Stories about: McDonald's

Someday soon, you might find yourself behind the steering wheel of your car and you'll want to dial your phone, find out where the nearest Starbucks is, change the music you are listening to and adjust your heat or air conditioning. And you will be able to do all of this with nothing but the power of your own voice.

We all know the saying about the weakest link and recognize its inherent truth. In the great chain of technology that is our broadband service, we seldom think of our state-of-the-art routers as being that link, but perhaps we should.

Security and quality assurance experts reacted negatively to Apple Computer's efforts Tuesday to blame manufacturing problems that resulted in iPod MP3 players shipping with a virus that affects Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Here are lessons testers have turned into tips for ensuring you make ultrasmart buying decisions.

Telstra has signed an international roaming agreement with mobility provider iPass to keep the latter's customers in touch when they're travelling 'Down Under'.

Linux may be struggling to gain a foothold in the primary and secondary education market but one Sydney school is setting itself higher grades - all without Microsoft.

As part of its e-People strategy, McDonalds Restaurant is rolling out an online recruitment and staff induction platform to 730 retail food outlets across Australia.

Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy recently met with several groups, including leading IT practitioners in large and midmarket enterprises; progressive executives in federal, state and local government agencies; hiring managers at vendors; senior executives at IT service firms; deans of major business schools; presidents of community colleges; and strategic planners at staffing firms. The purpose: to ask about assumptions in their organizations that need to be exfoliated.

Much has been written and said about the latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman.

I have a fantasy that goes like this: I'm downloading some software from a vendor's Web site, and I'm presented with a screen with many lines of tiny type followed by two boxes. One says "I accept," and the other says "I do not accept." I'm feeling lucky -- or maybe just cantankerous -- so I click the "I do not accept" box. The download comes to an abrupt end.

A seat on a board of directors is one of corporate life's marks of distinction. In the tight-knit world of senior executives, boards function as both serious governing bodies and can-you-top-this status symbols, and either way, inclusion is a notable achievement.