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S3 Gets The Flu, Axes Jobs
News Asian Flu took down another victim this week in the shape of graphics company S3 - maker of the Savage 3D. The company reported a Net loss of $11.6m (£7.07m) for the quarter, or $0.23 per diluted share compared to net loss for the same quarter last...
[July 27, 1998, 15:14]
Grid Project Hunts For Bird Flu Cure
News Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a computing grid to find a potential cure for avian flu. The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed...
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
Motorola & HP Ruffled By Flu-like Virus
News The Motorola night-shift worker infected with a deadly flu-like virus has been discharged from hospital, days after news of her illness caused the worried company to tell over 500 of her co-workers to stay home.
[March 31, 2003, 12:07]
Beware The Bird Flu Spammers
News Medical experts have warned Internet users about spam which links to a Web site supposedly selling avian flu antiviral drugs. An increasing amount of junk mail has been detected which claims to sell Tamiflu, the antiviral medication believed to be...
[October 26, 2005, 17:00]
Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology Can Address Pandemics And Disasters
White Papers The global march of the bird flu has heightened the sense of urgency in the international community for strategies to effectively prevent and respond to health-related crises. This IBM white paper presents an information and communication...
[August 12, 2006, 0:00]
IBM Service Assesses Pandemic Risk
News IBM is introducing a service that seeks to answer a question that few would like to ask: Are we ready for a flu pandemic? In the past year, the bird flu has spread through bird populations in Asia and Europe, and scientists fear it could spread to...
[June 6, 2006, 9:50]
Webcast: Pandemic Readiness: A Six-Step Methodology For Business Continuity
White Papers But growing concerns about a possible avian flu or other pandemic now present unique challenges for business continuity planning in light of the uncertain global, emotional, and structural impact a pandemic could have on both the workplace and the...
[December 4, 2006, 23:00]
Lessening The Pain Of The Budgeting Season
White Papers There's the Christmas season, hunting season, and baseball season; on the downside there's tax season and the flu season. Like the flu season, it is often filled with pain. There are a number of "Seasons" in the year, some of which are eagerly...
[September 7, 2006, 0:00]
PC Survival Time 'down To 20 Minutes'
News Baumhardt drew an analogy with the human body catching the 'flu. Imagine if your body said 'Hmm, I have the flu, I’ve never had this before, so I‘ll die. The time that an unpatched PC can survive connected to the Internet has dropped to an average...
[August 17, 2004, 17:35]
The Week In Review: Fooling The Tech Industry
News Of growing concern is the outbreak of SARS, a flu-like illness that has affected more than a thousand people in China and has no treatment -- although it is not always fatal. Motorola & HP ruffled by flu-like virus
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
Wanted: UK Minister For Disasters
News A flu pandemic is the biggest threat at the moment. The UK Government should appoint a minister with responsibility for managing business and IT disasters across the private and public sector, according to the Business Continuity Institute.
[March 17, 2005, 15:00]
Peter Coffee: Forbodings About Y2K Weekend
News I expect to watch the world endure the first two weeks of the year 2000 the way I get through a bad case of the 'flu. International Y2K problems won't be The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI, pronounced "Tee-oh-twau-kee"), but on this...
[December 30, 1999, 6:05]
Tesco Puts Broadband In Trolley
Talkback E7even is bullshit, shit services which is down most or all the time, who ever says e7even is good, probably works for them, avoid like bird flu
[April 7, 2006, 12:51]
Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps To Avert Potential Epidemics
White Papers Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a dangerous public panic - is to identify a potential outbreak early, marshal medical resources rapidly, and contain...
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Getting Started: Disaster Recovery Planning - Without Destroying Your Budget
White Papers Events ranging from purely local disasters such as local flooding caused by a fire down the block, to a city-wide flu epidemic, or a region-wide blizzard, all have the potential to put companies out of business.
[August 9, 2006, 0:00]
What Is A Computer Virus? - An Introduction To Computer Viruses: Part 1
White Papers Just as human viruses range in severity from the 24-hour flu to the Ebola virus, computer viruses range from the mildly annoying to the downright destructive, and come in new and different forms. Computer viruses are software programs deliberately...
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sorry for the lack of a diary last week - flu, don'tcha know. Which means I couldn't relay the happy story of one night in Dublin, where I ended up at 4am having one last little drinkypoos for the road (the plane left at 6, and I really didn't want...
[April 4, 1998, 8:00]
Motorola Reopens China Office After Sars
News The building has been closed since 29 April when the worker was found to have the flu-like illness known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, according to the wire agency AFP. Motorola, which closed its main office in Beijing after an employee...
[May 7, 2003, 13:16]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News I got flu; ordinary viral influenza, and spent two days in bed, and three days recuperating (over the weekend, of course, not on the company's time) and when I re-emerged into the vague twilight of Autumn in London, there was this heap of envelopes.
[November 15, 1997, 7:00]
Sony Plans Patch After DRM Rootkit Row
Talkback Years or decades from now (I've got lots of CDs over 10 years old) your grandchild is going to pop one of these carriers of the "Sony Flu" into their new computer running a still-to-come version of Windows and what do you think is going to happen?
[November 5, 2005, 22:35]
