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Helping Casinos Roster Employees Like Clockwork With the Progress-Based MizziSoft Workforce Management System
White Paper There are over 30,000 gaming employees in Asia, and rostering them is a daunting challenge for the large casinos around Asia Pacific. Casino managers require a way to model staff requirements, and optimize their employees to the tables... [09 Jan 2009]
Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Photo This is a clockwork shaver from 1940s operated by pulling the lever on the right which drives the blade as it winds back into the device. The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and... [14 Aug 2008]
Trevor Baylis
AS Profile If Baylis hadn't raised the possibility of helping Africa by using technology such as his hand-cranked radio, it could be argued that number 6 in the Agenda Setter list, Nicholas Negroponte, might not have come up with the idea of the... [12 Oct 2007]
What's the oldest piece of kit in your IT department?
News Phil Young, head of IT and operations at Amtrak Express Parcels, said his department still has an old bank of modems used for dial-up from remote locations as a back up if newer methods fail - and joked that the... [16 Nov 2006]
Lib Dems accused of patent hypocrisy
News David Chan, a developer at Clockwork Software Systems, said he was unhappy the UK's Liberal Democrat MEP, Diana Wallis, voted against the amendments. European politicians representing parties including the UK's Liberal... [24 Jun 2005]
Next 'critical' Windows patch - out on Tuesday
News As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft plans to release 10 security alerts for flaws in Windows and other programs on Tuesday. Seven security bulletins and fixes apply to the Windows operating system, and at least one of those... [10 Jun 2005]
Baker turns to open-source payroll software
News Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll application, in Birmingham on Thursday. Clockwork business manager Jim Welch said it was initially supplying the software... [26 Nov 2004]
AT&T wins Swiss airline IP contract
News Swiss, the Swissair successor airline, is to pay AT&T $2.4m over three years to connect locations around the world using virtual private network (VPN) technology. The AT&T Global Network (AGN) will link 36 sites across Europe and North... [26 Aug 2004]
Inventor Trevor Baylis set to float
News Inventor Trevor Baylis, who sprung to fame in the nineties following his invention of the clockwork radio, is set to float his commercial venture Baylis Brands. Former TV stuntman Baylis made his prototype... [16 Aug 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment Public sector IT is often characterised by the awarding of mega-deal contracts to a handful of large services companies - and, almost like clockwork, the failure of some of these contracts when it comes to delivery. [02 Mar 2004]
5 years ago... Vendors gather for Comdex trade show
News Well, apart from those companies no longer around to give a keynote or exhibit, there will be the regular-as-clockwork Sunday evening Bill Gates keynote. 13.11.98 Comdex Fall98 starts next week, with technology vendors... [13 Nov 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Scales of grey
Comment This is a well-ordered regime where everything runs like clockwork. What did he learn? During my decades in industry I have observed people struggle with organisational structure and management methods. [03 Oct 2002]
Inside Intel: A vendor dossier
Comment Look at the regular-as-clockwork billion dollar plus quarterly profits, the continued dominance in PC processors or the familiar faces at the top and it looks like a familiar story. Inside Intel. We know, you've heard... [30 Sep 2002]
The Winter Olympics 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
News You've got a budget of $300m and a deadline which is unbreakable. Your IT department has 3,000 people in it. You have to manage 145 Unix boxes, 4,500 workstations and laptops, 1,210 printers, and 1,850 fax machines and copiers. [19 Feb 2002]
What if... teachers were replaced by computers?
Comment Yet thinking back, even in that kind of environment, many classes ran like clockwork with well behaved kids participating actively in even quite boring lessons such as trigonometry. We have a shortage of teachers in the... [29 Jan 2002]
