Yahoo! CEO joins the $1-salary club
Yahoo! chief executive Terry Semel, the highest compensated executive in the San Francisco Bay Area last year at more than $56.8m, will receive an annual salary of $1 thr...
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Barclays in ?75m outsourcing extension with Xansa
Barclays has extended an outsourcing joint venture with IT services company Xansa in a five-year deal worth at least ?75m.
Barclays and Xansa formed the joint venture ...
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Sun to slash 4,000 jobs
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday announced plans to cut up to 13 per cent of its workforce, in its first major restructuring effort under new CEO Jonathan Schwartz.
The s...
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Lenovo puts profits on the back burner
Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC maker, said profit growth will not be a priority this year and that it is ready to cut prices to keep up with rivals, as it focuses o...
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Companies fight EU move to regulate web
Businesses are opposing EU proposals to regulate the use of audio-visual content on the internet because they say it will drive money and jobs out of Europe.
Seven org...
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Vodafone lifts lid on new products, SFR, Verizon
Vodafone's CEO Arun Sarin has today given the rumour mill another spin, confirming the company's latest thoughts on French mobile operator SFR, Verizon Wireless and buyin...
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Internet tops newspaper ad spending
Advertisers are set to spend more on internet ads this year than on national newspaper ads, as the web becomes the third largest channel for advertising, research suggest...
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Serco to cut 170 jobs
IT services company Serco is cutting around 170 jobs as part of a company-wide restructuring plan.
The job cuts come despite Serco boosting revenues by 38 per cent to ...
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Apple plugs Nike-Nano hook-up
Your Nikes can now talk to your iPod.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Nike CEO Mark Parker on Tuesday unveiled new products that connect the Nike+ Air Zoom Moire - a new runn...
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Who's in charge of government IT?
As the dust settles on Prime Minister Tony Blair's major cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, it is finally becoming clear which ministers will have responsibility for I...
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2,700 people wrongly tagged as criminals
The government has admitted that 2,700 people have been wrongly labelled criminals following errors at the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB).
The blunder was uncovered by ...
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Skills Survey 2006: Thumbs-up for in-sourcing
When outsourced IT projects don't live up to expectations, what's the best course of action?
We continue to see headlines of companies 'in-sourcing' - bringing outsour...
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European IT investment 'lacks ambition
European countries must come up with more ambitious plans to exploit IT - including more use of broadband - if they are to close the economic growth gap on the US.
In ...
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Girls' computer club gives tech a facelift
Denise Grady began running her lunchtime girls computer club at Holy Spirit Primary School in Runcorn back in January and she's proud of the success she's had already.
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Skills Survey 2006: IT pros fear offshoring, CIOs don't
Though no job in the enterprise is safe from being offshored nowadays, the top of the IT department feels the most secure while the rank-and-file IT workers are the most ...
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Wipro: India will increase its share of the R&D pie
Fuelled by a steady stream of engineers emerging from its schools, India will continue to increase its share of the research and development services market, according to...
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Boots to in-source 100 IT jobs back from IBM
Boots is set to bring 100 IT jobs back in-house after renegotiating its ?710m outsourcing contract with IBM.
The high street chemist initially signed the 10-year deal ...
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Sony surrenders to Apple music format
Sony is moving to make its music management software compatible with Apple's audio file format in the latest evidence of Steve Jobs' dominance in digital music.
The be...
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NTL cuts 35 per cent of staff, talks up future
NTL has today confirmed that 6,000 jobs will be cut from its 17,000-strong payroll as the cable company seeks to find ?250m of cost savings before the end of 2007.
Som...
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NTL 'to axe up to 6,000 jobs
NTL is set to announce that up to one in three of its staff will lose their jobs as a result of the $6bn merger with Telewest.
The final figure is likely to be reveale...
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Orange to slash up to 2,000 jobs
Up to 2,000 Orange UK workers could lose their jobs in a major shake-up announced yesterday by parent company France Telecom.
As part of what France Telecom calls its ...
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Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor
Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for failing to save the Home Computing Initiative (HCI).
The HCI allowed companies to loan PCs to staff as a tax...
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Egg moves 120 jobs around the City
Egg, the internet bank, is closing its London offices as part of a cost-cutting exercise that will see 120 jobs moved around the capital.
The move is part of a wider c...
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Techies wanted for 007 jobs
MI6, the intelligence agency for overseas operations, is looking to recruit IT and technology experts to gather data and spy on computers in other countries.
An advert...
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Pearl completes ?486m BPO deal with TCS
The Pearl life assurance group has completed a ?486m business process outsourcing (BPO) deal with the UK subsidiary of India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The 12-...
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Jobs set to win iTunes pricing battle
Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have taken the upper hand over the music industry in the battle to decide the price of music downloads.
According to a report in the Ne...
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Deutsche Bank in Indian outsourcing talks with TCS
Deutsche Bank is in contract talks with Indian IT company TCS about a major deal to outsource some of its business processes offshore.
Reports in India suggested the v...
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CIO Jury: Is industry experience vital for IT chiefs?
A third of IT bosses say it is still difficult to move across vertical market sectors without the relevant industry experience despite CIO skills becoming increasingly tr...
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Broadband and mobile not your right, says EU
The EU has declared that mobile and broadband access is not to become a given for all citizens.
The Union announced the universal service obligation that currently cov...
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Council websites see traffic hike
Interest in local council websites is rocketing, even before a government campaign to improve take-up launches later this year.
Visitors to council websites increased ...
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