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EDS threatened with legal action over £51m tax fiasco
News The Inland Revenue is threatening to drag EDS through the courts unless compensation is agreed for overpayments that resulted from problems with the new tax credit IT system. A software error on the EDS-designed tax credits IT system resulted in...
[June 22, 2005, 9:35]
Survey: Security measures pay off
News Companies working to harden their security have found that the efforts have resulted in fewer incidents of unauthorised computer use and a decline in damages from security incidents, a computer security group said in a report released on Thursday.
[June 11, 2004, 12:35]
Petrol for sale at Internet auction site
News Britain's worsening petrol crisis resulted in petrol being auctioned to the highest bidder on an Internet auction site Wednesday. Blockades at refineries in the UK -- in protest of international oil prices -- have caused a nation-wide petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 14:27]
Thousands under scrutiny as piracy ring shut down
News One of the largest Internet piracy rings in the world has been shut down in a police operation that resulted in the arrest of 181 people. The sting also resulted in the recovery of around 118m (about £84m) euros worth of pirated software -- one of...
[June 16, 2003, 14:45]
Microsoft Windows Vista Migration: Addressing the Issues of Operating System Upgrades and Migration
White Papers Windows Vista (originally codenamed Longhorn) has been one of the greatest software challenges in history and has resulted in a completely re-written operating environment that has over 50 million lines of code.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Mainframe Application Support
White Papers A merger with a large retail bank further resulted in a comprehensive IT Systems consolidation effort. This resulted in the bank having to embark on a number of IT initiatives while ensuring that the current business operations were not impacted.
[March 4, 2009, 0:25]
Incentive Pay in the Warehouse
White Papers Incentive programs for the warehouse, implemented in a variety of ways, have resulted in striking gains in productivity! These programs have also resulted in other benefits such as increased employee satisfaction which leads to improved retention.
[January 8, 2008, 0:01]
EarthLink flaw exposes domains
News The first of two flaws resulted from a common error. The vulnerability resulted from a recently discovered flaw in an open-source e-commerce package combined with a misconfigured hosting server operated by EarthLink subsidiary MindSpring.
[October 18, 2000, 7:46]
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Speeds Medical Research With Advanced Data Warehouse
White Papers The Human Genome Project, an unprecedented program that resulted in a map of the human genome and opened up limitless opportunities for exploring the genetic mechanisms behind diseases, also resulted in considerable challenges for researchers.
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback Furthermore, everyone of them has had instances where MS updates have resulted in downtime because a required security patch "broke" a critical application that they could not find a UNIX-based version of.
[February 26, 2005, 19:33]
Swansea ends 18-month IT nightmare
News That resulted in the threat of further strike action after Unison accused Swansea Council of reneging on an agreement to give staff the option of permanent transfer or secondment to Capgemini. Swansea IT staff lost their fight after the council...
[January 5, 2006, 8:35]
CSA IT 'a turkey from day one'
News IT problems have resulted in a backlog of 239,000 cases, with an additional 36,000 new cases stuck in the system. From the outset, its complex administration procedures and inadequate IT system resulted in poor performance and enormous backlogs of...
[July 5, 2007, 15:15]
Customer Effective - Partner Grows 1000 Percent Over Three Years with Focus on CRM Solutions
White Papers For customer Dixon Hughes - a top 20 full-service accounting firm in the United States according to INSIDE Public Accounting - working with Customer Effective to deploy Microsoft Dynamics CRM has resulted in greater visibility into client...
[September 21, 2009, 0:00]
Nokia's Ovi Store launch marred by server issues
News The Ovi team subsequently blogged that Nokia's servers had experienced "extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues for users accessing store.ovi.com and store.ovi.mobi".
[May 26, 2009, 16:42]
Nikon Corporation - New CRM Software Gives Sales and Management More Flexibility
White Papers Nikon now is using Microsoft Dynamics® CRM for quick and simplified collection of data, which has resulted in better quality in the reporting system. Also, more efficient business processes have resulted in additional timesavings.
[September 21, 2009, 17:08]
13-year-old put on register for Internet paedophilia
News A dawn raid in March dubbed Operation Appal resulted in the immediate arrest of the teenager, after 326 indecent images were found on the hard drive of his PC. A three-month investigation resulted in a series of raids across the country, at 7am...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Vignettes from Interop
Blog While he admitted that the recession has resulted in a smaller show, there's a lot of energy and innovation, he said. What was also notable was that Cisco decided to display only a cursory presence, which resulted in other big players -- you know...
[May 26, 2009, 14:00]
Forget Bagle, the real threat is home users
News This move by virus writers has resulted in corporate IT systems becoming increasingly dependent on home users keeping their computers patched and virus-free. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, said that the increasing use of...
[January 23, 2004, 15:20]
DfT shared-services plan under fire
News For example, the board did not have enough control of the design of support systems, which resulted in less standardisation of business practices and increased costs and delays. The DfT's technology specification was poor, it failed to take...
[May 23, 2008, 11:24]
Global Hell says it's going legit
News On 30 August, the hammer dropped: A joint FBI and Army Criminal Investigation Command investigation resulted in the arrest of Chad Davis, a 19-year-old Wisconsin man also known as "Mindphasr", a co-founder of gH, for breaking into a US Army computer.
[September 7, 1999, 14:10]
