Corporate Responsibility
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How tech firms float despite a Watergate
News update Expert involvement, admission of guilt and transparency are some elements that help keep IT brands alive after major scandals, say academia.
Tags: Crisis communications, Corporate responsibility, Computer Associates International Inc., Nanyang Technological University, Chinese company, Crisis communications, phone, professor, brand, accounting
Netizens driving firms' social responsibility
News Online communities increasingly driving corporate social responsibility in Asia-Pacific, but governments still hold most sway, finds new study.
Tags: Green IT, Web 2.0, Corporate responsibility, Hewlett-Packard Co., Asia, India, Asia-Pacific, Europe, corporate governance, Corporate Social Responsibility
Where business goals meet social gains
News More IT companies are leveraging their core capabilities, as well as urging employees to exercise corporate social responsibility.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, IBM Corp., India, Emergency Management, GPS, Emerging Market, information technology company, emergency response, information technology, leadership
Super scanners at British airports
News High-powered machines that produce detailed double X-ray images mean passengers no longer have to unpack laptops. Waits were cut to five minutes in June.
Tags: Security, Green IT, Biometrics, Airport Operator, Scanner, London, energy efficiency, Silicon.com, carbon dioxide, corporate responsibility
NCR debuts 'self-healing' ATMs in SEA
News The automated teller machines, which include the ability to reset in the event of software failures, are designed to help drive more revenue for banks, the vendor says.
Tags: Banking, Green IT, ATM, Automated Teller Machine, Security, NCR Corp., Philippines, printer, payment, software
Icahn to Yahoo: Nix the poison pill, now
News In a letter to board chairman Roy Bostock, the investor activist roars about Yahoo's "insulting" and "deceitful" actions regarding its severance plan.
Tags: Investor relations, Business development/management, Employee communications, Corporate responsibility, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., CNBC, software, job
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News Microsoft has helped develop an audio file format called Daisy that translates Word files into a 'talking' digital book format, making documents more accessible for users with impaired vision.
Tags: Open source, Corporate responsibility, Disability, Office Open XML, Tool, Australia, consortium, software, business development, vision
A bull market for social entrepreneurs
News Amid a woeful jobs market, Stanford grads are starting their own companies, many of them with hopes of changing the world.
Tags: Web 2.0, Entrepreneurship, Corporate responsibility, Cell Phone, phone, network, entrepreneur, patient, health care, Stanford
Xerox appoints new CEO
News In an unprecedented woman-to-woman transition, Anne Mulcahy passes the baton to Ursula Burns--whose chief challenge is to revive sales.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Xerox Corp., Cisco Catalyst, Sales, CEO, career, talent, supply chain, leadership, women
Compliance a CIO's priority but not for peers
News Regulatory compliance ranks high on the agenda of technology heads, but not necessarily so for the rest of top management, a new survey has found.
Tags: IT Governance, Infrastructure/architecture management, Management by objectives, Corporate responsibility, Growth strategies and tools, Leadership techniques, compliance, CIO, performance, high-performance
Should healthcare IT be 'low-profit'?
Blogs In my blog post last week, I discussed how tough it can be sometimes to meld capitalism and charity, primarily because b...
Vodafone to halve CO2 emissions by 2020
News Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient.
Tags: Green IT, Corporate responsibility
The Sun that shines under IT
Insight Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall counts down to the first phase of its new ERP project and shares what he believes the IT organization of the future will look like.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
'Sustainability' the key to innovation
News Putting corporate social responsibility higher up on the agenda can yield new business opportunities and investments, finds new report.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Investor relations, Employee communications, Recycling
WorldCom scandal shakes tech world
News WorldCom's US$4 billion shocker is bound to have widespread economic ramifications for global economies.
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