Stories about: Mattel

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Watch out, computer engineers: Barbie wants your job 13 February, 2010 10:24

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce the newest member of our IT department: Computer Engineer Barbie. She's hip, stylish, and a real whiz when it comes to fixing faulty motherboards.
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How data security can vaporise in the cloud 15 October, 2009 22:29

While hosted cloud computing may be all the rage for reducing cost of ownership and management, IT managers say hosted storage services present dramatic security challenges and legal implications that need to be considered.
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Could your Web surfing be greener? 03 December, 2008 09:06

Is there a greener way to surf the Web?
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Mattel's 20 million global toy recall tests IT mettle 10 September, 2007 08:41

Mattel, the £2.8 billion (AU$6.9 billion) toy company, last week put its IT and supply chain systems under pressure again when it issued its third product recall, this time of 848,000 Barbie accessories and Fisher-Price toddler toys that could contain lead paint.
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CIOs on the move 03 September, 2006 15:00

When Joe Eckroth moved from the top tech spot at toy maker Mattel to the CIO post at New Century Financial a year ago, he wanted to play fair with his new employees from the start. He was open about his game plan with staffers, some of whom were unsettled by the change in leadership. But Eckroth didn't let his concern for them stop him from pushing his agenda forward. He honestly stated his belief in outsourcing, for example, even though he knew it might further disturb some employees.
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Amazon launches new toy, baby stores 07 July, 2006 07:54

Amazon.com has launched new toy and baby stores that feature tens of thousands of products, including hard-to-find items from specialty retailers.
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The fine art of saying 'no' 27 April, 2005 16:18

Fred Held was CIO at Mattel Toys Inc. for most of the 1970s. He recalls the day a gung-ho marketing executive, apparently having just read Popular Science, asked, "Can we put a chip in every product, hook up to spy satellites and track where everyone goes, so we can really see who buys our toys? We could check which stores have too much inventory and transfer product accordingly."
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The rush to RFID 15 April, 2004 14:56

In an airport at Frankfurt, Germany, a maintenance worker crawls through the cramped ventilation system, wearing a small device that reads data from chips positioned throughout the system to verify that he's done his job. At a U.S. theme park, a teenager on a waterslide wears a special wristband with an embedded chip that will remember how many rides he has taken, no matter how wet he gets. And at a large drug company's warehouse, a shipment of the regulated narcotic OxyContin gets tagged with chips to track its route, and discourage theft and counterfeiting.
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Capellas: IT workers will dominate boardroom 27 September, 2002 08:00

Tech-savvy leaders that can deal with customers and their company's IT infrastructure will replace the sales and marketing types that dominate executive ranks today, according to Michael Capellas, president of Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Tech Pacific puts on the entertainment 06 October, 2000 12:01

Having recently created a new Entertainment business unit to deal with its interactive computer games category, Tech Pacific has appointed Jeremy Hilton as the division's business manager.
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Mattel Wins Case Against Cybersquatter 22 July, 2000 12:01

A court this month invokedrecent legislation protecting companies from cybersquatters when it ordered a pornographic Web site to stop using Mattel's trademark "Barbie" as part of its domain name.