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When Is A Perk A Necessity?
News Q. I am a senior IT manager, and I hope you can help me solve a dilemma. Recently, an employee left my organisation to take a different job, and I am not sure what I could have done to persuade him to stay.
[October 16, 2002, 12:21]
Chip Gear Orders Perk Up
News Orders for chip equipment kept ahead of shipments in November with bookings worth $930m (£528m), giving gear makers hope of an upturn next year. The book-to-bill ratio, which represents a comparison between the average value of new equipment orders...
[December 22, 2003, 14:35]
Will New Chip Perk Up Embedded Red Hat?
News Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, announced a deal Wednesday to support SuperH's forthcoming SH-5 chip. The deal is an important victory for Red Hat's "embedded" computing division, which creates software for computing devices...
[February 14, 2002, 9:08]
Mobile Phone Car Ban Is Debated
News A mobile phone ban could also have big consequences for companies that issue cell phones to their employees -- a common perk at technology and financial companies that demand round-the-clock access to workers.
[July 3, 2001, 13:39]
FirmTools Panorama Composer
Downloads Another handy perk is automatic lens type detection feature. FirmTools Panorama Composer is a brainlessly simple panorama builder that will help you make your first pan in no time. The main advantage of this product is its straightforward 100...
[September 14, 2007, 21:46]
Techs Bullish About China Market
News It's one of the few words that can perk up a high-technology executive these days: China. Companies have attempted to tap the country's enormous potential for years, but it has become a far more attractive target recently as the rest of the world...
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
Investors Worried About Free AOL Use
News Free Internet access may be a bygone perk of the dot-com bubble, but it appears to be alive and well at the world's largest Internet service provider (ISP), America Online. AOL offers a battery of free promotion and retention programmes, but...
[March 14, 2002, 16:02]
Microsoft Rewarded For Work-life Balance Effort
News Success for the supermarket proves that money isn't the best perk of all. Asda has won the title of best company to work for in the UK in a survey carried out by The Sunday Times. A typical starting salary for shopfloor staff at Asda is just £9k...
[March 26, 2002, 17:06]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment I think most frequent business travellers would consider that living out of a suitcase, queuing in airports and putting up with identi-kit hotels is hardly a perk of the job. Rationally - video conferencing or telepresence has always made sense to...
[May 31, 2007, 9:14]
Yahoo Chief Floats Ad-free Future
News Speaking with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang at an event sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, Semel said its subscription-only businesses could offer versions without advertising as an additional perk. Yahoo, whose fortunes depend on selling online...
[February 26, 2004, 8:00]
Linux PDA Featuring Bluetooth On Sale By Summer
News The product will come with the Linpus Linux 0.7, a multilingual version of the Linux operating system, and feature Bluetooth connectivity, a perk that was also demonstrated at CeBIT. The Mitac Cat PDA, a handheld computer powered by the Linux...
[March 22, 2001, 15:03]
'Free' OS X Riles Apple
News However, what was designed to be a nice perk for early adopters of the new OS turned out to be a way for holdouts to get a free version of Mac OS X, which normally costs $129. Apple Computer has been turned into an unwitting Santa Claus after some...
[December 4, 2001, 9:37]
Gadget Brief: FoneBook Gets A Smart Link
News The ability to create as many lists as you want is a definite perk as it means that you need only carry relevant numbers. FoneBook Plus is, or rather was, compatible with most phones. This week will see the introduction of a Smart Link, which will...
[August 17, 1998, 14:06]
New Sun CEO Rakes In Rich Reward
News Also on his perk list is "private jet access for business and reasonable personal use" and coverage of personal security expenses. Jonathan Schwartz, named Sun Microsystems' new chief executive on Monday, has a base salary of $1m (£560,000), the...
[April 28, 2006, 9:25]
PalmSource: PDAs Are Poorly Designed
News He complained that there should be a sub-$200 (£124) phone-PDA hybrid to perk up demand in the market. Handheld PCs today include "everything but the kitchen sink", pack in costly hardware and lack design focus, said David Nagel, chief executive of...
[May 2, 2003, 9:21]
Work Phones For Personal Use?
Blog Many companies offer that as a perk, while other take a dim view.what sort are your employers? Research done by Aurora Kendrick James has shown that workers in the UK spend £400m a year on personal calls from their company mobiles.
[June 8, 2007, 15:46]
Thursday
Blog The crowd listen dutifully through the handy three-minute guide to working out your security needs, the promotion of Intellect's published guidelines -- http://www.cssa.co.uk/home/reports/websecfinal.pdf -- and tales of legal responsibility, but...
[June 28, 2002, 17:44]
HP Unveils First DVD+RW Drive
News PC makers and consumer-electronics makers are hoping these types of drives will perk up holiday sales, in part, on a theory that consumers will rediscover the home movie. The war over DVD recording standards will escalate today when Hewlett-Packard...
[August 20, 2001, 8:50]
Yahoo Cans Streaming Video
News Yahoo is also expected to expand free video programming throughout its site and offer it as a perk for its broadband access partnerships with SBC Communications and British Telecom. Yahoo is expected to stop selling its streaming-video service as a...
[October 31, 2003, 10:50]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Now, in reality, some work trips are a perk - the world of IT journalism is underpinned by the concept that you might not get paid that brilliantly but you get to travel to all sorts of interesting place and meet lots of interesting people.
[May 30, 2007, 17:24]
