project and time in news
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News As well as promoting Linux around the world, the Linux Foundation also sponsors the work of Linux kernel project lead Linus Torvalds. A Red Hat spokesperson had not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing. [20 Aug 2008]
Linux Foundation releases developer guide
News After that time, project head Linus Torvalds issues a release candidate kernel, which is then stabilised. The bigger and more important the project, the more likely it is to have a number of levels," Taylor told silicon.com sister site ZDnet.co.uk... [18 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News Carphone Warehouse has started the roll out of a workforce management system in a £1.5m project across it's European store estate. Carphone Warehouse senior project manager Mercedes Mendes told silicon.com the system is the result of a two-year... [13 Aug 2008]
Apple iPhone gets Google Translate service
News The Google Translate mobile service came about as the result of the company's '20 percent' time policy, which sets aside a day of each employee's week for work on any new project or idea they may wish to pursue. [11 Aug 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News Hybrid IT/business courses have also been championed by tech industry skills body e-skills UK, which most recently supported the creation of an Information Technology Management for Business degree which combines tech learning with business skills... [06 Aug 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News He was backed up by Kevin Fitzpatrick CIO of northern Europe for caterer and facilities company Sodexo, who said: "We constantly work to reduce our operating costs and flexibility in our investment/project spend. [04 Aug 2008]
Citizens use YouTube to keep gov't in check
News It points to the success of the Tidy Oldham project, where residents took photos of problems and "grot spots" on their mobiles to be posted on a dedicated website. Sous-veillance might transform political engagement due to its ease of use, by... [31 Jul 2008]
Kwik Fit Insurance drives up website performance
News No value was put on the project but McRae believes the improvements she has made to customer experience on the site since the software was installed in March has already provided a return on that investment. [28 Jul 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News In formulating HPB for a network 'A', we treat attack sources that have reportedly made attacks on networks correlated with 'A' differently from attack sources that attacked the same number but uncorrelated networks," researchers said in a... [28 Jul 2008]
Windows 7 on track, says Microsoft
News Veghte showed the Mojave Project, in which users predisposed against Vista reacted favourably when shown Vista when it was presented under the guise of being a new version of Windows, code-named Mojave. [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google. Marketing vice president Brad Brooks told partners earlier this month that Microsoft was "drawing... [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News It outsourced the project to online specialist Parity to provide a portal that would allow charities to file returns securely online and distribute information to them, based on data in each return. The site has saved a substantial administration... [24 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Discussing how much time he spends doing this extra work, Sachdev explained that while a project may start out requiring a few hours of work per evening, it tends to ramp up towards the end - and can mean burning a lot of midnight oil. [22 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's technology. There is no payment of any kind we expect from partners but we do say in the terms of service up front that over time we will require them... [10 Jul 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using microchipped bins has been dumped. That cost staff hundreds of hours of time in contact with the software firm, the weighing system supplier and the bin supplier, through... [17 Jun 2008]
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