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News Troubled online directories business Scoot.com is contemplating the sale of Loot, just 14 months after it paid £190m for the online classified advertising venture. The company which saw its shares plummet by two thirds in July has been looking at a... [10 Aug 2001]
Outsourcing and offshoring - consultants look to fill their boots
Comment The economy remains in a slump, and that's exactly why Atul Vashistha is smiling. As CEO of NeoIT, a consulting firm that helps companies outsource some operations overseas, Vashistha has little trouble these days pitching the value of his company... [27 May 2003]
Apple boots out developer for being too young
News Apple has kicked a developer out of its open source Darwin project because he is too young. Baby-faced Finlay Dobbie is 15 and Apple insists that the developers working on its Mac OSX code be at least 18 years old. [27 Mar 2002]
UK e-tailers slammed for shoddy online customer service
News Some of Britain's largest retailers, including Argos, Boots and JJB Sports, have been slammed for providing poor online customer service. Under the heading 'Horror Stories', the report's authors described how an order placed on the Boots Web site... [03 May 2000]
Dell PowerEdge 350 Console Redirection and Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) Support
White Paper When a PXE enabled client boots, it obtains an IP address from a DHCP server. The client uses TFTP to download the Network Bootstrap Program (NBP) from the Boot Server and then initiates execution of the image (boots from the image). [01 Mar 2004]
The McCue Interview: Reuters CIO David Lister
Comment David Lister is just two months into his new role as CIO of Reuters after completing the switch from his old position at Boots and he is, not surprisingly, in an enthusiastic and upbeat mood about the sizeable task ahead of him. [10 Jan 2005]
Handbag's at dawn of success
News Handbag is a joint venture between chemist Boots and Hollinger Group, the owner of the Telelgraph newspaper. Handbag today announced two new non-executive appointments - Zoë Morgan, marketing director of Boots, and Emma Soames, editor of the... [27 Nov 2001]
Chip and PIN goes undercover
News The magnifying screen, recently trialled at Boots the Chemist in Cambridge, also has the added bonus of helping partially sighted customers see the PIN pads better, according to Boots essential operation manager Clive Barber. [29 Jan 2007]
Morning Edition: Tumbling telecoms shares and vanishing e-tailers
News The Telegraph reports that high-street chemist Boots and Granada Media are working on a healthcare TV channel to be carried on Granada's Ondigital. Those 'cures' are, of course, available at your local Boots chemist. [13 Oct 2000]
Leader: Should CIOs fear the rise of private equity?
Leader When this publication learnt that Boots head of IT Rob Fraser was to depart after a decade at that high street stalwart, it was made clear the move wasn't related to the purchase of Alliance Boots by private equity interests, notably KKR and the... [03 Aug 2007]
How the e-tailers stole Christmas
Comment Last year it was calling itself boots.co.uk, had a limited product range and wasn't particularly well-integrated with the high-street stores. For wellbeing.com, the online arm of Boots the chemist, this is Christmas number one. [14 Dec 2001]
Windows XP next up in EC's anti-trust investigations
News If Microsoft is not shaking in its boots then it is misleading itself. Microsoft's Windows XP will be the next target of the European Commission's current probe into the company's alleged anti-competitive practices, according to the lawyer at the... [31 Aug 2001]
Using PXE Technology on Compaq ProLiant Servers
White Paper When a PXE-enabled client boots, it obtains an IP address from a DHCP server. The client obtains the name of the NBP from the appropriate Boot Server. Then the client uses the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) to download the NBP from the Boot... [03 Jul 2008]
Configuring Windows HotStart
White Paper Windows HotStart on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system provides built-in support for a fast system startup experience that boots or resumes directly into media or other applications. This white paper describes how to enable and configure... [07 Nov 2006]
Trinux - A Digital Tool Belt
White Paper Trinux is a minimized Linux distribution, which boots from either a single floppy disk or CDROM, and resides completely within system RAM. Its purpose is succinctly stated on its home web page - Trinux gives you the power of Linux security tools... [24 Feb 2004]
