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HP aims to encourage upgrades with new hardware
News To further encourage customers to swap out their machines, the company unfurled a PC upgrade programme in which it will dispose of old desktop and laptop computers and install new ones for a set fee. You're going to have to upgrade someday.
[May 22, 2003, 8:02]
Ofcom seeks to encourage telco fibre investment
News Ofcom has revealed a plan to establish what must be done to encourage telcos to invest in next-generation fibre networks. The regulator is also aiming to raise awareness around super-fast broadband and what consumers can expect from fibre networks.
[September 24, 2008, 11:28]
Publishing Firm Builds an Interactive Web Site to Encourage Teens to Read
White Papers After researching teens' reading habits, Penguin teamed up with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 developers Content and Code to produce a Web site using social networking, videos, and blogging to encourage teens to talk about reading, a...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Skype to encourage software plug-ins
News Skype is planning to launch a software certification programme this autumn to provide software developers with "Skype certified" logos for software they develop to extend the company's core VoIP offering.
[September 2, 2005, 12:00]
Does the Structure of Auditing Encourage Aggressive Accounting?
White Papers If management wants to pump up earnings for a particular period, it's easy to slow research and development expenses, defer repair and maintenance or even time purchases so bills are incurred a bit later.
[August 28, 2009, 1:24]
UK economic woes encourage working from home
News Increasing numbers of recession-hit Brits are choosing to work from home in order to save cash, a new report has found. More than half (55 percent) of employees are working from home more frequently since the financial crisis began, according to...
[May 14, 2009, 10:19]
Encourage innovation
Talkback While I agree that encouraging another device that will be left on 24/7 goes completely against what the UK government is trying to do with its attempts at stopping people putting even TVs on standby it might not be such a bad thing.
[January 11, 2007, 10:40]
Microsoft to encourage multi-region Xbox games
News Forthcoming games for Microsoft's Xbox console will have regional codes, but the software giant will urge software publishers to make them work in all territories. In an interview with ZDNet's GameSpot Wednesday, Xbox general manager J Allard...
[January 12, 2001, 14:48]
Open source would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said. Changing the licensing to an open-source model would...
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Employee home-PC scheme gets revamp
News The UK government is planning a new push to encourage more companies to loan PCs to their employees for use at home, due to poor take-up of the original scheme. HCI, which was launched in the 1999 Finance Act, was introduced to encourage companies...
[October 7, 2003, 14:00]
IBM, Fujitsu team on telecommunications
News IBM and Fujitsu have struck a deal to link networking products to encourage developers to build corporate communications applications that can take advantage of public telephone networks. By adhering to the standard, IBM and Fujitsu hope to...
[November 28, 2002, 9:40]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News European clouds should be set up within the next five years to encourage small business take-up of on-demand IT services, the European commissioner for telecoms and media has said. She repeated her call for pan-European intellectual property rights...
[July 9, 2009, 16:09]
Vendors tackle high telepresence costs
News Faced with tough internal sales targets but stuttering revenues, the five major telepresence vendors are trying to encourage more companies to adopt the high-end videoconferencing technology. Its announcement could encourage other vendors to follow...
[April 1, 2008, 15:20]
BT details success of PC loan scheme
News BT has loaned 30,000 PCs to staff for home use as part of its policy to encourage flexible working and raise digital literacy levels in the two years it has been taking part in the government's Home Computing Initiative (HCI).
[March 15, 2006, 11:25]
Net advertising: Bigger ads, bigger impact?
News The guidelines, set by the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Rich Media Task Force on Monday, are meant to help encourage and streamline the creation of "rich media" units -- advertisements that typically include animation, audio or video.
[August 7, 2001, 10:04]
Debian group encourages women developers
News The Debian Women group, which was set up in March this year to encourage the participation of women in Debian's future development, is already making progress in encouraging women to apply to be Debian developers, it says.
[December 14, 2004, 12:55]
EC funds 'gender equality in science' study
News The European Commission has granted funding to academic organisations for the study of how to encourage women to enter scientific professions. Despite the Commission's funding grants, the British Computer Society (BCS) has said the outlook for EU...
[January 7, 2008, 14:40]
Citrix targets VMware users in switchover push
News Citrix on Wednesday announced a package of incentives to encourage companies to switch from VMware's virtualisation products to those supported by Citrix Essentials, the company's virtualisation management software — including its own XenServer or...
[October 15, 2009, 16:07]
UK retailers facing e-commerce divide
News Britain's small retail firms are falling behind their larger rivals at taking up and using e-commerce, despite government attempts to encourage UK businesses to get online. Timms added that the government's "UK online for business" initiative, an...
[July 29, 2002, 10:36]
Microsoft download pitches rights management for business
News Microsoft released a plug-in for Internet Explorer that is designed to protect sensitive documents from unauthorised editing or copying -- an early step in its effort to encourage corporations to use its software to share sensitive information.
[May 23, 2003, 8:11]
