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Dell Fudged Numbers To Meet Quarterly Targets
News The company felt so pressured to meet Wall Street expectations that its finance department bent accounting rules to make up for shortfalls in certain quarters and under-reported earnings results in others, each time ensuring that Dell did in fact...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
UK Councils Use Open Source To Hit E-targets
News A growing number of local authorities across the UK are using an open source content management system to help them achieve their e-government targets. He said "almost all" local authorities will need a content management system to put their...
[March 15, 2005, 15:20]
Erewash Borough Council Chooses An Oracle Platform To Achieve E-Government Targets
White Papers In line with national government guidelines, Erewash Borough Council is required to meet certain e-government targets by 2005. The Mi Services Group offers services to cover every aspect of an IT project lifecycle, including business process...
[October 11, 2003, 0:00]
Broadband Unbundler Targets Public Sector
News Under targets announced by the prime minister, Tony Blair, in November 2002, all primary schools must have a 2Mbps symmetrical connection and all secondary schools an 8Mbps one by 2006. Updata, which cut its teeth in the Danish telecoms market...
[July 30, 2004, 12:40]
MoD Targets £174m Savings From £4bn IT Deal
News The MoD has previously refused to detail the cost savings targets but the figures were published in the MoD's efficiency review last week -- with savings of £43m in the first year, £66m in the second year and £65m in the third year.
[November 1, 2004, 12:14]
First Virus Targets Windows CE
News Several analysts have speculated that handhelds and even VoIP phones could become major targets for virus writers, but so far, massive outages have not occurred. A virus that infects Windows CE has been developed -- the first such bug discovered...
[July 19, 2004, 8:35]
Purchasing Software Intensive Systems Using Quality Targets
White Papers One Airlie best practice is to track defects against quality targets. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget and delivered with poor reliability. This motivates the US Department of Defense (DoD) to qualify suppliers based on...
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
VBS Worm Targets Gnutella Users
News The worm targets Gnutella by changing the gnutella.ini file to accept Visual Basic Script files and places the 23 Trojan files in the Gnutella download directory so that others on the network may find them.
[June 5, 2000, 8:49]
Anti-spyware Software Targets Gator
News InterMute's SpySubtract targets Gator with a feature called "Gator Slayer", which lets PC users choose to automatically delete the software anytime it's downloaded. Just days after a federal judge ruled that software makers are within their rights...
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
Banks Still Top Targets For Phishing Scams
News Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of businesses and...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Pentium 4 May Miss Sales Targets
News Pentium 4 will not hit Intel's sales targets for 2001 because of its reliance on Rambus memory, according to a leading industry analyst. Jonathan Joseph, Salomon Smith Barney's managing director for semiconductor research, made the comments on...
[June 19, 2001, 12:25]
HMRC Meets Tough Targets For Recycling, Thanks To HP Planet Partners
White Papers Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) needed to increase its recycling if it was to meet ambitious corporate responsibility targets. Within the first 18 months of joining the HP Planet Partners programme, it had recycled 13.1 tonnes of HP toner...
[December 19, 2006, 23:00]
Lastminute.com Targets Students
News Students could be a particularly valuable market for lastminute, which targets people with a bit of dosh to spend who prefer to dispose of it in a spontaneous fashion. lastminute.com is looking to get students hooked on its brand by infiltrating...
[November 24, 1999, 11:56]
System Availability Targets
News Quantifying availability targets Table A shows availability targets versus hours of outage allowed for a continuous availability level requirement. I have seen many availability targets missed simply because a system supplier could not give due...
[February 6, 2003, 12:54]
Standardizing On Veritas Data Center Management Software From Symantec To Hit Service Levels And Cost Targets
White Papers It also optimizes these data centers to meet cost and service-level targets, using data center management tools from Symantec Corporation. It's challenging to manage one data center - EDS manages over 100.
[January 17, 2008, 23:00]
DoCoMo To Beat Targets And Come To The UK
News NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile services operator, said on Thursday it expects to surpass its earnings targets for the year ending on 31 March. DoCoMo president and chief executive Keiji Tachikawa told a news conference he expected group current...
[March 22, 2001, 9:44]
Oracle Mulls Other Targets
News In April 2003, the Oracle board was presented with a list of potential acquisition targets. Those two companies were among the several named as potential acquisition targets for Oracle, during the third week of the Justice Department's antitrust...
[June 22, 2004, 8:20]
The Day Ahead: Will Amazon Hit Its Sales Targets?
News Commentary: Amid warnings from eToys, United Parcel Service and FedEx, can Amazon hit its fourth quarter sales targets? Judging from the Nielsen//NetRatings stats, Amazon will need a big boost from consumer electronics to make its sales targets...
[December 18, 2000, 13:37]
Microsoft Targets Undergraduate Developers
News Michael Bronsdon, Microsoft's lead product manager for academic developer marketing, said that Visual Studio.Net Academic is the company's first offering that specifically targets students and teachers.
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
Latest Smart Phone Virus Targets Symbian
News Symbian is looking into reports of a new mobile phone virus that targets smartphones running its operating system. The worm, dubbed Mabir.A, appears to be a variant of the Cabir virus -- recognised by security experts as the first smartphone virus.
[April 6, 2005, 18:05]
