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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. Launching a consultation on the government's proposals on Tuesday, Cabinet Office...
[October 7, 2003, 14:00]
BT details success of PC loan scheme
News HCI schemes allow employers to loan computing equipment to their employees for personal use at home as a tax-free benefit. To date, almost 18,000 of the telco's 80,000 workforce have taken up the option of paying £20 — instead of the retail price...
[March 15, 2006, 11:25]
Treasury looks to replace HCI
News In his budget speech last month, Gordon Brown axed the scheme, which gave tax breaks for businesses that provided employees with PCs. The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees access to cheap computers...
[April 3, 2006, 17:30]
IBM dissolving South Korean joint venture
News The chief executive of the joint venture, Lee Duk Ju, recently told employees that the two companies will probably divide LG/IBM PC, with each parent company taking the elements it originally brought to the partnership, according to sources.
[September 1, 2004, 14:40]
Cutting the CO2 caused by PC use
News The rules on when to shut off PCs and for which employees are usually determined after a survey of the work habits of employees. He also cited a survey of IT managers who said employees tend to change the energy-saving settings on the PCs: the IT...
[September 18, 2006, 10:10]
Intel's Timna is targeted for even lower cost PCs
News The Timna chip may also find its way into "free PCs" and machines distributed to employees by companies. Ford, for example, recently announced that it will give PCs to its employees for nominal costs, and Intel is looking into doing the same for...
[February 16, 2000, 15:18]
Microsoft upgrade knocks out 80,000 government PCs
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees.
[November 26, 2004, 11:10]
Microsoft bans employees from music swapping
News Microsoft warned its employees on Thursday night that no swapping of music or other files is to occur via its PCs or networks. In an email sent to the company's more than 50,000 employees, three senior Microsoft executives warned that peer-to-peer...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
PowerGen provides staff with cheap home PCs
News The Income and Corporation Tax Act 1998, which was amended in the Finance Act 1999, says that if a company loans PCs or software to its employees, the first £500 of the value of the asset is exempt from income tax, providing that the offer is made...
[June 26, 2001, 16:11]
HP wants to change desktops into blades
News In these systems, corporate employees have only a keyboard, a monitor and a docking station on their desks. Moving employees from one location to another or replacing a PC requires just switching around a few cables.
[May 6, 2003, 9:10]
Companies urged to switch PCs off
News Companies should encourage employees to switch off PCs at night or continue wasting thousands of pounds a year, according to research by Fujitsu Siemens surveyed 1000 employees, and found that some 370 never turned off their computers before...
[October 24, 2005, 14:30]
Switched-off PCs may save council £40,000
News A recent report found employees who leave their PCs on overnight are costing their companies around £70 per year. An automated email service that informs employees when their machines have had to be switched off by the software has also been...
[July 27, 2007, 9:39]
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees
News Currently, the majority of Microsoft's employees enjoy full admin rights on their desktop PCs, which is an unusual practice in enterprises, as it makes possible for users to install unauthorised software and accidentally introduce unwanted pests...
[May 30, 2006, 10:15]
IBM scales back direct sales
News The decision, announced in an email to employees on Tuesday, is seen by some employees as indicative of the tough competition IBM faces from Dell in the direct sales market. IBM is to cut back on direct sales when it stops taking telephone orders...
[January 9, 2002, 15:36]
Wal-Mart starts selling Sun's Linux PCs
News Sun sells corporate users the Java Desktop System -- based on SuSE Linux -- at a price of $50 per employee per year, regardless of how many employees actually use the software. And for the quarter ended in June, Sun so far has commitments to sell...
[March 31, 2004, 9:45]
IBM answers Nokia's calls for help
News The deal is worth about 200m euros (£139m) over five years, with Nokia following a "pay per use" model for help desk, call centre and software support for its 57,000 employees around the globe. About 430 of Nokia's employees in a number of...
[January 19, 2004, 12:50]
Employees value home PCs over gym membership
News Over a third of employees who already have home PCs and Internet access provided by their employer would prefer to keep this fringe benefit over membership to a health club, according to research. Peter Adams, general manager of PC supplier...
[May 11, 2001, 15:36]
Sun pushes environmental benefits of thin clients
News The number one benefit our employees are asking for is a thin client at home which beams down their complete work environment to their home. We actually get more work hours out of the employees at home and they are happier," he said.
[May 4, 2005, 15:45]
Linux sees big potential in small businesses
News The report, released on Monday by The Yankee Group, says Linux has minimal presence among business with 500 employees or fewer, with not even 1 percent of such companies currently using Linux on desktop PCs.
[September 21, 2004, 11:05]
Consumer-tech use threatens corporate security
News Consumer-based communications tools such as Hotmail, instant messaging and VoIP are used by most employees, often from work and also as a way to transfer work materials to and from their PCs at home. The use of consumer-based technology such as web...
[June 18, 2007, 8:52]
