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Photo Ricoh's Green Centre near Wellingborough in Northampton is a 43,000 square foot facility dedicated to processing IT kit, principally copiers, and either returning them back into the field as a reconditioned unit or stripping them of all components... [16 Mar 2006]
Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?
News Talking of the required move towards greater 'green thinking' in the tech industry, Paul Kennard, assistant general manager at Ricoh's Green Centre, near Northampton, says: "There are certainly a lot of people out there who are doing this because... [16 Mar 2006]
Salesforce.com goes offline again and again
News Bill Bither, a Salesforce customer in Northampton, Massachusetts, didn't think Monday's outage was so minor either. Several disgruntled Salesforce.com customers took their complaints to the blogosphere this week after enduring a series of recent... [01 Feb 2006]
Nationwide, the World's Largest Building Society, Turned to Prime Business Solutions for Help With Its Wireless LAN and Video Conferencing Over IP
White Paper With headquarters in Swindon and a second major administrative centre at Northampton, Nationwide offers a broad range of retail financial services. Nationwide had started looking at wireless LAN in 1999, testing the technology in a number of... [17 Jan 2006]
Cooking With Gas: Pitney Bowes Insertion Integrity at British Gas
White Paper Both the Manchester and Northampton sites are equipped with six 9 Series Pitney Bowes inserters, and with Pitney Bowes' Direct Connect processing software. British Gas fulfills its print and distribution commitments from one 'virtual' center... [10 Jun 2005]
Northampton, Kettering and Wellingborough District Council's - Procurement Joint Working Initiative
White Paper In the report, Towards a National Strategy for Local Government Procurement, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and Local Government Association (LGA) - in response to the Byatt Review - recommended that all county and unitary... [28 Apr 2005]
Nationwide reaffirms 'anti-offshoring' stance
News To back that up, Nationwide has today opened its new 180-person call centre in Sheffield with the help of a £200,000 government grant bringing the number of staff at existing UK call centres in Swindon, Swansea and Northampton to 900. [02 Dec 2004]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News The fraud-busting chip and PIN card technology is fast becoming the established method of card payment in the shops of Northampton, home to the UK's first trials of the system. The latest figures from the national chip and PIN programme claim... [16 Sep 2004]
Dynamic Law Firm Increases Productivity, Maintains Competitive Edge
White Paper Operating out of two offices, one in Northampton and another in Milton Keynes, the firm have generated U.S.million in revenue for 2002. Based in central England, Franklins Solicitors LLP provides counsel in civil and criminal litigation and... [24 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... One quarter of IT professionals admit being software pirates
News Mary Prior, from the University of Northampton, who presented the IMIS findings, said: "People in the 25 to 40 bracket were more likely to work on a project they didn't agree with, than older people. 10.02.99 One in four IT professionals think it... [10 Feb 2004]
Nationwide snubs Indian call centres in favour of UK
News Nationwide will open a new call centre in Sheffield, along with investment in the major refurbishment of existing call centres in Swindon and Northampton, which employ around 800 people. The Indian offshoring backlash has begun, with major 'British... [12 Jan 2004]
Homebase goes nationwide with chip and PIN
News Homebase was one of the stores that took part in the Northampton 'chip and PIN' trials earlier this year where people were issued with the new smart bank cards that use PIN authorisation at checkouts instead of a signature. [06 Nov 2003]
M&S spends £4m on fraud-fighting card tech
News The high-street chain took part in the Northampton trial of the 'chip and Pin' secure cards earlier this year and has now almost finished equipping all its stores with the hardware and software to accept the new cards at its cash tills. [06 Oct 2003]
£1.1bn fraud-busting bank card scheme goes nationwide
News More than 120,000 people in Northampton have already taken part in a trial earlier this year using the cards, which have a secure chip instead of a magnetic strip that allows transactions at tills to be verified by tapping in a four-digit Pin... [02 Oct 2003]
Retailers warned over £1.1bn fraud-busting scheme
News More than 120,000 people in Northampton, which is demographically representative of the UK average, spent three months testing the 'Chip and Pin' credit and debit cards that use a secure chip, which replaces the magnetic strip, and a PIN number at... [11 Sep 2003]
