Corporate Stupidity -- Win Phone 8 Edition

Recently the corporation my brother works at went from an assortment of real telephone PBX switches nationwide (Nortel, Avaya, etc.) to Cisco. It's supposed to save time and money, but programming a Nortel PBX phone takes about three minutes -- a ...

Message posted on the January 22nd, 2013 - 9:58 PM ET

ISACA Offers Preparedness Tips for Computers and Information Systems Ahead of Hurricane Irene

In preparation for Hurricane Irene’s impact along the East Coast, global IT association ISACA offers tips to the public and businesses to protect their computers, information and systems during the hurricane. ...

Press published on the August 26th, 2011 - 1:35 PM ET

SimCorp Poll Pinpoints Lack of Automation as Biggest Cause of Corporate Actions Failure

Lack of integrated front-to-back-office systems account for major source of errors when processing voluntary elections.

Press published on the March 7th, 2011 - 8:00 AM ET

Intel Promotes Five Corporate Officers, Elects Three New Corporate Vice Presidents

Intel Corporation today announced that its board of directors promoted five corporate officers and elected three new corporate vice presidents. William M. Holt, 60, was elevated from senior vice president to ...

Press published on the January 28th, 2013 - 10:00 AM ET

Nordson Corporation Announces Promotion of Gregory A. Thaxton to Corporate Senior Vice President

Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) today announced the promotion of Gregory A. Thaxton as a Corporate Senior Vice President of the company. Thaxton, previously elected as a Nordson Corporate Vice President in 2007, ...

Press published on the December 2nd, 2011 - 3:00 PM ET

E*TRADE Corporate Services Top-Rated in Satisfaction and Loyalty among Stock Plan Administrators for Third Consecutive Year

Group Five Annual Benchmark Study Examines Relationships between Plan Sponsors and Stock Plan Administrators; Plan Sponsors Rate E*TRADE Corporate Services #1 among Commercial Plan Administration Systems.

Press published on the September 13th, 2011 - 6:05 AM ET

Hitachi Data Systems Furthers Strategy to Become the World’s Most Innovative Information Solutions Company

HDS Announces New Roles for Several Key Executives CEO Jack Domme Appointed as Corporate Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. New COO, Global Sales, APAC Sales and Global Verticals Positions Named ...

Press published on the April 11th, 2013 - 9:30 AM ET

Nordson Corporation Announces Election of James E. DeVries to Corporate Vice President

Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) today announced the election of James E. DeVries as a Corporate Vice President of the company. DeVries serves as Nordson’s Vice President, Global Continuous Improvement, reporting ...

Press published on the November 30th, 2011 - 3:00 PM ET

What's in the "profile" on corporate (XP) systems?

When I log off from my works computer, it saves my "profile" back to the "profile server" - the idea being that when I log on it retrieves it, which means I can log on to any PC in the corporate network, more or less, and get my ...

Message posted on the February 20th, 2012 - 5:15 PM ET

How corporate America went open-source

<Quote> As Forrester Research analyst Jeffrey Hammond told those gathered at LinuxCon last week, "open source has crossed the chasm," adding that what was once the IT department's dirty little secret has now become "strategic ...

Message posted on the August 16th, 2010 - 9:07 PM ET

Installing dual-boot Windows 7 and Linux systems.

On Apr 2, 5:26 am, RayLopez99 <raylope...@gmail.com> wrote: [wants to have Windows 7 and Linux running on the same machine, dual- boot or ...] Ray, this was such a good question, and so relevant, that I felt it deserved it's own subject ...

Message posted on the April 8th, 2010 - 7:20 PM ET

Linux FAQs - Why to people still use Windows

On Apr 23, 9:45 pm, Marti van Lin <ml2...@gmail.com> wrote: An excellent question. I am seriously wondering why people are putting up with and even pay for that piece of junk which is called Microsoft Windows. The first problem is that ...

Message posted on the April 24th, 2010 - 4:14 AM ET

Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site'

<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/24/1325241/microsoft-blocks-fsf-donation-website-as-a-gambling-site> <quote> "The FSF slammed Microsoft for categorizing donate.fsf.org website as a 'Gambling Site.' Corporate systems that use a ...

Message posted on the June 24th, 2012 - 10:24 AM ET

BUG: IE8 and modal dialogs

Unline IE6 and IE7 now we've got absolutely useless modal dialogs. Well, for most corporate systems where modal dialogs are used to display catalogs, address books, and other forms with self-submit/refresh functions. IE8 doesn't allow to submit a ...

Message posted on the July 20th, 2009 - 4:46 PM ET