News tagged with office
Cost-cutting Yahoo to close offices for holidays
Dec 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Yahoo says it will close its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first time since 2001.
GAO: FCC must improve wireless industry oversight
Dec 10, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Federal regulators receive tens of thousands of customer complaints about wireless services every year, but don't do enough to follow up or to protect consumers who have problems with their mobile carriers, government ...
GAO: FDA yet to make safety changes post-Vioxx
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 09, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.
Microsoft to kick off Office 2010 in June
Dec 04, 2009 |
1 / 5 (1) |
1
When Microsoft starts selling Office 2010 next year, the company will take its workhorse software suite and move it one step closer to its vision of cloud computing.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta ready to download
Nov 19, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
If you want to try out Microsoft Office 2010, the beta is available for anyone to download, the company announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.
A pain in the neck: Researcher studies the effects of too much texting on college students
Nov 10, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
The world record for fastest text message typing is held by a 21-year old college student from Utah, but his dexterous digits could mean serious injury later on. Most adults aged 18-21 prefer texting over e-mail or phone ...
Los Angeles OKs plan to use Google Web services
Oct 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services.
Legal counsel affects death penalty cases
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Legal counsel is a matter of life and death in Houston, but it is not necessarily tied to a defendant's socioeconomic status, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at ...
Statistics experts reject global cooling claims
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (92) |
23
(AP) -- Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
Microsoft sales fall; cost cuts please investors
Oct 23, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
3
(AP) -- Consumers may be shopping for computers again, but Microsoft Corp. still needs businesses to start doing the same.
RI judge tosses patent verdict against Microsoft
Sep 30, 2009 |
1.7 / 5 (3) |
0
(AP) -- A federal judge in Rhode Island threw out a $388 million patent infringement jury verdict against Microsoft Corp., the latest move in a six-year legal skirmish.
Microsoft urges Web learning in case of swine flu
Sep 16, 2009 |
2 / 5 (2) |
0
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it can help schools get through swine flu.
Top US copyright cop opposes Google book deal
Sep 10, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
2
(AP) -- The nation's top copyright official has joined the mounting opposition to a class-action settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.
Cuban post offices OK'd for Internet access
Sep 09, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Cuba has authorized public Internet access at post offices across the country, though it has yet to apply what would be a landmark loosening of cyberspace rules in a nation where information is strictly controlled.
Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 02, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nintendo has come up with yet another idea for an accessory to add to its list of Wii peripherals. This time it's a soft football-shaped controller that is said to simulate the feel and touch ...
