Who are Germany´s best employers in 2007? 28. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot All German companies employing at least 50 staff are invited to take part in a new round of the »Great Place to Work« competition which honours »Germany´s best employers« and is organized each year by the Great Place to Work Institute Germany in co-operation with the psychonomics AG research institute. Application deadline is September 30th …
Open source experts sought for 28. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot The Heise Zeitschriften Verlag is sending a call for papers to all practical people and experts in the open source community. From today you can apply for giving a talk at the »Open Source Meets Business« convention. This convention of IT and business decision makers is organized by the Heise Zeitschriften publishing house for the …
New service explains abbreviations to professionals 28. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot Abbreviations are something quite confusing to readers. Often one thinks to know what they mean. But then again, if somebody asks more detailed questions on abbreviations, one is not that sure any more on what they stand for. For that reason abbreviations are disapproved-of in editorial texts. At least they are often used only after …
IT companies publish job offers mainly online 26. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot News aktuell (ots) reports: In May the »worldwidejobs.de IT job index« reached 177 points which is one point less than in the previous month. After a strong increase of job offers in April the IT job market currently seems to lose momentum. The number of vacancies published on the websites of the Top 500 IT …
New guide makes risk management easier for SMEs 26. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot Any company wants to seize the opportunities presenting themselves on their respective markets. However, there are no opportunities without risks! Risks cannot be avoided and are in general not something negative. Opportunities and risks just have to be well-balanced against each other, and risks threatening the very existence of a company have to be identified …
Notebooks equipped with WLAN module dangerously insecure 25. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot In small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) there is an ever increasing usage of notebooks equipped with a WLAN adapter which turns on automatically during Windows installation. The possessors of such notebooks are under the threat of air attacks! As was reported by the Pressetext news agency, the discovery of defective WLAN drivers is causing quite …
Changeover to Windows Vista only profitable from the year 2008 on 23. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot As is reported by Pressetext Deutschland the analysts of the Gartner Group market research and consulting company on the occasion of the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Paris recommended a gradual changeover to the new Windows Vista. A changeover in the course of a hardware change is said to be the most efficient approach.
Award ceremony of initiative to promote SMEs took place in Karlsruhe 23. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot IT solutions and services with a total value of almost 2.3 million Euros were made available this year by sponsors of the Förderinitiative Mittelstandsprogramm initiative which represents a sum unprecedented in the initiative´s history (we already reported on this). Each of the 210 main prizes is worth on average 8.500 Euros.
Franchise ranking provides orientation to business founders 23. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot The Impulse economic magazine in yesterday´s edition published a ranking of the 100 best franchise systems in Germany. McDonalds is on top of this ranking having scored 90 out of a maximum of 120 points. Second place went to pet food trader Fressnapf getting 88.5 points followed by the second Hamburger fast food chain Burger …
SMEs to benefit from improved reputation of temporary work 23. June 2006 by Thomas Jannot Something which is quite common on a European scale is also gaining ground in the German labour market: temporary works is meeting with increasing acceptance. Although its share of 1.4 percent in the German labour market is still relatively small as compared to other West European countries, it has grown by 10 percent to 9.1 …