Employment Wages

Apple has been conducting research on a new breed of display hardware that would employ autostereoscopy to produce three-dimensional images that can be viewed by multiple users without the need for special headgear or glasses.

Worried your employer might cut your position in a downturn? Here are 8 tips to help you avoid the ax, and how to keep your career afloat if you don’t.

White men could be legally blocked from jobs or promotions under controversial government plans to help women and black employees achieve equality.Employers would be allowed to give jobs to qualified minority candidates in preference to other candidates under a change in discrimination law being drawn up by the Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman

Putting a time stamp on someone’s life,…is something that few doctors are willing to do. Instead, they employ much more methodical and caring techniques of breaking the news to terminally ill patients…."Shock or denial is a pretty universal first reaction. Patients say ‘it’s not me’ or ‘I’ll go to a different doctor.’"

A simple article on how to communicate effectively with non tech-savvy clients/employers. Written for web developers, but applicable to many other fields.

What qualifies something as geek graffiti? In some cases it is the content but in many instances it is the methods employed in its creation. Here are seven more geek graffiti projects that comment on and employ tools of the digital age to reinterpret traditional street art approaches or convey contemporary messages via new media.

In a job interview, Sandy Gould’s avatar showed up in a Superman costume. As we talked about my strengths and weaknesses, crabs skittered along the sand at our feet. Mr. Gould and I were at computers on opposite sides of the same room and meeting in Second Life, the Web-based virtual world that is owned and operated by his employer, Linden Lab.

Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs. This year’s closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.

Those of you who know the joys of working from home, whether you’re self-employed or freelancing or telecommuting, know also the joys of procrastination and the lures of laying on the couch. Now, I’m as much in favor of a good nap as the next guy, but a nap should be a break, not your default work mode….

Taiwanese smartphone kingpin HTC is seeing a rather unexpected customer backlash over sub-par video playback in recent devices employing Qualcomm’s MSM7xxx chipsets — apparently, handsets like the popular TyTN II and Touch Cruise were purposely shipped without drivers that would take advantage of the embedded ATI Imageon acceleration hardware.

Policing pot in Colorado is about to get a lot more complicated. The kick-in-the-door raids SWAT teams have long employed could now cost cities hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You might know that Victoria’s Secret employs the most smokin’ models, but here are 5 other things Victoria’s been keeping a secret from you…

Misconceptions about open source software have made many U.S. Defense Department sectors reluctant to employ this technology. Although a 2003 department policy allows its use.

Employing public signage in the pursuit of suspects is probably about as old as criminology itself, so it’s no surprise to see the FBI leveraging the latest technology to erect some of the largest, most versatile wanted posters in history.

The watchdog for Canada’s federal police force, the RCMP, is calling for the force to restrict its use of Tasers, saying the stun guns are increasingly employed to subdue those who are resistant rather than those who pose a threat.

The Texas Education Agency’s Director of Science is forced out over a lack of neutrality over the issue of teaching evolution in schools, while a creationist sues his former employer after losing his job as an evolutionary biologist.

Back in the early days of disc-based gaming, companies weren’t afraid of sticking a "Now Loading" screen in your face every two minutes. Now, companies employ stupid tricks to avoid them. Here’s the worst ones

When you’re trying to find someone online, Google’s not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene which offer better ways to pinpoint people info by name, handle, location, or place of employment.

Lowly stock clerk is hit by 18-wheeler on her day off. Brain-damaged and in a nursing home, stock clerk’s family sue the trucking company and is awarded $800K (net about $450K). Walmart now says it’s their money under the terms of the employment agreement!

Good news for PS3 owners and fans of the Final Fantasy series. In a recent interview conducted with Tetsuya Nomura regarding Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy XIII, the video game director employed by Square Enix had a lot to say.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved to kill an amendment that would protect employers from federal lawsuits for requiring their workers to speak English. Among the employers targeted by such lawsuits: the Salvation Army.

Facebook employees can see your profile even if it is private. Now we hear that Facebook is willing to share your private profile with your boss. All he has to do is ask.

Creative Commons - the ins and outs

From Microsoft: “We can confirm that Stuart Scott’s employment with Microsoft was terminated after an investigation for violation of company policies.” Does that mean he stole office supplies or something?

It’s simple: Employ these scientific strategies now and add years of good living to your future.

Google is no longer just a search engine. With your potential customers, future employers, and members of the media turning to Google for information about your business, Google has become a reputation engine.

White House press secretary Dana Perino assured reporters today that the staged news conference organized on Tuesday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would not happen again, and said the White House would never employ such tactics at its own press briefings.

Kids are learning that what they post on social networks could come back to haunt them. But now it’s haunting their parents as well. What kids post about their parents on social networks (like, "Not only do I have to live with my nagging mom, my dad does drugs.") is being discovered by their employers, police, etc.

