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ID cards: £1,000 fine for skipping biometric scans
News In the latest government ID-card plans, people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans. Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an...
[February 27, 2008, 7:59]
AOL passes 250,000 UK users
News The service, a joint venture by America Online and Germany's Bertelsmann, hit 150,000 members in March and 200,000 in June. AOL has over 700,000 members in Europe and over nine million worldwide. We have achieved that through sticking to our three...
[October 24, 1997, 15:36]
Five years ago: AOL launches version 3.0, passes 100,000 users
News AOL has launched version 3.0 of its online service, and passed 100,000 UK subscribers. The company now has over 300,000 European subscribers, of which 200,000 are in Germany and 25,000 are in France. I think after 12 months this is pretty good in...
[December 12, 2001, 6:30]
12,000 expected for Networld+Interop UK
News The show was far from packed but stand attendants were relatively happy with the quality and numbers of visitors. It's not looking like an anoraks' show; most of the visitors seem to have responsibility for spending," said Trevor Dodsworth, senior...
[October 29, 1997, 10:35]
20,000 expected for ECTS
News ECTS started in 1989 with a mere 2,000 visitors and has steadily grown with every show. Organiser Miller Freeman expects around 20,000 visitors at this year's show which is being billed as a 'must attend' event in the industry's calendar.
[September 3, 1997, 15:34]
£750,000 paid up for unlicensed software use
News Microsoft has reached settlements of £500,000 and £250,000 with two UK customers over unlicensed software. The software giant said the settlements - reached earlier this year - show the potential downside for companies of not having the proper...
[July 4, 2005, 16:20]
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]
Dell to lay off 4,000 more staff
News Thousands more jobs to go at computer manufacturer Dell Computer will eliminate 3,000 to 4,000 jobs during the next two quarters as the company retrenches amid tough times. The cuts, which the company said will primarily affect employees in Texas...
[May 8, 2001, 7:31]
Marriott loses data on 200,000 customers
News The hotel chain Marriott admitted on Tuesday that backup computer tapes containing data on approximately 206,000 customers were missing from a company office in Florida. The data, which relates to customers of its timeshare division, Marriott...
[December 30, 2005, 11:00]
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]
Schools Migrate From NetWare to Windows, Gaining Reliability, $340,000 in TCO Savings
White Papers Hudson County Schools of Technology was supporting 3,500 students and 370 teachers with a mixed environment including Novell NetWare. Server availability was as low as 60 percent, and the IT staff couldn't handle more duties, although user needs...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
News Burst: SDMI tempts hackers to $10,000 challenge
News The record industry and its allies in the race to create impenetrable music delivery systems have issued a challenge: crack our code and we'll pay you $10,000 (£6,100). The gauntlet was thrown down by developers at the Secure Digital Music...
[September 11, 2000, 9:44]
Dell recall affects 57,000 in Europe
News Dell Computer will recall more than 50,000 notebook batteries from Europe as part of a global recall of about 284,000 due to a flaw that has caused at least one notebook to catch fire, the company confirmed today.
[May 3, 2001, 16:04]
Korean firm offers $100,000 in hacking competition
News A Korean company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on Tuesday 16 April at 11am Korean...
[April 15, 2002, 10:35]
IT Firm Automates Administrative Tasks, Creates $125,000 in New Revenue Opportunities
White Papers Since 1995, MagicBus.com has delivered innovative Internet and e-commerce solutions for small businesses. To better manage sales leads, project workflows, and administrative tasks, MagicBus turned to the enhanced functionality of Microsoft Office...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
UK will pay £1,000 more for Adobe CS3
News UK businesses will have to pay hundreds of pounds more than their US counterparts for Adobe's creative software, after the software supplier revealed the pricing for Creative Suite 3, launched on Tuesday.
[March 30, 2007, 14:54]
£35,000 hacking challenge cracked
News A team of computer hackers has captured £35,000 for hacking into a computer system just twenty-four hours after the competition began. The hack is likely to be a major embarrassment for the company behind the high-profile hacking comptetion...
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
Consulting Firm Saves $40,000 a Year in VPN Costs, Speeds File Access by 40 Percent
White Papers Convergent Computing (CCO) helps midsize and large organizations design and support multiplatform network solutions. Most CCO employees work remotely and need a secure, reliable way to connect to the corporate network and download files quickly.
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Virtualization to Save Company More Than $350,000 Annually in Space and Power Costs
White Papers Lionbridge Technologies, a leading provider of localization services, needed to centralize its IT infrastructure. However, the company lacked room in its main data center for more servers, and the time it would take to deploy them also hindered...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Sony Ericsson to lay off 2,000 more workers
News Sony Ericsson plans to lay off a further 2,000 employees, in the wake of deeper quarterly financial losses. The redundancies, announced on Friday, are in addition to the 2,000 job cuts the handset maker outlined in July.
[April 17, 2009, 14:19]
