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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Europe honours father of the one-chip CPU
News Former Intel engineer Federico Faggin has received an award from the European Commission (EC) and the European Patent Office (EPO) to honour his role in the development of the microprocessor. According to the European Inventor of the Year Web site...
[May 4, 2006, 12:10]
Ex-Intel worker pleads guilty to trying to help Taliban
News A former Intel engineer accused of aiding terrorist organisations pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to supply services to the Taliban. As a lead engineer on Intel's Multimedia Extensions, or MMX, software team, Hawash worked on the MMX...
[August 7, 2003, 12:35]
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]
Is IT burnout a thing of the past?
News According to one senior software engineer it's a "geek thing" -- sleeping in the office, physical exhaustion, and mental stress. The software engineer, who now lives in the UK, knows firsthand the impact burnout can have on your life.
[February 28, 2002, 14:04]
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]
Shouldn't your servers be sweating?
Blog Comment I am supposed to be an electronic engineer, although it's a long time since I designed anything useful. However, during the time I was employed as a hardware engineer, it was building UPSs where the operating temperature of some of the components...
[August 12, 2009, 12:11]
Answers to your burning career questions
News So my question is, do you think there will be jobs for .NET software engineers, particularly at the junior software engineer standing? I'm software engineer in Oregon, where the job market is extremely soft.
[June 18, 2002, 15:31]
Robotic cars to race from LA to Vegas
News By day, Seth Cabe is a manufacturing engineer for a mannequin maker. I'm an engineer. By night, he's working on what could become the battlefield vehicle of the future. Cabe, leader of Team Loghiq, is one of a number of engineers, researchers and...
[July 28, 2003, 13:11]
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]
