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Determining how your company's processes stack up against those of your 'best-of-bred' competitors can bolster your bottom line. Jim Beckham has plenty of reasons to look forward to going to […]

ISDN power concerns contribute to copper pair shortages--and keep costs up. Several new products may offer relief--but currently are getting only limited play ISDN is the highest bandwidth connection available […]

WHEN A CONTINENTAL AIRLINES FLIGHT PULLS UP TO THE GATE, WHEELS GO INTO MOTION. YOU'LL SEE cleanup crews, ground:crews, flight crews, and airport personnel swing into action. Reservations are checked […]

J.B. HUNT TRANSPORT SERVICES JUST PURCHASED A hot rod. The Lowell, Ark., transportation company has set up a new ATM network to connect its IBM mainframes and client/server network to […]

Everyone knows the day is coming when NT will live up to its promise of mainframe-level computing, But when? Starting this month, Datamation's four-part series launches the greatest countdown in […]

Imagine racing a car across the vast continent of Australia without ever stopping for gas. That's exactly what the solar car teams do in the World Solar Challenge. Every two [...]

Imagine trying to effectively communicate with a person who lives in a foreign country. You speak different languages, use different forms of currency, and refer to commonplace items using different [...]

With new communications technologies on the rise, one could naturally assume more and more business meetings are being held via teleconference and videoconference; more presentations being given electronically, and thus [...]

A number of large infrastructure projects are due to be financed in Peru this year. But they will first have to overcome a number of hurdles. By Karen Schwartz For [...]

It's a question you hope you'll never have to answer: If you were fighting for your life, would you care what you wore? For Mackenzie Madsen Unga, 29, the answer [...]

In February 2015, Italian-born Federica Marchionni, the former head of Dolce & Gabbana USA and senior vice president of Ferrari, was named CEO of Lands' End. Her task: Amp up [...]

The Mexican government has ambitious plans for revamping the countryâs infrastructure. But first it must get the investment framework right By Karen SchwartzInvestors are watching Mexico closely â and with [...]

New management at Batistaâs firms â Eyzaguirre quits Canal 13 â Venezuelan central bank gets third governor of 2013 By Karen SchwartzAs financial problems intensified at Eike Batistaâs group of [...]

When my husband, Mike, died of lung cancer five years ago at age 36, I was a very sad widow. I cried a lot. I took to bed. But eventually, [...]

food into five main groups. The new pyramid replaced the long-standing, four-food-group pie chart that has been used to teach nutrition since the 1950s. Adoption of this pyramid came about [...]

READY FOR SOME MAJOR CAREER INSPIRATION? TAKE YOUR CUES FROM NEWLY APPOINTED WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY DEESHA DYER, WHO PARLAYED A WHITE HOUSE INTERNSHIP (AT AGE 31!) INTO ONE OF [...]

Truth time: Want to know what it's really like to ditch a traditional job to launch your own company? We asked Lauren Kay, founder of 'anti-Tinder' app Dating Ring (and [...]

With Teavana, Starbucks is throwing a different kind of tea party--hoping to make a big splash and brew up huge profits. Teavana president ANNIE YOUNG-SCRIVNER talks about the steep stakes [...]

In an era when nations were throwing off their political shackles, computer technology also embraced freedom. The breaking of proprietary bonds that dated back to the digital dawn brought chaos, […]

Agency heads perennially distribute rules and regulations to their employees, but it has become unacceptable to keep doing so in paper form. The Paperwork Reduction Act provided the original impetus […]

Airbnb turned renting out your spare room into a stratospherically successful (and controversial) $10 billion business. Head of global operations VARSHA RAO is flying high on the idea of empowering [...]