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Richard+Clarke+on+recent+Mideast+cable+outages9/11Think about what would have happened on 9/11 if an airliner would have taken out 60 Hudson Street in Manhattan, rather than the WTC. The 60 Hudson office is one of the most dense international communications hubs in the world. Voice, data including TV network feeds, Internet...

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Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Intel reorg hits home in Hudson

Intel reorg hits home in HudsonIntel CEO going berserk?It's an amazing about face at Intel. Just a few years ago it was about being big, top line growth and entering new markets. One CEO later, it's about being small, the bottom line and back to x86 processors only. How...

Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Hudson

Discussion threads 2007-01-06

Intel reorg hits home in Hudson

Intel’s reorganization continues. The chipmaker, which said it would cut 10 percent of its workforce—about 10,500 jobs—by mid-2007 as part of an effort to save money and become more agile and efficient, has been reworking its operation in Hudson, Mass., according to a new report in today’s Worchester Telegram &...

Tags: Uncategorized, Hudson, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Survey: Tech workers fret about layoffs

The Hudson Employment Index reports that 22 percent of technology workers expect layoffs, up nearly 7 points from the previous month. Meanwhile technology worker confidence fell 6 points to 109.8 in December. The Hudson Employment Index...

Tags: worker, IT worker, finance, Hudson Employment Index, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-01-03

42.5% were satisfied with their financial situation in September

Staffing firm Hudson said its index of IT workers' confidence in the job market slid in September, after having risen from May to August. Among other findings, Hudson's report discovered a dip in the portion of IT workers who see their personal finances improving. In August, 51% of IT workers...

Tags: Hudson, IT worker

Blog posts 2004-10-07

Better times for techies?

Better times for techies?Unemployment down, or benefits ran out and not counted anymore?It looks like it got a little better...Less Americans interested in technology jobsSince BUSH has provided incentives for companies to export jobs, less jobs mean less people pursing them. Very simple.BUSH measures this as reduced unemployment- republican victory!!...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, IEEE-USA, Hudson, job, Better Time, information technology, headhunter

Discussion threads 2004-08-19

IT optimism up, unemployment down

The Hudson employment index for IT workers rose to 112.1 in July, up 4 points from June and 11 points from May. Hudson's national index for July hit 108.4, up from 107.9 in June. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate for computer-related occupations dropped to 4.5% in Q2...

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Blog posts 2004-08-13

Hudson's Bay Company Uses Internet-Based Solutions to Target Its Marketplace - One Customer at a Time

Hudson's Bay Company Hbc is Canada's oldest corporation and largest department store retailer. Hbc wants to leverage the breadth of products and services offered throughout its retail channels, align customer touch points, logistics, and retail enablement, creating a common front to the customer through credit cards, loyalty programs, and gift...

Tags: Customer, Cisco Systems Inc., Hudson, Hbc, Internet, Supply Chain, Business Operations

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Hudson's Bay Company Saves More Than US$130K Annually in Administrative Cost Reduction and Expects to Achieve 100% ROI Within 2 Years With Oracle E-Business Suite

Throughout its long history, Hudson's Bay Company HBC has consistently embraced change and innovation to remain successful within the highly competitive Canadian retail market. The company recognized the need to adopt a long-range strategy to improve organizational efficiency and productivity while aggressively pursuing consumer value. In its first phase of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Cost Reduction, ROI, Hudson, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Management, Software

Case studies

Hudson's Bay Company Keeps Customers at the Centre of Its Business With an Avaya Contact Centre Solution

Hudson's Bay Company HBC, Canada's largest department store retailer and oldest corporation, needed to ensure that its contact centres were adequately equipped to deal with the most urgent customer demands. Anticipating an increase in call volume due to a credit card and loyalty program consolidation and online shopping calls, Hudson's...

Tags: Avaya Inc., Hudson, Retail, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales

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News to know: Yahoo; ToorCon; Microsoft Surface, XP; Apple; Psystar

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft Nathan McFeters: ToorCon Seattle 2008: Nuke plants, non-existent sub domain attacks, muffin diving, and Guitar Hero ToorCon gallery. Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Hard Drive, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Veterans Administration, Help Desk, Open Source, It Operations

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Those scoundrels! Sounds like the Brits aren't so great at recycling PCs, either

Those scoundrels! Sounds like the Brits aren't so great at recycling PCs, eitherBritish me-me-me'ismis rife too. Our politicians barely ever talk about anything other than £££, business, business, business.It's so sad to be surrounded by fat and getting fatter self interested money chasing morons.And with both parents (where such households...

Tags: Desktops, scoundrel, PC

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Community Health Nonprofit Tackles Flagging Productivity With New Server Deployment

North Hudson Community Action Corporation is a cornerstone of health and human services in New Jersey, serving more than 64,000 low-income residents at eight locations spread across three counties. The plan was to replace the servers running Windows Server 2003 with a new application publishing platform. Eden and his team...

Tags: HTTP, Microsoft Windows Server, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Terminal Services, Vertical Industries, Servers, Benefits, Healthcare, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-03-06

This old (green) house

I have a confession to make: I am a preservationist. I'm nuts about old houses with stories to tell and atmosphere to spare, a passion that may seem at odds with my green leanings. Give me Newport, Rhode Island, with its Anglo-estate-envy or Cape May, with her...

Tags: Fact, Green, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-13

EU fines Sony, others for videotape price fixes

EU fines Sony, others for videotape price fixesjust wondering...[i]The cartel covered the two most popular professional videotape formats at the time--Betacam SP and Digital Betacam[/i].Could it be the $ony & Co is repeating the history with the blue ray?If you look arround the blue-ray disks and players are double compared...

Tags: HD DVD, Benefits, Consumer electronics, Digital media, Sony Corp., cartel

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Microsoft hones its Vista holiday pitch

This year will mark the first time that Microsoft and its partners will have a chance to make their pitch for why Vista PCs should be on your holiday gift lists. To kick things off, Microsoft is holding a Windows Vista holiday-preview event this week in New...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Let the river flow, but keep an eye on it

From my limited interaction with my fellow blogger Harry, I know that he's a bird nut. I'm a diving gal, myself, so I'm disposed to notice stuff about marine biology.This story from The New York Times was brought to my attention when I reached out to one of my IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Ruling on Novell's Unix assets bolsters OSS, binds Novell and IBM

So Novell really does now finally seem to own the Unix copyrights. Linux finds itself on a high-ground pedestal of long-term, low-risk use (unless Microsoft buys Novell [should have when they could have, eh?]). And IBM and Novell are closer than ever.Fun times.The folly of the SCO Group FUD fiasco...

Tags: Asset, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Unix, IBM Corp., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Plan and schedule your project the pragmatic way

A pragmatic project manager knows that there are many possible "right" ways to schedule a project, and that an initial project plan will always evolve as the project gets underway. As a pragmatic project manager, your job is to start the project with just enough planning and to...

Tags: Project, Chapter Coverage, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Book chapters 2007-08-08

Beef up your Ubuntu Linux system admin toolkit with these essential system monitoring tools

To keep systems in optimum shape, administrators need to be able to monitor them closely. Fortunately, Ubuntu provides a wealth of utilities designed to give you as much or as little feedback as you want. In this chapter download from Ubuntu Unleashed, Second Edition, investigate basic monitoring tools...

Tags: Ubuntu, Sams Publishing, System Monitoring, Ubuntu Linux, Tool, Linux, Productivity, It Services, Network Administration, Operating Systems, Software, Networking

Book chapters 2007-08-03