Archive - 31 Oct 2005
ID card costs could hit £30bn
Nearly £500 to produce each card, according to new LSE figures
Get ready now for MiFID, banks warned
Start work or prepare to hand out blank cheques later…
NB: Boozed up online buys
More boozy Brits are using the net for impulse buys. According to a news report on
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NB: Lords debate ID cards
Who says the crusty old peers in the House of Lords are out of touch? We're just watching the ID car...
Symantec: 'No end in sight for acquisitions'
No plans to get into identity management but more mega-deals on the horizon
NB: Olswang column
Not sure whether to outsource, multi-source or keep your IT operations in-house? Simon Briskman from...
NB: Life squared
silicon.com has been taking a look around Microsoft's Life² business and consumer technology showcas...
Health trust online auctions to save £4.5m
IT vendors bid for business...
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
There's no 'one size fits all' approach for outsourcing
Qualcomm: We are not chipset bad guys
EC complaint "factually inaccurate and legally meritless"
Body scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
Airport-style security checks to be tested at UK railway stations…
NB: Symantec
Here's a good quote from a meeting one team member had with Enrique Salem from Symantec. Salem recou...
NB: Body-scanners
The introduction of bomb-detecting body-scanners at Tube stations was mooted after the London terror...
CIO Jury: "Love" your top IT staff or lose them
But the 'war for talent' is over-exaggerated, say IT bosses...
NB: Google
Has anybody been having problems with Google Mail since the UK version switched from Gmail? It seems...
NB: Telefonica buys O2
After much speculation, Telefonica has been named as the buyer of O2. More on this soon. It'll leave...
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NB: MS South Korea
Microsoft is getting pretty uppity about its antitrust wranglings in South Korea. Reuters <...
NB: Qualcomm hits back
After we all left for the weekend Qualcomm returned fire against the six big mobile equipment compan...
AIM worm exhibits new, nasty tactics
Reveals "disturbing trend"...
Vodafone heads to India - again
£820m Bharti stake mirrors inroads into China
Sex.com hijacker arrested after four years on the run
Caught while living the high life in Mexico...