Skills gap "damaging" for UK businesses
UK businesses continue to face difficulties recruiting qualified IT staff, with one in five companies experiencing problems finding applicants with the right skills.
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Bank turns to India to plug IT skills gap
US bank Wells Fargo on Tuesday said it plans in the fourth quarter to open a technology facility in Hyderabad, India, citing a shortage of qualified technical talent in t...
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Orange closes UK call centre, recruits in India
Mobile phone operator Orange is reorganising its call centre operations in the UK, affecting up to 1,000 staff, while creating 300 new jobs at its Indian operation.
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Tony Blair pow-wows with who's who of Silicon Valley
Tony Blair has been in the US picking the brains of some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds.
And the UK Prime Minister was told that he must foster a risk-taking cult...
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BA CIO: Avert UK skills crisis now
The UK faces an IT skills crisis and will find it tougher to compete on a global level unless the government and businesses take action, British Airways' CIO has warned.
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CA brings in latest CFO
Software giant CA has announced the appointment of its latest CFO, Nancy Cooper - the fifth person to fill the role in just over two-and-a-half years.
A rapid turnarou...
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IT one of the 'most boring' jobs for graduates
Jobs in IT and telecoms are the fifth-most boring professions graduates can choose, according to research from a teacher training organisation.
Administration, secreta...
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IT gets a seat on the board
First the good news. Nearly four out of five companies have someone on the board who is responsible for IT - compared to three out of five just five years ago.
But now...
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Norwich Union axes 321 call centre jobs
Norwich Union is to axe 321 jobs as it closes its customer services centre in Liverpool.
The centre, which handles calls for Norwich Union Direct, is set to close by N...
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IT salaries on the up in the Far East
Companies in the IT and telecoms (IT&T) sector across Asia, particularly China and Singapore, expect to offer higher remuneration this quarter, according to a new report ...
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Macs flying off the shelves, says Apple
With a wider range of systems available, consumers have been snapping Macs up, giving them a growth boost that outpaced the rest of the market.
Macintosh shipments wer...
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Intel swings jobs axe on 1,000
Intel will begin cutting about 1,000 manager jobs worldwide this week as part of an effort to become more competitive.
Chief executive Paul Otellini told employees in ...
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Small firms want bigger say in IT plans
Smaller tech businesses want a bigger say on the European IT strategy coming out of Brussels.
In an open letter to the European Commission, six small business associat...
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Geeks' and offshore fears threaten software industry
The UK software industry is struggling to deal with the rise of offshoring, a 'geeky' image and the country's IT skills gap - but there's still hope.
To thrive, the in...
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Revealed: Best places for IT jobs in the UK
Two-thirds of all new IT jobs are created in London and the South East, even though the area only accounts for a quarter of the UK's population.
More than a third (38 ...
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10 top tips to keep PCs running through the heatwave
It's not just humans that are starting to suffer in the hot weather. Soaring temperatures are already creating an epidemic of frazzled hard drives and more PCs are likel...
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Vodafone IT chief is CIOs' CIO
Vodafone CIO Paul Wybrow has been voted the top private sector CIO in a poll of IT chiefs from FTSE 100 firms and IT suppliers.
Wybrow came top of the poll with 18 per...
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Apple in Jobs stock option probe
Apple said it has "discovered irregularities" related to the issuance of certain stock option grants made between 1997 and 2001, including one grant to CEO Steve Jobs.
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Microsoft cuts 200-plus sales jobs
Microsoft has said it is cutting about 200 jobs as part of a realignment of its US sales force.
The software maker is cutting 214 positions including telesales and mar...
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Barclays to axe 1,200 back-office jobs
Barclays is to axe 1,200 back-office and call centre jobs as part of a major shake-up aimed at turning around the fortunes of its UK retail banking business.
Most of t...
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Controversial telecoms overhaul: Watchdogs defanged?
Brussels is threatening a complete overhaul of the way the telecoms sector is controlled.
Viviane Reding, information society commissioner for the EC, announced in a s...
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Apple to show off next-gen big cat this summer
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, plus a team of executives, will open this year's Worldwide Developers Conference with a demonstration of Leopard, Apple's next-generation release of...
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Campaign on for training tax-breaks
IT training company The Training Camp has launched a campaign to increase government support for corporate training.
The 'Time to Train' campaign will lobby government...
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A third of CIOs want to change jobs
More than a third of IT directors are looking to change their job within the next 12 months, according to an exclusivesurvey.
The poll of 267 IT chiefs was conducted o...
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Nokia and Siemens merge units to fight Ericsson
Nokia and Siemens are to merge some operations to create a joint venture capable of taking on the likes of Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson.
The union is aimed at making bo...
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Powergen ditches offshore Indian call centres
Powergen is bringing its offshore call centre work back to the UK from India in an attempt to improve customer service and reduce the level of complaints.
The energy c...
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Creative opens new front in iPod patent war
The legal sparring between Apple and Creative has become even more heated, as the Zen maker announced it has lodged a complaint about the iPod-maker with the US Internati...
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The IT system to help the world love the UK
The British Council is replacing a "plethora" of systems as part of a ?27m IT infrastructure rollout in 110 countries.
The organisation, which aims to promote the UK a...
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Indian outsourcer brings jobs to Northern Ireland
In a twist on the usual story of UK jobs being sent overseas, Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) company ICICI OneSource is creating around 1,000 jobs over the nex...
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Update: Bulldog ditches home broadband market
Cable & Wireless has abandoned its goal of making Bulldog a major force in the retail broadband space.
Bulldog will not sign up any new broadband customers - instead, ...
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