Carayol calls for IT staff to brush up on business skills
IT professionals who want to reach the board of directors need to start taking commercial responsibility for their work. This was the message from Ren? Carayol, IT direct...
|
Vanco wins ?19.6m Euromaster outsourcing deal
Tyre company Euromaster has outsourced its entire corporate telecoms network to Vanco in a three-year deal worth ?19.6m.
It is Vanco's largest single deal to date and ...
|
Reed turns to Sirocom in ?17m virtual network deal
Sirocom has won a ?17m, three-year deal to supply converged voice and data networking to recruitment business Reed Managed Services.
The agreement follows a lengthy co...
|
Outsourcing remains high on CIO agenda
Outsourcing remains high on the CIO agenda but there is still a huge gulf between the predicted and actual cost savings, according to new research.
The survey of more ...
|
Sasser writer free to return to his job
The German 19-year-old who wrote the Sasser email virus, which caused havoc and huge financial damage to businesses worldwide last year, has escaped serious punishment.
...
|
Spies target techies with honey traps, warns MI5
IT staff travelling abroad are being targeted by foreign spies in an attempt to steal cutting-edge technologies and research, according to MI5.
MI5 warns that many cou...
|
UK customer data safe in India, says FSA
An investigation into the offshore operations of leading UK financial institutions claims consumer data is at no greater risk in India than in the UK.
Banking regulato...
|
Lib Dem manifesto hits out at ID cards
The Liberal Democrats have made opposition to Labour's controversial ID card project a central plank of their election manifesto.
Instead of introducing ID cards, a Li...
|
Bring crime fighting into the internet age
Criminals are using computers more than crowbars according to one parliamentary lobbying group which is demanding political parties in the UK amend the laws to reflect th...
|
Identity theft affecting one in four UK adults
A quarter of adults have been a victim identity theft or know someone who has been affected by it, an investigation by Which? magazine has found.
The research also dis...
|
Accenture bags ?306m BT deal
Accenture has won a ?306m business process outsourcing (BPO) deal to handle the HR administration services for BT.
The 10-year contract is an extension and expansion o...
|
Tech acquisitions return to "sensible" $134bn high
Merger and acquisitions (M&As) in the European technology sector have bounced back to a three-year high of $134bn following the dot-com crash in 2000.
The number o...
|
Danon leaves BT for Capgemini
Pierre Danon, BT Retail CEO, is to leave the UK telco and become COO at Capgemini early next year.
He will stay on at BT until that time and there has been no word on ...
|
High-tech crime hits police budgets
Police forces are facing a ?350m shortfall in budgets as chief police officers are struggling to juggle funds because of new responsibilities, such as fighting cybercrime...
|
Call for "smart" US ID cards
More effective identity cards are necessary to defend the US against terrorists, former US presidential advisor Richard Clarke said on Monday, during a speech at a confer...
|
Vendor spat: HP and Sun in 'lies!' dust-up
Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls "misleading and factually incorrect statem...
|
Firefox smashes 1 million download deadline
With days to spare, the Mozilla Foundation beat its 10-day goal of one million Firefox downloads.
Released six days ago, the first preview release of the Firefox 1.0 w...
|
Big Blue announces big grid projects
IBM has signed on five corporate customers and the Environmental Protection Agency to its ongoing grid-computing initiative, Big Blue has said.
The customers' projects...
|
Somerset Council shells out ?1.2m for new HR system
Somerset County Council is investing in the improvement of its human resources operations.
The authority, which has an estimated 20,000 employees, has signed a ?1.2m c...
|
ICL' back from the dead
...
|
Scots jump on board UK biometric ID card trial
The UK government's biometric ID card trial is gathering momentum with Glasgow the latest city to go live with iris, fingerprint and facial recognition testing.
The na...
|
Security and big projects to dominate IT Directors' Forum
Security and managing big projects look set to be the main issues for the cream of the UK's IT buying community on board the cruise ship Aurora for the annual IT Director...
|
Virus update: Sasser grounds BA as hype takes hold
...
|
Contractors sneaked in via the stationery cupboard
Companies have reportedly been getting around the issue of slashed recruitment budgets by hiring staff with money intended for stationery and other office 'essentials'.
...
|
Nortel and BT buddy up for collaboration
BT and Nortel have today announced a partnership to sell an enterprise software line that will converge businesses' voice and data on a single platform.
The MCS 5100 h...
|
MPs slam 'appalling' ?400m criminal-background vetting system
The ?400m PFI Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) for vetting staff who work with children and vulnerable adults was so "appallingly planned" that it went live despite concerns...
|
Search for IT spending chief begins
Headhunters have started the search to replace the influential Peter Gershon as CEO of the government's procurement watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). His ...
|
Offshoring: Is it all it's cracked up to be?
Arguments against offshoring have hit the headlines this week, with activists picketing a US conference on sending business abroad but this public outcry far from represe...
|
Parity app happy with BT and Microsoft
BT has signed a deal with Parity that will see almost 800 staff at the IT recruitment and services company able to access their desktop apps from anywhere with a connecti...
|
Any old Pentiums, any old Pentiums, any, any, any old Pentiums
Charitable organisation Computer Aid International has today announced that a campaign to refurbish and donate old Pentium PCs, launched last June, has already turned aro...
|
Latest press releases
