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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,... [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... [15 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... [15 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... [21 Dec 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... [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... [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... [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... [03 Aug 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... [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... [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... [03 May 2007]
Intel demos next-gen memory chip
News The magazine also contained an article titled "The big gamble in home video recorders". Intel has demonstrated a memory chip based on a concept it has been tinkering with for nearly 30 years. Code-named Alverston, the... [18 Apr 2007]
Google launches apps suite for business
News Salesforce.com and Proctor & Gamble Business Services have already signed up for the Premier Edition. Google is hoping companies will pay $50 per user for a business version of its application suite. Google Apps Premier... [22 Feb 2007]
