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RSS $1.7m£10m deal gives London hospitals new bedside manner
News University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust could be set to introduce on-demand entertainment as well as access to clinical applications through a new bedside system being introduced at the trust. [27 Feb 2009]
Are you the new Q? MoD wants to hear from you
News The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep it supplied with the latest and greatest in gadgetry, the department announced today. Any small businesses who fancy getting in on the MoD supplying action are invited to... [14 Nov 2008]
Steria runs off with £17m MoD contract
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded European IT services company Steria a £17m contract to run its Land Systems Reference Centre (LSRC). The contract involves taking on the department's IT systems testing for the... [01 Nov 2007]
BT prepped to pay £67m for PlusNet
News BT is on the acquisition trail once again - having made a £67m offer for ISP PlusNet. A spokesman for the telco said the company was attracted to PlusNet for its customer service, innovation and management - as well as its WorkPlace CRM... [16 Nov 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment The world's fraudsters are suffering from crippling writers' block. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting their nails, not daring to touch the keyboard, all inspiration gone. How do I know? [27 Sep 2006]
NTT DoCoMo flirts with mobile WiMax
News Japan's NTT DoCoMo is eyeing a WiMax network. The mobile operator has said it has applied for a licence from the Japanese ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to run a test WiMax network. The outdoor network will be set up in... [30 Mar 2006]
National police intelligence system looks at using existing IT
News The government is considering using the existing Criminal Justice IT (CJIT) hub as the basis for the national police intelligence system recommended by the Bichard Report following the intelligence failings of the Soham murder... [03 Mar 2006]
Vanco wins £19.6m Euromaster outsourcing deal
News Tyre company Euromaster has outsourced its entire corporate telecoms network to Vanco in a three-year deal worth £19.6m. It is Vanco's largest single deal to date and the virtual network operator (VNO) will be responsible for the design... [24 Feb 2006]
Reed turns to Sirocom in €17m virtual network deal
News Sirocom has won a €17m, three-year deal to supply converged voice and data networking to recruitment business Reed Managed Services. The agreement follows a lengthy contest against other, better-known telcos and the... [22 Feb 2006]
PlusNet buys Metronet for £1.7m
News UK ISP PlusNet has bought fellow ISP Parbin for £1.7m. Parbin, which trades as Metronet, has some 16,000 broadband customers. PlusNet will now offer those customers a wider choice of broadband packages as well as access... [28 Nov 2005]
€17m IT spend for government's aid department
News Business systems firm Agresso is to lead a €17m project to replace IT systems at the UK's Department for International Development. The poverty-fighting arm of the government, which employs more than 1,400 people around... [22 Nov 2005]
Ex-Microsoft staffer jailed for running software racket
News A former Microsoft employee was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday stemming from charges of illegal sales of the company's software to grey-market vendors. Finn W Contini, a former Microsoft group assistant, was also sentenced... [22 Nov 2005]
Key criminal justice IT contracts awarded
News Fujitsu Services has won a £17m contract to provide hosting services for a massive Criminal Justice System (CJS) project to link up offender and case data from various police and court IT systems. As part of the same... [23 Sep 2005]
Xansa's Cropper loses cancer battle
News Dame Hilary Cropper, former CEO of Xansa, respected business leader and one of the first women to break into the top tier of the UK IT industry, has died of cancer at the age of 63. Cropper joined computer programming firm Freelancers... [04 Jan 2005]
Three tech pioneers cash in
News Three UK industry pioneers have cashed in their stocks. The big winner is telecoms pioneer Asher Grant, who sold his company for the second time to pull in around £30m. Centrica, the British Gas subsidiary, has paid £43m for the... [27 Sep 2004]
