Top executives at Computer Associates have hit back at allegations made by an influential shareholder that its accounting practices were not completely above board. In a letter, signed by eight CA board members, the executives dismissed claims the...
Urban myths abound about people using the drawer of their CD ROM drive as a coffee cup holder - not to mention the infamous woman whose PC had cut out and failed to restart. All summer silicon.com has been running a competition asking you, our...
All across Britain millions of schoolchildren dream of being plucked from suburban obscurity to become international footballers and scoring the winning goal in the World Cup final. But working from home can be a lonely affair and not everyone's...
Nortel Networks has shaken up its top management, firing its CEO and two other top executives as a result of an internal review of the company's accounting practices. When asked if the dismissal of Dunn and the two other executives were the result...
Oddly, the company decided to avoid making any "I'm feeling lucky" references with regards to Google Romance's chances of getting invited upstairs for "a cup of coffee" on the first date. Meanwhile, other technology-related April Fool's gags had...
The debate about whether - and how - to send work overseas has moved out of the IT department and into the domain of top-level business executives and the board. In a recent Forrester survey of business and IT executives in European companies that...