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BT launches virtual home-engineer service
News In a bid to become "the AA of IT", telecoms giant BT is offering a "virtual engineer"; to sort out home users' tech problems remotely for £25 a go, and will even send a real specialist around to get new broadband installations set up.
[June 9, 2006, 14:25]
Software engineer sentenced to prison
News A former security software engineer convicted of providing technology to a piracy group known as DrinkOrDie was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in prison. US attorneys said Erickson, who was an engineer at Symantec and a member of...
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
Ex-Novell engineer files sexual harassment claim
News Jeff Merkey, now the chief executive of the Timpanogas Research Group, brought the charges against Novell and Denice Gibson, the senior vice president of its Internet Products Group. Novell deniues the charges.
[July 16, 1997, 9:49]
SCO engineer: No smoking gun found in Linux
News The email, which was sent to SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride by a senior vice-president at the company, forwards on an email from a SCO engineer. In the 13 August, 2002, email, engineer Michael Davidson said "At the end, we had found...
[July 15, 2005, 9:10]
Engineer's Toolkit
Downloads This is a very useful program for Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Geometry, and Trigonometry teachers and students. It has numerous tools to help you with grading, tests, homeworks, etc. A lot of useful formulas are implemented in this version.
[April 6, 2007, 14:42]
Industrial Ethernet : A Control Engineer's Guide
White Papers This white paper provides an overview of Ethernet technology and its benefits in the data networking environment. It discusses the benefits of using a switched Ethernet architecture in industrial networking environments, including: Determinism...
[June 26, 2009, 1:28]
Is a ten-year-old girl the youngest ever Microsoft engineer?
News A young girl in Pakistan has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) at the age of nine. Some reports claim this makes her the youngest MCP in the world, but this may not be the case. There is a young man in India who, last year...
[July 18, 2005, 17:25]
Martin Bell calls for tech to re-engineer government
News Bell was speaking at the launch of Citizen Direct, a new report, written in narrative form describing how a computerised government might affect the citizen in the year 2005. The report calls for government to re-plan its services from the customer...
[June 27, 1997, 11:49]
Eastman Chemical Employees Engineer Thousands of Process Improvements Using Easy-to-Use Software
White Papers Headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, Eastman Chemical Company is a Fortune 500 company that manufactures and markets chemicals, fibers, and plastics worldwide. Eastman's dynamic and collaborative atmosphere was tested when the company found it...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
BT woos female telecoms engineers
Talkback Maybe it will make a change to the fat, sweaty, curry stained "engineer" who called at my premises today and completly made a dogs dinner out of my failing DSL Max connection. After dealing with the clueless idiots at the Mumbai call centre, they...
[July 13, 2006, 0:09]
Ballmer 'vowed to kill Google'
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on...
[September 5, 2005, 9:05]
Bulldog users bite back over poor service
Talkback Received call on mobile from Bulldog at 08:17 1 Apr 06 from their engineer. But it should not have happened in the first place and it took about four or five phone calls (and a few days) to get to the engineer!
[April 3, 2006, 9:12]
Google sued by start-up over code
News A Silicon Valley start-up has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming an engineer employed at the search giant stole software code to create the popular online social networking service Orkut.com. The lawsuit alleges that Google engineer Orkut...
[July 1, 2004, 9:10]
Software unsafe at any speed
Talkback I'm a registered professional civil engineer. Compare that to an MCSE bootcamp where you can become a "software engineer" in 6 weeks! As a professional engineer, I'm assigned a stamp with a unique number.
[May 26, 2005, 19:25]
Intel worker charged with terrorism offences
News The Justice Department has charged Intel engineer Mike Hawash, who has been held in solitary confinement since 20 March, with conspiracy to levy war against America and of supporting terrorist organisations.
[April 29, 2003, 15:13]
AVC Broadband review
Reviews An engineer has to come to your home and fit the satellite dish (or if you already have a dish, the extra hardware required), and a different engineer will set up your computer. However the setup process is quite complex and if for any reason you...
[June 16, 2004, 9:35]
Dell dips in support ratings
Talkback I am a Dell warrenty service engineer. EG Customer not in = Engineer fails call! My company is the prefered Dell company. Dell set VERY high SLAs for us and other companies of around 98% next day fix.
[February 23, 2004, 8:11]
Fresh Mac hacking competition launched
News A university systems engineer in Wisconsin is inviting hackers to break into his Mac. Dave Schroeder, a senior systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin, launched his contest on Monday. An earlier challenge was too easy, he said.
[March 8, 2006, 8:50]
Ex-Intel worker jailed in terrorism case
News A former Intel engineer who pleaded guilty to aiding terrorist organisations was sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison. As a lead engineer on Intel's Multimedia Extensions, or MMX, software team, Hawash worked on the MMX technology emulator...
[February 10, 2004, 7:50]
