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March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
March 24th, 2006
March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:10 pm
Categories: Employment
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March Madness is costing companies $3.8 bln in lost productivity. To arrive at that lost $3.8 bln, consultants Challenger, Gray Christmas used data showing that some 41% of US workers, or about 58 mln people, consider themselves college basketball fans.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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3 mln intelligent antenna handsets to ship in 2006
March 24th, 2006
3 mln intelligent antenna handsets to ship in 2006
Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:10 pm
Categories: Wireless data
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Over 3 mln intelligent antenna handsets are anticipated to ship through 2006, according to Research and Markets. GSM operators in the developing world, the study finds, will apply IA technology selectively within base stations and even broader support for IA is expected from TD-SCDMA operators. Approximately 40,000 mobile base stations are expected to ship with IA capabilities in 2010 due to cellular wireless data demands, which will also drive demand for IA-enabled PTP microwave backhaul. WiFi providers are shipping pre-802.11n product that features multiple-in-multiple out capabilities and the study finds other IA technologies are expected ...
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Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
March 24th, 2006
Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:10 pm
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World-class finance executives get customers to pay their bills nearly 30% faster than typical companies, according to The Hackett Group. A typical $10 bln company can generate more than $35.8 mln/year in bottom-line savings if they achieve world-class performance in this area by reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), a standard measure of how quickly companies get paid by their customers. World-class finance organizations now spend 42% less in the finance function than typical companies (0.73% of revenue versus 1.26%), and have 44% fewer finance staff (63 employees/ bln of revenue versus 112). The cost gap between...
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Plus size clothing is $32 bln industry
March 24th, 2006
Plus size clothing is $32 bln industry
Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:10 pm
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American women have gotten larger, and plus-size clothing manufacturers have stepped up marketing efforts in the last five years. According to Mintel, the plus-size clothing market reached close to $32 bln in 2004. In 5 years, the segment has posted close to 50% revenue growth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cited that over 62% of women were like to be overweight or obese between 1999 and 2002, and this trend is being reflected in the sharp sales increase in this clothing category.
Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals.
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State Dept. buy of 15,000 Chinese computers spawns fear in DC
March 24th, 2006
State Dept. buy of 15,000 Chinese computers spawns fear in DC
Posted by ZDNet @ March 24, 2006 @ 12:55 PM
Categories: Government technology, Contracting
Tags: PC, Lenovo Group Ltd., Computer, ZDNet
More concern over foreign companies being involved in US government functions: The New York Times reports that the State Dept. is being criticized for purchasing 15,000 Lenovo personal computers in a purchase worth $13 million. Lenovo is the Chinese company that bought IBMs PC business last year. A State spokesman said the computers were intended for unclassified use.
Is the US on the verge of isolationist paranoia? A Dubai company running US ports may be one thing, but the squashing of the Sourcefire deal over open source software the company created but does no...
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Microsoft delays, reorgs, Net neutrality and more...
March 24th, 2006
Microsoft delays, reorgs, Net neutrality and more
Posted by Dan Farber @ 12:33 pm
Categories: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Between the Lines podcast
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This week on The Dan & David Show,wediscuss the delay of Windows Vista and Office 2007 and whetherthe reorganization at the top of the Redmond heapshuffling the deck chairswill impact Microsofts face off with the emerging Web giants and ankle biters.We also discuss comments made by AT&T CEO Ed Whitacreabout merging with BellSouth and about theNet Neutrality debate.The podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop
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Coming up: Apple turns 30
March 24th, 2006
Coming up: Apple turns 30
Posted by Dan Farber @ 12:19 pm
Categories: General, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure
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Coming up: On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded in Mountain View, CA. The company incorporated in early 1977, and introduced the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire the same year. The Apple II had a 1 MHzMOS Technology 6502 microprocessorand4 KB of RAM, expandable to 48 KB. The 48 KB version sold for $2638. About the same amount of moneytoday gets youaniMac with a2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 2MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed, from 512 MBto2 GB of RAM and much, much more thanks to Moores Law, Steve Jobs and thousands of others. Wellhave more coverage next week
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Sourcefire acquisition scuttled
March 24th, 2006
Sourcefire acquisition scuttled
Posted by ZDNet @ March 24, 2006 @ 12:06 PM
Categories: Government technology, Defense, Open source, International
Tags: ZDNet
The Israeli company CheckPoint and the small Maryland company Sourcefire called off a proposed acquisition under intense scrutiny from government investigators, the Washington Post reports.The deal was widely criticized, in light of the huge concern over a Dubai companys proposed acquisition of American ports, by the defense community because Sourcefires open source Snort software is widely used on government computers.
The companies would not comment publicly on the specifics of the investigation but said they were ending the transaction because of the complexity of the CFIUS [Committee on Foreign ...
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Does open source have boundaries?
March 24th, 2006
Does open source have boundaries?
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 12:02 pm
Categories: General, Development, Distributions
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Over at The Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove asks today if there are boundaries to open source. (The post has since been Slashdotted.)
He points to Suns open-sourcing of its SPARC designs, Tim Berners-Lee asking that ordnance data be open-sourced, and the approval of the Creative Commons license in the Netherlands as pushing the boundaries of where we thought open source might work.
Here is what I think.
The real limits to the business model lie in provable commercial advantage. So long as a company gains a net benefit from hiding its code, the code will be hidden. Once that is no longer the case, it makes perfect sense to go open so...
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Can we save the Amazon rainforest?
March 24th, 2006
Can we save the Amazon rainforest?
Posted by Roland Piquepaille @ 11:41 am
Categories: Energy Environment, Science Nature
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There are plenty of alarming reports on the future of our planet, such as the oceans rising by several meters before 2100. Still, there are things we can do to improve the situation. For example, by simply respecting existing laws, it should be possible to save a million square kilometers of rainforest by 2050 according to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). On the contrary, if the current forces of destruction continue to be active without opposition, two more million square kilometers of the Amazon forest will disappear in less than half a century.
Scientists from several institutions in Brazil worked with the Woods Hole Resea...
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Schools IT chiefs bribery conviction upheld
March 24th, 2006
Schools IT chiefs bribery conviction upheld
Posted by ZDNet Editor @ 11:30 am
Categories: Education Technology, IT Management
Tags: Pennsylvania, Information Technology, E-Rate, ZDNet Editor
The US Court of Appeals upheld a three-year prison sentence for a Pennsylvania school district IT manager for receiving some $2 million in kickbacks related to the federal E-Rate program, News.com reports.
In spring 2002, John Henry Weaver was serving as director of information technology of the Harrisburg School District in Pennsylvania, which had just awarded a company called EMO Communications a contract to supply approximately 800 laptop computers. The project would receive the bulk of its funding from the Federal Communications Commissions multimillion-dollar E-r...
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