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RSS gambleCyber-extortion on the rise - but targets the 'fringe'
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations. [24 Jan 2008]
Call for tougher online retail age checks
News The Ten Minute Rule Bill proposed by Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, seeks to make it a statutory requirement for retailers to verify the ages of consumers who attempt to purchase age-restricted goods such as alcohol, cigarettes... [21 Jan 2008]
Procter & Gamble Creates a Collaborative Community
White Paper Procter & Gamble (P&G) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer packaged goods. Procter & Gamble wanted to support innovation among geographically dispersed development teams and speed time-to-market and reduce costs. [14 Jan 2008]
Transforming Lab Notes Into a Corporate-Wide Asset
White Paper Procter & Gamble (P&G) has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of consumer product brands in the world, including Pampers, Ariel, Pantene and Pringles. The company wanted to develop a method for sharing information among laboratories... [14 Jan 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment A bold gamble given that the success of the iTunes Store and iPod sales was built on the closed platform. But Seb Janacek goes further. He predicts that in 10 years people will look back at 2007 as a seminal year in the company's history. [21 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Procter & Gamble and other large companies want to use it as an efficient yet inexpensive way to deliver their content to a lot of other satellite offices. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. [24 Oct 2007]
Law Firm Cuts Costs, Saves Time With e-Mail - Filtering and Message-Archiving Service
White Paper Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, a 500-person law firm based in California, serves the legal needs of clients in a range of industries. For the past several years, the firm's attorneys had been using mobile devices to improve communication... [28 Sep 2007]
Upgrade to mySAP ERP Solution Ensures Operational Stability and Flexibility for Successful Management of Change
White Paper In 2005 Gillette merged with Procter & Gamble, forming one of the world's largest consumer goods companies. With 30,000 employees and 32 manufacturing facilities in 15 countries, Gillette is truly a global leader in the grooming, personal care... [28 Sep 2007]
From Outsourcing to Selective Sourcing: Considerations for Sharing the IT Load Through Flexible Managed Services for Storage
White Paper A significant percentage of the Fortune 500, including GM, Proctor & Gamble, Blue Cross, and Xerox outsource their entire IT departments to a third party. Most cite the same reasons: outsourcing IT allows them to focus with less distraction on... [11 Sep 2007]
Education council pledges £60m to IT
News LSC director for adults and lifelong learning, Jon Gamble, said: "Our increased investment into technology will help us create a more dynamic and forward-looking further education system. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has pledged a £60m... [03 Aug 2007]
Symbol Case Study: Procter & Gamble (P&G) Warehouse Management System
White Paper With P&G China's rapid inventory turnaround time, its existing paper-based manual system proved to be cumbersome as volume increased in the company's distribution centers. Workers charged with data collection filled numerous orders per day at a... [12 Jul 2007]
NetApp Helps UGS Reduce Cost and Accelerate Time to Market
White Paper UGS customers are some of the biggest brands in innovation, including BMW, Canon, Dyson, GM, Honda Racing, and Procter & Gamble, to name a few. UGS must meet the growing and changing demands of these companies by adding new features and... [30 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Media merger mania
Comment I don't profess to be an expert in auto-makers but in 1998 the German-US tie-up I began writing about above, while a gamble, probably looked more of a sure bet than what we're seeing now in media and information services. [15 May 2007]
IT Due Diligence: Partnering With Private Equity Before and After the Sale
White Paper SDBC) through a unique carve-out of brands by Procter & Gamble. In 2004, J.W. Childs (JWC) had the opportunity to acquire the Sunny Delight Beverage Co. The deal was further complicated by the fact that the global marketer of juice-based drinks... [03 May 2007]
A Juicy IT Story: How IT Outsourcing Helped Sunny Delight Beverages Deploy an All-New Global IT Infrastructure in Under One Year
White Paper Despite the company just being carved out from Procter & Gamble with an experienced management team and a well-known brand name, it was missing a crucial operational element - an entire information technology infrastructure. [03 May 2007]
