Studies and new research show employees who telecommute believe the arrangements actually hurt family life and career advancement. In fact, a number of supervisors are…
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A global network of sensors initially designed to listen for clandestine nuclear blasts is now being used to detect violent winds, volcanic eruptions, and the crash of…
Approximately 379 million people in 21 countries connected to the Internet from their homes in March, an increase of 6.8 million from February, according to…
A report finds that in the first quarter of 2001, a number of computer security issues, including incident and vulnerability reports, will top 2000 figures. The Computer…
The number of European households connected to the Internet increased by 55% between March and October of 2000, and Europe now has more users than the U.S., the European…
Appearing before a congressional panel, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers defended the process ICANN used to select new suffixes to…
An ongoing effort involving dozens of people and pilot programs with hundreds of employees at Sun Microsystems could be the next model for large high-tech companies…
NASA, Carnegie Mellon, and a dozen leading technology firms have formed the High Dependability Computing Consortium with the goal of creating crash-free software. The…
The U.S. Copyright Office endorsed a new federal law, a provision of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act, that makes it illegal to break the technological safeguards…
A new study claims exposure in early education to computers can harm children’s ability to reason, imagine, and play, and calls for legislators to refocus early…
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