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In a bid to facilitate online collaboration between Teams work accounts by big firms and personal accounts being used by SMBs, Microsoft is now rolling out bidirectional communication for the two.

On September 17, Amazon will be hosting the nation's largest job fair in six locations where over 30,000 full-time and part-time positions at the tech firm paying north of $15/hr will be up for grabs.

A new study by the Bureau of Economic Research has suggested that young men choose to work fewer hours mainly because of video games, amongst other reasons including companies hiring fewer men.

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A new study has found out that notifications received from our phones tend to decrease our work efficiency and productivity, as the brain is reportedly distracted on the message's possible content.

A new app has been released to let office workers speak their mind while at work, without getting caught. Named Memo, it is an app that aims to make a company better by giving employees a voice.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a new policy in June that will bar employees from working at home. According to a report, many company employees are irate at the move.

News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website. According to Epicenter, a recent study...

Our Apple-loving pals over at CNBC have confirmed that Steve Jobs, who was away from work due to health complications, is now back working at the Cupertino company. There's been a few employees who have...

When Circuit City announced that it was closing all of its stores it showed the true signs of the economy. Circuit City was a massive corporation employing over 30,000 employees which would all be...

I know when going to work one of the most annoying things that can happen is traffic jams especially if you have to get somewhere before a certain time well Microsoft may have a wacky...

Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. Formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, Zemlin also has served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies, providing products and services for...

El_Oscuro brings us a Washington Post update on the progress of Future Combat Systems, the U.S. Army's Linux-based operating environment that has been under development for several years. The project, which currently surpasses 63 million...

As companies move to restrict Web surfing at work, more of them are blocking access to MySpace than to Facebook, according to a survey released Wednesday by Web security company Barracuda Networks Inc. While 44%...

Microsoft released Windows Home Server (WHS) to manufacturing today, hitting the final milestone for software that will power several turnkey home servers that OEMs will put on the market in late September and early October....

So, think porting Halo 2 from the Xbox to Windows Vista was easy? Well, it might have been easy I suppose. But the way this blog post from one of the developers goes, it sounds...

The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders. "EFF and others have...

Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95....

Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No." The question and answer might seem strange given that Microsoft released Windows Vista gold code in early November...

People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. "These kids are saying: forget...

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According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year,...

When Mortal Kombat burst onto the arcade scene in the early 1990s, manygamers were taken aback at how the characters looked like real people.Of course, they were real people, digitized and animated. In fact, themajority...

In the interests of helpingentrepreneurs bring their ideas to a larger audience, Microsoft corp. andGoogle Inc. have set aside their differences and will jointly fund a new labdubbed Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or...