DOUGLAS COUNTY – TeleTech Holdings Inc., a Douglas County-based call center company, announced plans to expand its number of employees working from home.
The company, which will roll out the service globally next year, has already started recruiting workers in Colorado, Nevada and other states. Several Fortune 500 companies have signed on as customers, the company said in a statement.
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PHOENIX
Immigrant-rights group sues Arizona
An immigrant-rights group sued Arizona on Wednesday, saying the lives and property of innocent people are unfairly snared by a state program intended to combat migrant and drug smuggling by intercepting money transfers.
The suit filed by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights said the warrants authorizing the interceptions are too broad and snare innocent people in violation of constitutional protections on search and seizure. Douglas County-based Western Union has already gone to court separately to fight aspects of the program run by the Arizona attorney general.
BENTONVILLE, Ark.
Wal-Mart slashes prices on toys, games
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, reduced prices on more than 100 types of toys to boost business before and during the holiday season.
Some board games were reduced by as much as 46 percent to $8 while a miniature version of a Cadillac Escalade was dropped 11 percent to $249, the Bentonville, Ark.-based company said Wednesday in a statement.
STAMFORD, Conn.
HP reclaims title of biggest PC maker
Hewlett-Packard Co. reclaimed the title of world’s biggest personal-computer maker after trailing Dell Inc. for three years.
Hewlett-Packard’s share of the worldwide market increased 1.2 percentage points to 16.3 percent last quarter. Dell slipped to 16.1 percent, recording its slowest growth ever, Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. said in an e-mailed statement.
DULLES, Va.
AOL closing call centers in N.M., Ariz.
AOL announced Wednesday that it will lay off 1,300 employees by closing call centers in New Mexico and Arizona as part of a previously announced restructuring plan.
AOL, the Time Warner Inc. online unit formerly known as America Online, also plans to sell its call center in Ogden, Utah. The cuts include 900 layoffs at the Albuquerque call center and 400 jobs at the center in Tucson.
CUPERTINO, Calif.
Some iPods spreading worms to computers
For more than a month, some iPod music players have spread a computer worm to Windows computers and external drives connected to those computers, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from hackers.
The worm, which has been traced to a Windows computer used to test iPod software during manufacturing, affected less than 1 percent of the devices available for purchase after Sept. 12, said Greg Joswiak, Apple Computer Inc’s vice president of iPod product marketing. It affected only computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
REDMOND, Wash.
Microsoft updating Internet Explorer
Microsoft Corp. is giving its Web browser software its first major upgrade in years, amid signs that Internet Explorer’s market share is eroding.
Internet Explorer 7, or IE7, adds features such as tabbed browsing, which lets people open several Web pages without cluttering their desktop with multiple open browser windows.
NEW YORK
Jury upholds verdicts for WTC developer
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld jury verdicts requiring insurance companies to pay developer Larry Silverstein $4.6 billion to rebuild the World Trade Center complex but preventing him from getting the $7 billion he had sought.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it found no error that requires it to set aside jury decisions over insurance payouts on the trade center, which was destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.
SEATTLE
Boeing lengthening jet to add more seats
Boeing Co. is lengthening the passenger version of its new 747 widebody jet so airlines can squeeze in about 17 extra seats, a move that will bring the new plane a tad closer to the seating capacity of rival Airbus’ A380.
WASHINGTON
FDA ruling favors bottled-water claim
Companies can claim that drinking bottled water with fluoride prevents cavities, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
