Meet Modern’s team of editors covering ProMat 2013. Bob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock, Modern’s executive editor, has covered materials handling, technology and supply chain topics for Modern Materials Handling since 1984. A ...
Tags: ProMat, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery
Computerworld-Google is looking at its cloud-based apps for the enterprise not as a small side business,but as a major driver of future growth. The company,known worldwide for its highly dominant search engine,has been pushing toward the ...
Tags: Google, future Growth Engine
Nebraska Furniture Mart has acquired an additional office building here for its corporate headquarters, whose staff will be expanded as the retailer prepares to open its big new store in Dallas in 2015, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The ...
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IDG News Service - Sony Mobile is laying off 1,000 employees and will also move its global HQ to Tokyo, as the company tries to turn around its dwindling fortunes in the smartphone space. The reorganization comes about six months after ...
Tags: Sony Mobile, Sony, smartphone, Sony portfolio
Computerworld-Microsoft may announce the first public preview of Office 2013,the likely name for its next productivity suite,at its annual gathering with partners later today. Although Microsoft has not publicly revealed its plans for ...
Office furniture doesn’t last forever, and maybe that’s a good thing. Can you imagine what offices would look like if no one ever had to redecorate? Sure, we all love the show “Mad Men,” but try to find a place to ...
Tags: furniture, office furniture, old furniture, tips
UK-based Contego Packaging has finalized sale proceedings of its food and beverage Cartons business to Graphic Packaging Holding Company. According to the company, the acquisition, which received approval from the Office of Fair Trading ...
Tags: Contego Packaging, sale proceedings, Graphic Packaging Holding Company
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, how much online buying will be done at work? If it's not, this is the question that should be on IT managers' minds, according to ...
Tags: holiday shopping, online shopping, time, bandwidth
A new survey by technical support website FixYa indicates that users of the top five cloud storage services are most concerned about capacity, security and missing files. FixYa asked users of its service about the top five issues cloud ...
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IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
Tags: servers, hosting service, core routing system, controversial websites
IDG News Service-Chinese regulators are cracking down on video and films made by the nation's Internet firms with new measures meant to encourage the production of more positive programs. On Monday,China's State Administration of Radio ...
Tags: China, videos on Internet, regulations
The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Germany, the lawyer who requested the inquiry said Thursday. In ...
Tags: Google, Street View, WiFi Sniffing, Germany
Computerworld - Saying that a spokeswoman "misunderstood" questions from Computerworld, Microsoft today backtracked and confirmed that Mac owners who subscribe to the upcoming Office 365 Home Premium will be able to acquire Office for Mac ...
Tags: Microsoft, Macs, Office, Computerworld, Windows
People in the Sunshine State stood in line for hours to exercise their franchise, in some cases six hours or more after the polls had officially closed. Numerous causes have been cited, from a shortened early voting period to a 10-page-long ...