Neowin News Feed for: Work

Slack is currently facing an outage for users worldwide

Mehrotra A — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:50:11 +0000

If you are not able to access Slack right now then you are not alone. The collaboration app is currently facing a worldwide outage and the company is investigating the issue to mitigate the problem. Read more...

Teams work users can now chat with external, personal accounts

Usama Jawad — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:20:01 +0000

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. Read more...

UK: Broadband firms will deal with Covid-19 stress

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:12:02 +0000

As more people begin working from home the UK's broadband and mobile companies have said they'll be able to handle the increased demand from teleconferencing, gaming, and TV streaming. Read more...

Amazon announces the nation's largest job fair⁠—The Amazon Career Day

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:44:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft Edge Insider builds now support sign-in from work and school accounts

Paul Hill — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced support for Azure Active Directory work and school accounts in Edge Canary, Dev, and Beta channel preview builds. It said that the feature was highly requested by users. Read more...

New study suggests men choose to work less because of video games

Dreyer Smit — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 20:38:01 +0000

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. Read more...

noblechairs EPIC series real leather chair review

Robbie Khan — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:02:01 +0000

Sitting at a desk for long hours can take a toll on the body if your chair isn't comfortable and supportive. Here is my take on the high-quality noblechairs EPIC leather chair. Read more...

Study says smartphones are distracting us even without using them

Justin Luna — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 23:06:01 +0000

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. Read more...

New "Memo" app lets you rant about your thoughts while at work

Justin Luna — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:02:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Yahoo employees soon barred from working at home

Anthony Tosie — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:08:38 +0000

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. Read more...

54% of companies ban social networking sites

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:15:49 +0000

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... Read more...

Steve Jobs back at Apple?

Sam Symons — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:03:20 +0000

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... Read more...

What it's like to work at a closing tech store: Circuit City

Brad Sams — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:10:28 +0000

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... Read more...

Massive continue work with Activision

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:45:55 +0000

In more Massive news, Activision have announced that they will continue their partnership with Massive Inc for a further 18 titles. If you've ever played "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock", or "Tony Hawk's Proving... Read more...

Work while you travel with Microsoft

Damien Reynolds — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:42:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:38:54 +0000

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... Read more...

Work Progressing on Army's Future Combat Systems

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:48:29 +0000

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... Read more...

MySpace Targeted as Time-Waster at Work

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:01:43 +0000

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%... Read more...

Microsoft wraps up work on Windows Home Server

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:37:39 +0000

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.... Read more...

Halo 2 Vista - How much work went into the in-game browser?

Todd Tanner — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:27:10 +0000

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... Read more...

ISPs don't work for the RIAA

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:02:25 +0000

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... Read more...

The (Few) Ways Vista Makes Office Work Better

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:04:01 +0000

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.... Read more...

Call of Duty 3 "Valor" Map Pack Doesn't Work

Todd Tanner — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:32:27 +0000

As many of you have discovered already, the newly released (for 800 Microsoft points no less) Valor map pack for Call of Duty 3 has 5 brand new maps for you to kill each other... Read more...

Windows Vista: More Work in Progress

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:46:00 +0000

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... Read more...

Intel to Work with Ericsson on Mobile Broadband

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:37:25 +0000

Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on applications for mobile computers that will increase their attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday. Ericsson said the joint effort... Read more...

Unlock Work Internet or Risk Losing Staff: Microsoft

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:44:32 +0000

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... Read more...

Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:25:24 +0000

Thanks Andareed for submitting this in Back page News on our forums. Do spam filters work? Which is the best one? How might filters be improved? Without standards, one must depend on unreliable evidence, such... Read more...

Apple Adds Mac At Work Section to US Site

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:27:47 +0000

Apple has quietly introduced a new "Mac at Work" section to its US website. The new zone is available through the navigation buttons at the top of the company's US website. It's UK website still... Read more...

Microsoft Halting Work on "Photoshop Killer"?

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:54:01 +0000

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,... Read more...

Mortal Kombat actors get film work

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:30:37 +0000

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... Read more...

Sims 2 Work Retail

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:56:01 +0000

Open for Business expansion is...open for business; add-on lets Sims trudge off to work, manage store, hire, and fire employees. With more than 58 million units moved, the... Read more...

NASA & Texas Tech Work on New Systems for Spacecraft

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:34:27 +0000

NASA has chosen Texas Tech University computer scientists to help develop software that will aid in the design and building of an abort system for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle. NASA engineers will work with... Read more...

Microsoft, Google to Work Together in New Lab Project

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:46:04 +0000

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... Read more...

Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:17:39 +0000

Redmond, Wash.--For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents... Read more...

Microsoft, Sun Update Their Technical Cooperation Work

Fri, 13 May 2005 22:14:30 +0000

Microsoft and Sun on Friday provided the second update of their yearlong technical cooperation work, with Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer summing up the progress by saying they've moved from the courtroom to the lab... Read more...

Torvalds: GPL Needs Minor Work

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:17:00 +0000

The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. Linus Torvalds, the creator... Read more...

Energy Dept. Funds Open-Source InfiniBand Work

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:12:46 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand... Read more...

McNealy: Microsoft integration work slow going

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:20:56 +0000

The integration of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems technology is progressing, but it is more complex than envisioned, according to Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive. The companies' integration project, headed by Microsoft's Bill... Read more...

Jobs back to work as Apple chief executive

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:38:59 +0000

Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs has quietly returned to work full time after taking a leave of absence to recover from cancer surgery. Jobs has been participating in high-level staff meetings over the past... Read more...

Microsoft: Core Longhorn work not outsourced

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:07:46 +0000

Microsoft has denied reports by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) that it's outsourcing core development to Indian contractors. Earlier this week the WashTech reported that Microsoft was planning on outsourcing the core... Read more...