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BT Crawls Towards 'unmetered Access'
News This is the first deal BT has done without pay per minute tariffs and CUT regard this as the beginning. BT announced Tuesday it is to cut the cost of Internet access by introducing a new Net tariff, as predicted by ZDNet.
[November 9, 1999, 16:11]
Public Sector Workers 'should Get Subsidised Broadband'
News This would cut the amount they would pay to less than £15 per month for a 512Kbps connection, making it cheaper than narrowband. Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers would be given cut-price high-speed Internet connections at home as part...
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
Boosting Broadband Competition Is Vital, Says IoD
News IoD members believe if efforts by ISPs to cut the amount they currently pay to BT in order to lease the telco's telephone lines prove successful, it will lead to an increase in real competition in the market.
[October 8, 2004, 16:05]
IT Burnouts Work Less To Escape Stress
News Another 12 million opted to work fewer hours in exchange for a pay cut, up from 9.3 million in 1997. Downshifters tend to be highly successful people whose jobs have left them unsatisfied, and can afford to take a pay cut and focus on family life.
[April 23, 2003, 10:25]
The Day Ahead: Corel Employees Take Fall For CEO's Blunders
News Cowpland has led Corel, its good technology and dedicated workers into the gutter, and now he decides to take a pay cut. Corel would have received a standing ovation if it cut 321 employees, and booted CEO Michael Cowpland.
[June 12, 2000, 14:22]
The Dangers Of Downsizing
News In addition, employees who elected to take a pay cut in excess of 5 percent would receive twice the dollar amount in options of every dollar in excess of 5 percent. Instead, Acxiom imposed an across-the-board percent pay cut in which...
[September 20, 2001, 18:30]
Layoffs Erode Support For The 'HP Way'
News HP avoided layoffs during the recession of the late 1970s by ordering an across-the-board 10 percent pay cut and requiring employees to take every other Friday off. Specifically, Fiorina requested all of HP's 93,000 employees worldwide to pick from...
[July 27, 2001, 9:20]
IT Contractors Facing Pay Cuts
News There are concerns that as the tech sector slump eats into IT budgets, some managers may cut the amount of consultancy work they pay for. Shout99, a news Web site for contract workers, has reported that both Credit Suisse First Boston and Hewlett...
[July 25, 2001, 12:22]
HP Delays Raises And Cuts Temp Workers
News In an effort to cut costs and meet earnings estimates, Hewlett-Packard is asking managers to delay salary increases, cut back on using temporary workers, and encourage employees to take vacation time, sources close to the company said.
[December 22, 2000, 9:10]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News At the heart of the issue is that Sling Media, Orb Networks and similar companies cut out cable and satellite operators who pay great sums for transmission rights in their areas, according to Kliavkoff.
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
Amazon.com Implicated In CD-import Row
Talkback If the local distribution channel is taking such a large cut or is so poorly optimised that it is cheaper to source it abroad and pay the import duty, then they need to rethink their methods and become competitive, not look to stop the flow of...
[January 7, 2004, 18:09]
Skype Lets Users Offer Services Over Net
News The user will pay the service provider using Skype credits, and providers will have to receive their cut through PayPal, Skype's sister company under the auspices of eBay. It also includes a beta of Skype Prime, "a new marketplace which brings...
[March 15, 2007, 10:50]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
Talkback Thirteen full time staff and a number of volunteers who get paid £5.00 per day and the computers all donated for free and the endusers pay the transport fees. Since when is Linux not tested, the following provide fully tested Desktops: SUSE...
[June 27, 2006, 16:34]
Sun 'distorts' Definition Of Free Software
Talkback If you don't want to pay, you can cut for yourself. It's like buying hay cut from common land. If you have better things to do, then pay the man. Asking the users about the details of the license agreement and differences between Free Software...
[July 4, 2005, 12:31]
Jane Wakefield: Come On BT, Free The Net
News CUT doesn't believe that unmetered access -- where users pay a monthly subscription fee for as much Net time as they want -- should replace the pay per minute system. Wednesday CUT found a new friend in e-Minister Patricia Hewitt.
[October 25, 1999, 14:03]
Palm Begins Hefty Job Cuts
News Handheld maker Palm began making large-scale job cuts Wednesday and, according to internal documents, has been detailing other ways it will cut costs. The company plans to cut jobs further when it completes its acquisition of Extended Systems in...
[April 19, 2001, 9:17]
Salesforce.com Cashes In On Application Market
News But with the AppStore premium referral service, Salesforce will receive a 25 percent cut of the action for providing a customised marketing service. Despite vendors facing the potential of paying upwards of 45 percent of all their AppStore-related...
[December 12, 2006, 8:15]
IBM Scraps 600 Jobs From Chip Unit
News Amid continued sluggishness in its chipmaking business, IBM has cut more than 600 jobs, with most of the losses affecting a plant in Vermont. Last year, the company cut 1,000 jobs in Vermont as part of a broader reorganisation of its...
[August 19, 2003, 13:35]
The Year Ahead: Skills Trends For 2003
News WorldCom, Cable & Wireless, Marconi, Siemens, Lucent, Nortel and Orange all cut staff heavily in 2002. IT contractors in 2002 experienced drops in hourly rates of pay in four out of 49 job roles monitored by the Computer Weekly/SSP Quarterly Survey.
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
New Unmetered Price War On The Way - Analysts
News But while AOL congratulates itself on its timing and brand awareness, smaller ISPs worry they will be forced to cut prices at the cost of quality service. People want an always-on service that they can trust, even if they have to pay more than for...
[September 20, 2000, 14:51]
