A Chinese company that offers an alternative to Microsoft Office is riding the wave by presenting a web version of its office suite. Evermore Software , based in Wuxi, a city in eastern China, has been offering software comparable to Microsoft Office but less expensive for several years now. Now that the company sees its rival…
If your old computer equipment is enough for you to accomplish all your tasks, do not hesitate to continue saving your money by using it for a few more years, against the backdrop of a sluggish economy. In January, for the tenth consecutive year, I took my little Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) Jordana laptop computer to a…
Nevertheless, figures announced by the PayScale website suggest that the level of wages could fall this year. Another area in decline: bonuses. Even as employers in IT companies downsize to weather the recession, wages for those who remain employed in IT appear to be rising. Wages for IT jobs are on the rise in companies…
The idolized takeover of Apple by its co-founder Steve Jobs gives you goosebumps, but the number of similarities it bears with Edison is even more impressive. It was there when the personal computer (PC – Personal Computer) was born. He had his second appearance. He restored a very unhealthy society. And throughout his career, he…
Mobile phone sales are slowing much faster than expected, and even Nokia, once a stock market favorite, is feeling the humiliation inflicted on it by its devaluation. Just a few months ago, the mobile phone industry looked like it could escape the worst of the global economic downturn. After all, billions of people living in emerging…
A small biotech company thinks it can make trading rooms better by eliminating people. In the midst of the biggest financial crisis of this generation, a tiny biotech company called Gene Network Sciences based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, thinks it can make Wall Street smarter. How? By getting rid of the man. Their idea: Take the supercomputers Gene Network…
The Airbus parent company is designing a technologically advanced artificial heart for a spin-off company like Carmat SAS. Within three years, the device could be validated for use on humans. For more than 15 years, European Aeronautics Defense & Space – better known as EADS – the parent company of aircraft manufacturer Airbus, has been working…
Change.org is a two-year-old online community that seeks to bring attention to world issues: climate change, immigration, ethnic cleansing and so on. But this week, the organization looks set to make its biggest change. The subject: herself. The site, which despite calling itself the “change” is not affiliated with any of the US presidential candidates,…
The software giant wants to climb the ladder in the game console market to better compete with Sony and Nintendo and convert more gamers. Microsoft thought it could shake the competition when it launched its Xbox 360 video game console at the end of 2005, a year before its competitors launched an equivalent product. The idea…
In 1983, in an episode of the cult series “The All-Risk Agency”, George Peppard, alias Hannibal, said to Mr T. alias Barracuda: “an old adage tells us that the best offense is a good defense”. To which Mr T. replies: “You don’t have the right formula, dear friend. A good offense is the best defence.” And they gave…
