Telecommuting News
- TeamLeader(TM) Poised to Become Preferred Productivity Software for Top Tier Companies Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 12:48PMIn response to increasing managerial concerns related to employee productivity within dispersed teams, Virtual Global (www.virtualglobal.com) launches TeamLeader, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) designed to help managers cope with the 21st century management challenge: holding remote team members accountable.
- News (248) Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 10:46PMThe Queensland state government has kicked off one of Australia's largest email and identity management projects, in a move that will see up to 80,000 email accounts consolidated into one overarching Microsoft Exchange 2007 system by mid-2010.
- Epic's Capps: Unreal Engine 4 Due For 'Next Console Generation' Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 9:39AMSpeaking at Gamefest in Seattle, Epic's Mike Capps has been discussing Unreal Engine 4, suggesting the next version of the dominant game engine is in production and will debut "...in the next console generation - our rough guess is 2012 - 2018." Specifically, Epic president Capps - who introduced a Gamasutra-attended Gamefest panel that included notable Unreal Engine 3-using creators such as ...
- D3 Promotes Takenaka To President, CEO Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 10:23AMD3Publisher, a subsidiary of D3, Inc., has announced the promotion of its current executive vice president and COO, Yoji Takenaka, to president and CEO of D3P America and Europe, granting him the responsibility of directing all operations in those regions. The developer and publisher has also appointed Hidetaka Tachibana, who joined the company in 2004, as its CFO in North America. Previous to ...
- To Expand Your Business, Go Home Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 11:31AMPlenty of Web entrepreneurs start their ventures at home and move into commercial spaces only when they expand. Unity Stoakes and Steven H. Krein did it backwards.
- Majesco Makes First Move To Facebook With Bananagrams Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 9:39AMPublisher Majesco has announced that it is making its first foray onto the Facebook platform with the forthcoming conversion of anagram game Bananagrams, to be developed by Rocketbowl and Snapshot Adventures studio Large Animal Games and due for an August release. The move onto Facebook is the second expansion for the publisher away from its recent traditional focus on the Wii and DS, ...
- Companies Offer Gas-Saving Benefits To Their Employees Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 8:19PMAmericans spend more than 100 hours a year commuting to work. Couple that time on the road with high fuel costs, and you can see why employees are pushing for...
- Casual DS Titles Push Ubisoft Q1 Sales Up 26% Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 11:23AMUbisoft has released the results of its first quarter, showing sales up nearly 26 percent to € 169 million ($263.7 million), on strong sales of its casual titles like MyWeightLossCoach for DS, as it delays its next Splinter Cell title to 2009. Ubisoft's sales came in above its guidance of € 154 million as sales in its 'Games For Everyone' casual brand saw healthy growth at 33 percent of ...
- Casual Connect: Hawkins Defines The Omni Media Gamer Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 9:38AMDelivering a keynote titled "The Supercasual Social Revolution" at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, Digital Chocolate CEO and Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins predicted the rise of the Online Media Gamer (OMG), consumers who ignore graphics but are attracted to online games because of accessibility, portability, and social features. Consumer Acceptance Of Technology Hawkins began ...
- More News Thursday, July 24, 2008 @ 9:08PMThen, CEO David Cornblatt figured that his company did not really need a brick-and-mortar office. Each employee, including himself, now works from home, saving employees a total of 50,000 commuting miles annually and his company about $250,000 in lease payments, utilities and other costs.
