to recover e-mail databases...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
HP recalls 70,000 notebook batteries
News HP is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and Compaq notebooks, after two reports of flaming notebook batteries. The worldwide recall, announced on Thursday, affects nine models of HP...
[May 15, 2009, 13:07]
Marks & Spencer loses 26,000 staff details
News Retailer Marks & Spencer could face prosecution if it does not comply within two months to the overhaul of its data-security procedures, after losing 26,000 employees' pension details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the...
[January 25, 2008, 16:32]
E-government services could cost 800,000 jobs
News The e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, has said that 800,000 public sector workers -- or up to one in five civil servants -- could be made redundant over the next 10 years because of the effect of putting government services online.
[May 13, 2002, 16:35]
Conducting an IT Makeover With Symantec Saves Emerging Business Over $900,000 Dollars a Year
White Papers To meet the demands of rapid growth, American Portwell Technology, Inc.turned to Symantec to protect its infrastructure, information, and interactions. As a result, users can achieve real-time file recovery from any Web browser - without IT help.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Germans launch $5,000 CeBIT hacker challenge
News A German computer security firm is inviting hackers to break into its products live at this year's CeBIT computer fair. Wibu will place its reputation on the line by asking a group of "ethical" hackers to crack a file scambled with its encryption...
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
Firefox donations hit $250,000
News The Mozilla Foundation announced on Saturday that it had raised $250,000 during the 10 days of its fundraising campaign, securing donations from 10,000 individuals. The money will be used to promote the final version of Firefox 1.0 some time after...
[November 1, 2004, 10:09]
