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Work-for-free techies help save British Airways £2m

BA CIO on how IT cutbacks will help the airline survive

Has in-flight entertainment got wings in the iPod era?
Or should it be grounded for good?

Tags: media player, airlines, ipod, mobile

Take a trip to the future of air travel
"Let me get that for you..."

Tags: mobile phone, air, flight, check

More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
For friends' eyes only

Tags: facebook, security, post, controls

Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
Stories of the month - June 2009

Tags: iphone, india, iplayer, bt

Online advertisers pledge to tell us what they're after
And let you say 'no' to data collection

Tags: advert, online, children, principles

ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
Time to kill scheme once and for all?

Tags: id cards, trial, manchester, government

British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
No text please, we're British

Tags: willie walsh, british airways, text, mobile

Q: What's one broadcaster's most important IT investment in years?
Clue: Know thyself...

Tags: business intelligence, cnn

CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
The latest news from the senior IT job merry-go-round...

Tags: tfl, talktalk, it director, hmrc

PayPal techies hit fraudsters where it hurts
Here comes the Fraud Sciences bit, concentrate...

Tags: security, two factor authentication, paypal, verisign

O2 gets into bed with BT wi-fi
In the Openzone

Tags: bt, o2, openzone, wi-fi

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Tags: silicon.com, opinion, discussions, panel

BSkyB threatens legal action over Ofcom rate-lowering plans
"We deserve a fair return"

Tags: ofcom, bskyb, findings, unprecedented

Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
BBC gives Worthy Farm an online remix

Tags: glastonbury, twitter, music, bbc

Woolies opens its online doors
Forget pick 'n' mix, get click 'n' mix

Tags: online, woolworths, store, shop

Contactless payments hamstrung by battle for hearts and minds
Wave and pay turning into chicken and egg

Tags: contactless payment, consumers, benefits, retailers

Game, set, match for IBM Android app
Wimbledon's all a-Twitter

Tags: android, ibm, twitter, court

Google gets a new vision when it comes to pictures
Doing to images what it does to words

Tags: google, image, picture, recognition

Retailers ready for great outsourcing thaw
Capexcited

Tags: retail, costs, capex, datamonitor

Coming soon: Ads that know if you're male or female
Next step: Old age...

Tags: ad, recognition, detect, display

Diageo drinks to $35m outsourcing deals
CSC gets the nod

Tags: csc, supply chain, diageo, outsourcing

BAA on IT offshoring, T5 opening and selling Gatwick
How it kept its IT in the air

Tags: baa, gatwick, terminal 5, offshoring

Crunch-bitten shoppers losing the will to click
Hitting knickers but shoes plod on

Tags: web, click, shopping, index

Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
Get Carter

Tags: digital britain, broadband, underground, central london

Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
It's a Classic

Tags: contactless, barclaycard, classic, gold

Virgin file-sharers risking suspension
All-you-can-eat vs doing a runner from the restaurant

Tags: virgin, music, file sharer, universal

Salesforce.com has cloud in its Sites
Feeling the Force.com presence

Tags: salesforce.com, hosting, platform, websites

Business intelligence has downturn upturn
Riding the BI-cycle...

Tags: gartner, revenues, recession, economy

Dell tweets its way to $3m in sales
Twitter clickers bringing in the cash

Tags: twitter, dell, quarter, money

BT calls for end of 'free ride' for BBC's iPlayer
…and admits "throttling" video traffic

Tags: bbc, video, iplayer, bt

Get your Facebook vanity URL this weekend
Facebook.com/mememe

Tags: facebook, url, social network, search

Airwave eyeing Olympic network legacy
Fun and Games

Tags: olympics, radio, airwave, events

Knickers dropping as recession hits web retail
But whopping £200bn spent online since 2000...

Tags: e-tail, e-retail, online shopping, capgemini

$99 iPhone announced at Apple's WWDC
…and make way for new iPhone 3G S, Snow Leopard and Mac refresh

Tags: apple, iphone, 3g s, mac

Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
Update: Another oxymoron?

Tags: business intelligence, sas, events, analytics

Start-ups ditched as companies fight the crunch
Big guns clear out their closets

Tags: start ups, internet, crunch, acquisitions

Carphone Warehouse to split into two by next year
TalkTalk takes a walkwalk

Tags: carphone warehouse, wholesale, retail, broadband

Delays hit Canvas as Trust needs more info
More questions for BBC, ITV and BT TV venture

Tags: canvas, bt, itv, bbc

Sainsbury's goes shopping for new IT director
Supermarket becomes house of Fraser

Tags: sainsbury, it director, boots, post

Cash-strapped Brits rein in web shopping
Visiting Poundland instead...

Tags: e-tail, recession, online shopping, switching

Virgin Atlantic integrates IT and finance depts
Exclusive: Techies move in with beancounters

Tags: airline, cio, virgin atlantic, mike

Police IT: 'Lots of money is being wasted'
CBI can't see the joins

Tags: police, operational efficiency programme, procurement, cbi

Google gives SMEs a better slice of local search
Getting a pizza the postcode action

Tags: google, search, local, accounts

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Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
No wonder no one's buying...

Matthew Cushen
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Markets are not always what they seem

Tim Ferguson
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Q&A: Erik Huggers, director, BBC's Future, Media and Technology

Kit Burden
Legal Eye: Tech could brighten retailers' gloom
Regulation and recession loom

Matthew Cushen
Retailers: Look to emerging markets
Comment: Massive opportunities if you get the IT right

Julian Goldsmith
How Zavvi lost its Virginity
IT director Tony Johnson on the retailer's changing web strategy

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