AFP – A Florida school district has told teachers not to be “friends” with students on social networking sites and to be very careful in using electronic communication to avoid legal and workplace problems.
AP – California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman had an altercation with an eBay employee when she was CEO of the company, The New York Times reported Monday, prompting Whitman’s campaign to say such disputes are not uncommon in high-stress workplaces.
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AP – Workplace computers across the world got stuck rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.
No room for backseat drivers Workshop Love it or hate it (and from the feedback we have seen from Reg readers, the jury is still very much out on this one), Unified Communications (UC) is here to stay, and it will increasingly make its presence felt in the workplace. Not only will it change the way people work , but also the way the IT environment is managed.…
It’s all in the crossover UC Unified Communications (UC) fixes fragmented workplace communications, right? But if businesses implement UC and carry on working in pretty much the same way as before (albeit more efficiently), they are probably missing a trick or two.…
AP – In a decision that could set new ground rules for Internet privacy in the workplace, New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled an employer was wrong in retrieving e-mails between a former employee and her attorney, even though they were sent from a company computer.
AP – A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.
Take everything you think you know about Apple’s upcoming tablet, reverse it, and you have Panasonic’s road-warrior Windows 7 field computer.
AP – Police in western New York say a fugitive all but turned himself in by posting his workplace on Facebook and MySpace.
