Stories about: Dow Chemical

In case you missed it there was an extremely comprehensive post on the Oil Drum site the other week about teleworking.

Regulatory compliance will be the top business and technology issue facing IT managers and executives worldwide in the next 12 to 18 months, with a major emphasis on protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and transaction monitoring.

The SAS Institute has updated its products for data mining and forecasting.

Chemical manufacturers must operate a serious network of plumbing: pipes, ducts and valves to process, produce and transport millions of gallons -- and billions of dollars -- of valuable product.

Hankscraft has been making industrial motors and mechanized pumps for more than 50 years in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The company came to China just three years ago but already has twice as many employees here as it has at home.

Sneezing and headaches are starting to mean something to many employers.

The Dow Chemical Co. has awarded IBM a seven-year outsourcing contract to manage its IT infrastructure and to implement an Internet telephony system based on VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, the companies announced jointly in a press release on Monday.

The phone rang one Saturday afternoon, and over the line came the kindly voice of a woman from MasterCard's fraud-detection unit. Was I aware that my card was currently making the rounds? "What kind of charges?" I asked, listening as she read off the itinerary of my credit card as it visited an overpriced hair salon, a pharmacy, a shoe store and a restaurant.

Pop-culture experts say the nostalgia cycle is growing shorter and shorter -- that someday we may all yearn for those lazy, hazy, carefree days of six weeks ago. So it doesn't seem out of line to look back with amusement at 2000. Back then, James Glassman and Kevin Hassett's Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (Three Rivers Press, 2000) was selling briskly, and experts were predicting that enterprises were set to junk a hundred years' worth of purchasing practices and instead buy everything -- from manila envelopes to sheet steel -- through online exchanges, or e-marketplaces.

Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application and instead will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings.

Four years ago, ABM Industries, a US$1.8 billion building services company, decided to switch from a solid, dependable, managed frame relay network to DSL connections from a variety of service providers. The goal was to lower the cost of linking branch offices to corporate headquarters.