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Bring back punch cards. A SURVEY CLAIMED workers using IT incorrectly costs UK business a frankly astonishing £1.7 billion a day. Samsung Electronics commissoned YouGov to canvass 2,000 officer workers about the problems, opinions and attitude to IT. The results conclude a large majority of people using IT spend their time fixing problems or searching uselessly for documents.

The World Wide Web has gone through so many changes throughout the years. The way it is used and what it is used for continues to evolve. Some things were just fads that were fun for awhile but then people got bored of them. Other things were just bad ideas and we were glad to see them go. However, some things have become very integrated into the way we use the Internet in our daily lives. One example of this is social bookmarking. Some of the biggest, high traffic sites are social bookmarking sites that allow people to vote for the stories, news, and videos that others should see.

Upstarts are taking on the A-Team of the desktop software world: Microsoft Office. Do they have a chance? This is as close to a soap opera as the tech world gets. An unknown company sets out to take on the largest software maker in the world. It raises millions in funding and creates a product—only to see its potential market vanish in the tech crash. Forced to sell itself to survive, it perseveres long enough to make a comeback six years later to rapturous users.

The German’s leading new media company Markus Media has reinvented the hardware review website with the launch of its latest blog Unterhaltungselektronik ‘ This is the first computer hardware site to major on video reviews of products,’ says Markus Media’s creative director, Markus Sumawelt.

Backing up data is a critical and important aspect of business strategy and planning for smb (small and midsize businesses) and for individual PC users. It is a key element in information technology policy. Statistics show that data loss can mean a severe blow to any business. Data backup is simple to do, at least on paper. There are a number of

Dallas: Computer giant Dell is recalling 4.1 million laptop batteries because of a risk they can overheat and catch fire. While the majority of the batteries being recalled were in products sold in the US, more than 1 million are believed to be from computers sold abroad. A Dell spokesman said the Sony made batteries affected by the problem were

When Narayan Newton, an Oregon State computer science student, received an e-mail from a prominent developer of Linux desktop applications, he expected it to be a complaint. “I’d submitted some bug reports,” he says. Instead, Newton was surprised to learn that the programmer, Duncan Mac-Vicar, would be his personal mentor for three months