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Ikea assembles pay as you go mobile
News The Family Mobile service will launch on 8 August and Ikea will kick off the offer by giving its entire body of 9,500 UK 'co-workers' -- aka store staff -- a free mobile phone and SIM loaded with £5 credit.
Tags: account, family, rate, credit
5 August 2008, 8:13
PC World stocking Atom mini laptop
News He added: "We are telling our staff and customers that the best way to think of them is: netbooks are for viewing; notebooks are for doing. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a...
Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing
8 July 2008, 8:50
'Boring' IT classes put off future careers
News Companies already have difficulty sourcing skilled IT staff -- and government and industry bodies have warned thousands more skilled staff will be needed over the coming years to power the so called 'knowledge economy'.
Tags: kids, industry, entry, study
18 June 2008, 8:55
News.blog: Yahoo, Google agree to ad deal
News News.com staff writer Ina Fried contributed to this report. Yahoo announced a nonexclusive partnership on Thursday under which rival Google will supply it with some search ads, a move that could increase
Tags: cash, ads, displayed, deal
13 June 2008, 9:51
Google office voted best UK workplace
News At its Silicon Valley complex, it's famed for pampering staff with gourmet free food and more flavours of smoothie than there are colours in the rainbow, but Google employees closer to home can now feel smug as its London GooglePlex has been named...
Tags: google, employee, european, staff
29 May 2008, 8:49
ID card scheme short on suppliers
News EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of the single 'framework contract', including a £500m deal to replace the existing passport application system, the £500m biometric fingerprint and photograph database, the...
Tags: commercial, award, contract, scheme
27 May 2008, 8:35
Vodafone bundles mobile data with tariffs
News Vodafone is also training up 40 staff to tour its stores around the country and help customers familiarise themselves with the concept of the Internet on a handset. Vodafone has put unlimited mobile data usage into all its new monthly tariffs...
Tags: unlimited, customers, plan, charge
6 May 2008, 8:16
Photos: Wearable tech at 2nd Skin show
News Exploratorium staff member. Anna Rochester, an Exploratorium staff member, created this sweet dress from Snickers wrappers. Science and technology converged with art and fashion at "2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing", a...
28 April 2008, 9:24
'Alarming' 100 UK data leaks in six months
News Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to protect staff and customers' personal information following an 'alarming number' of security breaches reported to his office in the past six months.
Tags: protection, records, financial, cases
23 April 2008, 9:17
Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy
News This is the Mike-and-Jeff team, a pair of Carnegie Mellon staff engineers, walking back from the first of three trials. The rules of the mobot races let anyone affiliated with Carnegie Mellon, including children of staff, faculty and alumni, enter...
Tags: kit, motion, students, race
22 April 2008, 9:20
Male-targeted mobiles hogging market
News Gartner are predicting a shift in the workplace make-up, with more people working later in life in developed countries and a wider mix of gender and ethnicity among staff worldwide. Mobile phones are designed by men for men, with women and children...
Tags: products, mobiles, children, men
11 April 2008, 9:37
Motorola to split into two businesses
News Garner said the decision to split off the handset division would likely "draw a line" under the current arrangement, which he described as "a bit of a poisoned chalice", noting the high departure rates of executives and staff.
Tags: businesses, split, broadband, motorola
27 March 2008, 8:46
Photos: A2's flights of hypersonic fancy
News Caption text by Jonathan Skillings, staff writer, CNET News.com. Imagine having a late breakfast in Europe and then dinner in Australia, all in the same day. No time zone trickery involved. And imagine, too, paying no more for that junket than you...
Tags: engines, achieve, term, plane
7 February 2008, 9:36
Online age verification rules may increase
News In many cases, delivery drivers are instructed to verify the age of the person who receives the goods at the doorstep, in the same way as counter staff ask for proof of age in store. An MP is calling for a change in the law to force online...
Tags: standards, age, law, bill
22 January 2008, 8:45
Photos: How to survive a Humvee rollover
News Caption text by Jonathan Skillings, staff writer, CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com Among the dangers faced by the coalition ground troops in Iraq, some of the most pernicious are roadside bombs that target moving vehicles.
Tags: training, story, department, army
12 November 2007, 10:11


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