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Follow these tips to find certification answers online
Insight Here are seven tips to help you quickly receive the answers locate answers to your most disconcerting questions by using online forums.
Oracle to cut 5,000 jobs in PeopleSoft merger
News Firm drops the ax in effort to squeeze costs out of its US$10.3 billion PeopleSoft buyout. Combined firm will employ 50,000.
Tags: Mergers
Technology alarmism in spades
Insight perspectives Let's hold every government security program to unyielding standards of efficiency, effectiveness and privacy, says one industry observer.
Tags: Privacy
Determine the sum of sales for a particular day using one Excel formula
Techguide You can build an Excel formula that makes it easy to track sales. Here's how.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Frame, Document, Animation, Frown, Smile, Sales, Property, F5 Networks Inc., Figure
Japan bookstores urge camera-phone courtesy
News Japanese bookstores are sick and tired of browsers who snap pictures of magazines with their camera-phones. They want to put a stop to it.
Vignette venture capital plan to distribute income to employees
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Auckland University puts the smile back in email
News If over the years the joy has gone out of reading email, new software developed at the University of Auckland and already being commercialized by Boston-based LifeFX could offer a new way to liven up personal electronic letters.
Judge to consider throwing out Google suit
News Date set for federal judge to weigh Microsoft's motion to dismiss Google's countersuit over Kai-Fu Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Corporate law, Lawsuits
Create rich interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight
Techguide Web developers often frown on the use of technologies like Macromedia Flash or Adobe Shockwave to spice up Web interfaces.
Asia-Pac PC sales surge
News A post-SARS buying spree and the practice of reducing prices by not installing Windows during purchase pushed PC sales in the Asia Pacific to record levels during the third quarter.
eBay applies pressure to AuctionWatch
News eBay racheted up its tensions with AuctionWatch by sending the company a formal letter asking it to stay off its turf.
Oracle to acquire Siebel for US$5.8 billion
News update The database giant's offer represents a premium of nearly 17 percent over its rival's closing price Friday.
Tags: Business applications, Acquisitions
Would you hire a rehabilitated cracker?
Insight Is hiring a security specialist convicted for using his or her skills for illegal purposes worth the risk? We ask the experts.
Tags: Security Management, Personnel management
More than money?
Insight When management discusses improving employee retention rates, the initial topic is often money—specifically, higher salaries and bonuses. That’s partly valid, because money is a key element.
Netaid concerts take aim at world poverty
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