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In a bid to facilitate online collaboration between Teams work accounts by big firms and personal accounts being used by SMBs, Microsoft is now rolling out bidirectional communication for the two.
As more people begin working from home the UK's broadband and mobile companies have said they'll be able to handle the increased demand from teleconferencing, gaming, and TV streaming.
On September 17, Amazon will be hosting the nation's largest job fair in six locations where over 30,000 full-time and part-time positions at the tech firm paying north of $15/hr will be up for grabs.
Microsoft has announced support for Azure Active Directory work and school accounts in Edge Canary, Dev, and Beta channel preview builds. It said that the feature was highly requested by users.
A new study by the Bureau of Economic Research has suggested that young men choose to work fewer hours mainly because of video games, amongst other reasons including companies hiring fewer men.
Sitting at a desk for long hours can take a toll on the body if your chair isn't comfortable and supportive. Here is my take on the high-quality noblechairs EPIC leather chair.
A new study has found out that notifications received from our phones tend to decrease our work efficiency and productivity, as the brain is reportedly distracted on the message's possible content.
A new app has been released to let office workers speak their mind while at work, without getting caught. Named Memo, it is an app that aims to make a company better by giving employees a voice.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move.
News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website. According to Epicenter, a recent study...
Our Apple-loving pals over at CNBC have confirmed that Steve Jobs, who was away from work due to health complications, is now back working at the Cupertino company. There's been a few employees who have...
When Circuit City announced that it was closing all of its stores it showed the true signs of the economy. Circuit City was a massive corporation employing over 30,000 employees which would all be...
In more Massive news, Activision have announced that they will continue their partnership with Massive Inc for a further 18 titles. If you've ever played "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock", or "Tony Hawk's Proving...
I know when going to work one of the most annoying things that can happen is traffic jams especially if you have to get somewhere before a certain time well Microsoft may have a wacky...
Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for...
El_Oscuro brings us a Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million...
As companies move to restrict Web surfing at work, more of them are blocking access to MySpace than to Facebook, according to a survey released Wednesday by Web security company Barracuda Networks Inc. While 44%...
Microsoft released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing today, hitting the final milestone for software that will power several turnkey home servers that OEMs will put on the market in late September and early October....
So, think porting Halo 2 from the Xbox to Windows Vista was easy? Well, it might have been easy I suppose. But the way this blog post from one of the developers goes, it sounds...
The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders. "EFF and others have...
Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95....
As many of you have discovered already, the newly released (for 800 Microsoft points no less) Valor map pack for Call of Duty 3 has 5 brand new maps for you to kill each other...
Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No." The question and answer might seem strange given that Microsoft released Windows Vista gold code in early November...
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on applications for mobile computers that will increase their attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday. Ericsson said the joint effort...
People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. "These kids are saying: forget...
Thanks Andareed for submitting this in Back page News on our forums. Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such...
Apple has quietly introduced a new "Mac at Work" section to its US website. The new zone is available through the navigation buttons at the top of the company's US website. It's UK website still...
According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year,...
When Mortal Kombat burst onto the arcade scene in the early 1990s, manygamers were taken aback at how the characters looked like real people.Of course, they were real people, digitized and animated. In fact, themajority...
Open for Business expansion is...open for business; add-on lets Sims trudge off to work, manage store, hire, and fire employees. With more than 58 million units moved, the...
NASA has chosen Texas Tech University computer scientists to help develop software that will aid in the design and building of an abort system for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA engineers will work with...
In the interests of helpingentrepreneurs bring their ideas to a larger audience, Microsoft corp. andGoogle Inc. have set aside their differences and will jointly fund a new labdubbed Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or...
Redmond, Wash.--For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents...
Microsoft and Sun on Friday provided the second update of their yearlong technical cooperation work, with Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer summing up the progress by saying they've moved from the courtroom to the lab...
The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. Linus Torvalds, the creator...
The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand...
The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive. The companies' integration project, headed by Microsoft's Bill...
Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs has quietly returned to work full time after taking a leave of absence to recover from cancer surgery. Jobs has been participating in high-level staff meetings over the past...
Microsoft has denied reports by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) that it's outsourcing core development to Indian contractors. Earlier this week the WashTech reported that Microsoft was planning on outsourcing the core...
