IT infrastructure gets low billing from UK government
Investing in the IT infrastructure of the UK health service is not a priority, despite the cash boost of ?21bn the NHS received last week. In his Commons statement yester...
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PCA offers NT software to help free up pharmacists
Software specifically designed for pharmacies using Windows NT has been launched by Pro Choice Applications (PCA). The software, called Pharmacy, dispenses drugs, reorder...
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Herts launches smartcard scheme for job seekers
Hertfordshire County Council has launched a smart card scheme to encourage bus operators to offer discounts to unemployed youngsters.
The scheme is being piloted by bu...
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School Internet project proves a hit
SchoolNet 2000 - the UK's largest Internet education project to date - has attracted 7,000 schools since its conception in March.
The ?6m project is funded by Tesco an...
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NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed
NHS IT chief Richard Granger has earned more than ?1m in the four years since his appointment as director general of the ?7bn Connecting for Health project in 2002.
Gr...
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CIO Jury: Are IT chiefs underpaid?
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Microsoft brand worth more than GE and Coke
Microsoft has been named the most powerful global brand, beating out big non-tech names such as Coca-Cola, GE and Marlboro.
The software company tops a list of the top...
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888.com wavers on stock market debut
Online poker site 888.com has made a shaky debut on the London stock exchange on its first day of trading.
888.com priced its stock at 175p for its IPO, earning the co...
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Female IT managers topple men in pay league
Female IT managers are for the first time earning more than their male counterparts and women are also climbing the corporate ladder faster, according to the annual salar...
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Mobile games more valuable than porn
The market for mobile content is set to be worth $42.8bn by the end of the decade, with kids' content earning the operators billions more than adults'.
According to an...
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Software patent loopholes have grown, say campaigners
A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners.
Ame...
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Shocking state of IT customer support revealed
When it comes to online customer service, US tech companies only slightly outpace their counterparts in other industries and have plenty of room for improvement, accordin...
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Tesco IT boss earns ?1.8m payout
Tesco's global IT and operations director took home a pay cheque of almost ?1.8m last year on the back of huge performance-based bonuses.
Philip Clarke, international ...
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Mobile chips help Intel profits beat expectations
Mobile chip sales helped Intel surpass revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter, while the company said it will invest more money than expected in capital equ...
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Most complained about' company directors disqualified
Three company directors who were behind the UK's most complained about company have been disqualified for a total of 25 years.
At the height of its powers telesales bu...
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Smart phones send Symbian software sales soaring
Smart phone software maker Symbian has announced its third quarter results - with a 201 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of phones now carrying its OS.
Wit...
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PCG seeks donations for 'settlement' tax appeal
The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) issued a call last week for funds to help support a case which, it says, has huge tax implications for tens of thousands of IT co...
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Amazon teams with HBOS for credit card
Amazon.co.uk and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) have launched a co-branded credit card.
The Mastercard offering has a loyalty scheme which returns 1 per cent of the v...
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Mainframe pioneer Evans dies at 77
Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died on Thursday. He was 77.
Evans died of heart failure at his home in the S...
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India to get tough on foreign data security
Indian IT body Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) has announced it is to examine its 860 member companies' security as businesses looking t...
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No virus' Linux PCs break into supermarkets
France's number one supermarket chain, Carrefour, has launched a pilot project to sell PCs that come equipped with an OS not often sold by the retail big boys - Mandrake ...
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Irish bank chooses Sun and Linux
The Allied Irish Bank is migrating to the Linux desktop despite the relative immaturity of the platform
Sun has finally received the seal of approval it has been seeki...
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UK is scam haven, says Office of Fair Trading
Internet sites offering 'too good to be true' deals are alive and well, and happily doing business in Britain, according to the latest report from the Office of Fair Trad...
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Xerox PARC pioneer Pake dies
George Pake, the scientist who founded Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), died after a long illness last week, less than a month shy of his eightieth birthd...
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Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
An American man has been found guilty of typosquatting - using names based on popular web searches to trick people into visiting pornographic websites ? and sentenced to ...
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JD Edwards users happy with PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft is earning guarded praise from customers of its latest acquisition, former rival JD Edwards.
A survey IDC released Monday showed that more than 80 per cent ...
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Personalised websites are driving customers away
Companies trying to get personal with their website visitors in hopes of increasing sales are wasting more money than they're earning, warns an upcoming report.
The J...
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Librarians tell RIAA: Shhhhhhhh!
In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians.
The five major ...
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Does P2P still have the clout to kill iTunes?
With the virtual tills at iTunes' still ringing healthily and a host of download wannabes vying for their respective niche in the market, you'd be forgiven for thinking t...
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?2m card fraud IT man gets nine years
An IT worker who admitted downloading the details of credit cards used by passengers to buy tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link has been jailed today for nine...
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