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Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Yahoo! under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution, the company said. [27 Jun 2008]
TCS employs another 350 in UK
News Outsourcer TCS has opened centres at Redhill in Surrey and Stirling in Scotland to develop applications for a large insurer and other customers. An Indian outsourcer is opening two development centres in the UK that will employ 350 people. [27 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for... [27 Jun 2008]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Justice minister Michael Wills has called for a root-and-branch change in how the government handles citizen data. Wills told the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Wednesday that government should treat... [26 Jun 2008]
Ambulance service loses 999 details
News Details on the disc included a copy of the record of 894,629 calls made to the ambulance service in the West of Scotland since February 2006. The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one... [25 Jun 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Oracle's latest price list for its growing portfolio of applications software contains significant increases across the range, and a particularly large price rise for its BEA software. [24 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Psst! MI5 is on the hunt for techies with killer design skills. The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions... [23 Jun 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. [23 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Government CIO John Suffolk is number five in this year's silicon.com CIO50 list. It's a testament to his standing in the CIO community and an acknowledgement of just how critical his role is. [23 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing delays?
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland New mobile phones being developed by Google and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some carriers and program makers are struggling to meet... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build... [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland IT is suffering from a well documented skills shortage - and industry bodies have warned thousands more tech and telecoms workers will be needed in the coming years to power the knowledge economy. [20 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Online shopping is continuing to grow steadily across many ranges in May but the lack of a home nations team in the Euro 2008 football championship means sales of electrical goods and alcohol has fallen by around... [20 Jun 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its electronic trading platform TradElect with promises of exponential increases in volumes over the next couple of years. [20 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to expand. The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY... [20 Jun 2008]
