Germany's regulatory authority has set a landmark precedent by approving recommendations for shared 3G networks - reducing the financial burden on telcos already crippled by the cost of UMTS licences.
Sun's N1 initiative, for example, is aimed primarily at automating data centre operations, as is HP's Utility Data Center products. For customers, support for standards would allow a business to automate management of hardware and software from...
The result can be strained relationships, lowered morale and reduced efficiency. Once employees are regularly checking with the portal, all those boring staff manuals full of rules and regulations can be put online too, saving huge printing and...
Staff morale may also be low, following news of expected £1.5m post-merger cost savings. That won't help morale. Ovum senior analyst Angel Dorbardziev said: "If I was an employee working for either firm, I'd be thinking 'will that [cost-saving] be me?
Just over half of respondents (51 per cent) said the long-hours culture in the UK affects productivity and 42 per cent said excessive working hits morale. Working long hours is having a negative impact on many UK tech workers as it hits morale and...
John Cridland, deputy director general of the CBI, said many businesses feel as long as the work gets done there's no problem with personal internet use as it can actually boost productivity and morale.