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RSS British GasTerasen Gas Turns to Microsoft BI to Gain Insight and Improve Decision Making
White Paper Terasen Gas, part of the Fortis Group, is based in Surrey, British Columbia, and is the third-largest utility company in Canada, providing natural gas and propane to 125 communities... [01 Sep 2009]
British Gas customers can turn up the heat using their mobile
News UK start-up AlertMe.com on Monday announced an agreement to test a service that will allow British Gas New Energy consumers to control their home heating systems from the web or mobile phone. The... [21 Jul 2009]
BT tops terrible customer service poll
News The wooden spoon for worst customer service goes to telco BT, with utilities company British Gas coming second and broadcaster-cum-telco Sky in third. Telecoms companies may tell us it's good to talk but... [30 Jun 2009]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo The house's owner was a passionate supporter of the British war effort in the 1940s and bankrupted himself and his family funding it. The gas plasma screen technology, along with other design features,... [19 Sep 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The BT IMOCA 60 is the fruit of a title sponsorship deal between Team Ellen - headed up by iconic British yachtswoman Dame Ellen McArthur - and BT inked in September last year. World-leading climate science from the UK's... [30 May 2008]
Taxman gets new CIO
News Lamey, who was named one of the UK's top CIOs in the silicon.com CIO50 2007, joined HMRC in October 2004 from British Gas and oversaw the integration of the IT operations of Customs & Excise and the... [18 Oct 2007]
Steve Lamey
CIO Profile Lamey then became British Gas CIO in 2000 where he led a global SAP rollout. What they say about him: "Steve has a great style which I am sure will see him do well at Revenue and Customs. If anybody's... [06 Jun 2007]
Tech key to €250m Linde and BOC merger savings
News Other video interviews in the CIO Vision Series include ¦ British Airways ¦ Reuters ¦ Virgin ¦ Vodafone Industrial gases group Linde is moving to a standardised global IT platform as part of company-wide plans... [27 Mar 2007]
Hello? Yes, I'm under water
News This project demonstrates an opportunity to help establish British industry at the forefront of this field. According to the DTI, the technology resulting from the research project should be invaluable to oceanographic... [26 Mar 2007]
Centrica takes £196m hit on IT systems
News Centrica, which owns British Gas, revealed the exceptional non-cash charge of £196m in its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2006, in which the group posted a five per cent drop in profits... [22 Feb 2007]
C&W guilty in British Gas 75p-per-minute case
News Cable & Wireless has admitted it was at fault after British Gas was fined £5,000 by regulator Icstis for its premium rate phone line. British Gas received the penalty... [11 Jan 2007]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment Yet this self-confessed non-techie was CIO of British Gas Residential for Centrica for one year before joining EDS. At British Gas she moved back into a CIO role because... [18 Oct 2006]
Tax office CIO gets 20 per cent pay rise
News Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's previous IT director John Yard just after the department's £3bn IT Aspire outsourcing contract... [15 Aug 2006]
British Gas engineers get @Road assistance
News British Gas has signed a deal with @Road, a provider of mobile resource management solutions, to get the best out of 6,500 field engineers. Last year, the system was trialled on the company's electrical... [10 Feb 2006]
Carphone Warehouse picks up Onetel for £132m
News The mobile phone retailer is buying Onetel, the phone business of British Gas-owner Centrica, for £132m in cash. Carphone Warehouse has plumped up its fixed-line telecoms business with two acquisitions... [19 Dec 2005]
