Best idea ever: the three-day workweek!
The magazine NewScientist makes a compelling case for the four-day workweek. I have a better idea: How about a three-day workweek. Keep the office open three days a week, and have staff work from home (or wherever) two days per week. Everybody wins!
Windows 7 Moves People to the Cloud
One of the hottest buzzwords in technology is the 'Cloud'. Vendors across all types of computer applications and services are looking for ways to leverage the power of cloud computing. Microsoft takes that a step further by making it easier to move a different kind of resource to the cloud: people.
Cisco sends employees home to work
Cisco today revealed it has garnered more than $277 million in productivity savings by letting employees work from home using the company’s own virtual office technology.
Swine flu threat raises telework questions
The possibility of a widespread swine flu outbreak is prompting companies to think about business continuity and how options such as telework may become a necessity.
Best Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers
The Microsoft Global Foundation Services' data center team released a new paper today titled: "Top 10 Best Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers." Its objective is to help data center managers, industry operators and IT professionals reduce energy consumption and waste to cut costs, drive efficiencies and generate good will among c
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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
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