A recently published memo reveals the arrogance Bush employs toward diplomacy.

One of the worst off? Federal employees and their amazing benefits. Washington employs nearly 2 million people, not including the military, making it the country’s largest employer. After Sept. 11, 2001, it expanded significantly due to homeland security needs. But those days may be coming to an end….

The four key areas where the military is placing its bets: hypersonic vehicles, laser technology, using information technology and neuroscience to combine human and machine on the battlefield, and employing sociology and psychobiology to combat terrorism. A good (virtual) idea? Maybe, but maybe not. Have a look…

In this interview, legal expert David Cole says, "The Bush administration has adopted a particular approach to fighting terrorism, something it calls the ‘preventive paradigm.’ This paradigm seeks to employ the most coercive measures that a state has against people, not because of what they have done but because of what they might do."

A growing trend with employers is to not hire smokers or employees with unhealthy lifestyles. Some companies are now charging $50 per paycheck if employees smoke. Some companies don’t assess fines, they just simply fire the smoker or obese employee. So far the courts are ruling in favor of companies. Employees are trying to fight back.

1up is reporting that in their play-through with MGS4 that the controller shook in separate places. We did enjoy the various rumble effects employed by the new Dual Shock 3 controller, though: As explosions rattled around Snake, we could actually feel the direction from which they were coming based on what part of the controller vibrated.

A South Carolina inmate notorious for filing frivolous and fanciful lawsuits against public figures has used his latest complaint to accuse Apple chief executive Steve Jobs of employing O.J. Simpson as a "hitman" for the past two decades, in addition a litany of other outlandish offenses.

For Microsoft Xbox 360 owners, Tuesday is Opening Day - the time to skip school, call in sick or take a vacation day for the big game.

The cost of health insurance in the United States climbed nearly twice as fast as wages in the first half of 2007, with family coverage costing employers around 1,000 dollars (714 euros) a month, a poll showed Wednesday.

In his first interview since declaring his presidential candidacy, Fred Thompson repeatedly warned against the perils of a "weak and divided" nation, raised the specter of unspecified terrorists with suitcase bombs, and expressed a willingness to employ nuclear weapons against Iran.

The attack, which is one of the first of its kind to employ extremely complex, multi-stage attack methods, performs a distributed and covert brute force attack on eBay accounts in an effort to obtain personal information and/or items sold/purchased via the eBay site.

The California legislature has just made sure that employers cannot require their employees to have subcutaneous RFID implements (and you thought your workplace was strict). Supracutaneous RFID trackers, though, are still fair game.

IT’S Labor Day weekend, so let’s talk about labor. Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in work like governing, manufacturing, health care providing, retailing and researching. This gigantic army of laborers, argues Robert B. Reich, has morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than Citizens.

The Post-it Note, a small square with re-adhearable adhesive on the back, was one such answer. The three-inch bright yellow square was employed as a reminder, a note, or for organization… But some don’t see it as only a productivity tool… they see it as a medium for colorful art.

Tackling a dilemma right out of a science fiction novel, the state Senate passed legislation Thursday that would bar employers from requiring workers to have identification devices implanted below their skin.

Last night Jon took President Bush to task for the disgusting distortion of history he employed Wednesday to justify his endless war in Iraq. Little does Bush know (not surprising), we keep the tapes from earlier in his presidency where he dismissed outright the Iraq-Vietnam comparison. The shameless propaganda knows no limits.

A new ’super-weapon’ being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.

An "anti-piracy" program recently and have announced its first "win." An analyst firm has agreed to pay up a $300,000 settlement after an "insider" informed the SIIA that the firm passed around news clips to employees. This is very typical. Many companies employ news clipping services and receive copies of relevant news articles.

The American Psychological Association, the world’s largest professional organization of psychologists, is poised to issue a formal condemnation of a raft of notorious interrogation tactics employed by U.S. authorities against detainees during the so-called war on terror, from simulated drowning to sensory deprivation.

With health-care costs rising, some large employers are taking radical new steps to cut corners: They’re charging overweight employees a fee if they don’t slim down.

They operate with little or no supervision, accountable only to the firms employing them. And as the country has plummeted toward anarchy and civil war, this private army has been accused of indiscriminately firing at American and Iraqi troops, and of shooting to death an unknown number of Iraqi citizens. Not one has faced charges or prosecution.

A federal judge granted the record labels a big victory in a file-sharing fishing expedition, approving the RIAA’s request to subpoena the defendant’s employer, wife, and brother. In a ruling issued late last month, Judge P. Kevin Castel also ordered defendant Yuri Shutovsky to provide the names and addresses of every person who had used his PC.