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Suicides at iPhone manufacturing plants cause corporate change

May 18, 2011 4:44am PDT

Foxconn's founder takes positive steps to alleviate issues that led to 11 suicides at the factory that makes iPhones.

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Making sense of Microsoft's academic licensing models

June 14, 2010 12:09am PDT

Microsoft licensing can be confusing for enterprise IT decision-makers, let alone a harried tech in a public school system. This guide will help sort out the terms, agreements, and licensing...

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Motorola ES400S photos

March 4, 2011 2:00pm PST

The Motorola ES400S is definitely too big and clunky for an average consumer, but mobile-task workers might find this a very useful tool for the job.

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Humanoid workers wow crowds at iRex (photos)

November 10, 2011 9:00am PST

Humanoid factory workers and heavy-duty industrial robots mix it up at the 2011 iRex robot trade show in Tokyo.

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Spotlight: Notable design collaboration software

March 25, 2010 8:09am PDT

Notable simplifies and speeds the review process for Web designers, developers, graphic artists, and other similar workers.

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Must-have mobile apps for smart workers

October 27, 2011 5:50am PDT

ZDNet Asia picks out top apps across four mobile platforms--iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone--to put some organization into your life.

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Top 10 sites banned at work (screenshots)

February 1, 2011 5:09am PST

Here are the 10 sites that are named by OpenDNS to be the biggest problems for businesses in 2010 - mostly for cutting back on worker productivity.

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Snow forces federal government to see advantages of telework

February 12, 2010 4:48am PST

Because of the snowstorm, D.C. employees got to see the advantage of teleworking. Will the system catch on?

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TechRepublic bloggers weigh in on offshoring

August 2, 2010 4:39am PDT

Is there a compelling reason for offshoring besides money savings? Four TechRepublic bloggers weigh in with their opinions.

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Cisco survey asks: Is the office really necessary?

October 21, 2010 4:38am PDT

According to a recent survey, end-users are demanding a more distributed workforce. Is your IT department, like half of the respondents, unprepared to support this?

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Charlie Sheen and other co-workers from Mars

March 10, 2011 5:53am PST

Can non-violent quirks ever be a reason to fire an employee? And, if so, when?

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Effort to save companies money on H-1B may backfire

June 12, 2011 2:48am PDT

In an attempt to stem the tide of too many H-1B petitions and too much company spend, the USCIS is proposing some changes.

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Weeding out potentially bad clients

September 23, 2011 10:56pm PDT

Unless you want to get stuck in a relationship with a nightmare client, it's a good idea to do some sleuthing up front.

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Programming news: H-1B visas, Red Gate's $1M challenge, Google's Summer of Code projects

April 27, 2009 11:25pm PDT

Justin James highlights news about offshoring, VA Smalltalk 8.0, historical debugging, IIS Smooth Streaming, Team System 2010, ASP.NET, Scala 2.7.4, a contest, and more.

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Catch up on AusCERT 2012

May 16, 2012 7:47pm PDT

The 11th edition of the AusCERT security conference is underway on Queensland's Gold Coast, and we've got the video lowdown.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes iPhone developer licensing agreement

March 10, 2010 12:03pm PST

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published Apple's iPhone Developer Program Licensing Agreement, taking advantage of the Freedom of Information Act. What is your take on the agreement and...

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Embrace the cloud and hosted services... with some rules

August 8, 2011 4:10am PDT

Scott Lowe shares some of the steps his organization takes when they research initiatives for individual units.

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Poll: Would you sign Apple's iPhone Developer agreement?

May 4, 2010 12:07am PDT

Although Justin James finds the terms of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License agreement unacceptable, he can see why some developers would be willing to sign it. Would you?

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The happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work

February 9, 2011 4:12am PST

Looking for a happy city in which to work? Here is a breakdown of the happiest and unhappiest.

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Suit filed against Department of Homeland Security over changes to H-1B visa

June 3, 2008 7:31am PDT

A group of individuals has filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security over a new rule that would increase the on-the-job training period for those in the country on H-1B visas.

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