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IT staff hit by 1,150 job cuts at HSBC, Credit Suisse
News Most of HSBC's cuts will take place at the bank's London headquarters in Canary Wharf but regional centres such as Birmingham and Leeds are also expected to see losses.silicon.com Financial Services IT... [02 Dec 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The four-month trial took place at Coffee Republic's outlets in Broadgate, Bluewater shopping centre and Canary Wharf between January and April 2008 - and the company said it saw a 50 per cent rise in... [23 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone launch: Tech trouble for O2
News However one iPhone customer, who was second in the queue to buy from a Carphone Warehouse shop in Canary Wharf this morning, told silicon.com problems with O2's system meant he had to spend an hour in... [11 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side
News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive is a handy photo guide to London's wi-fi pubs, from Dirty Dicks in the heart of the city on Bishopsgate to The Henry Addington out in... [09 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. Scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brains come and go as regularly as... [04 Mar 2008]
Offshore Indian outsourcer to open London facility
News This year it will open an IT development facility in Canary Wharf, an addition UK MD Sanjiv Gossain hopes will continue the 70 per cent annual business growth it has enjoyed in the UK over the last two... [29 Feb 2008]
HSBC drops mobile Bluetooth ad plans
News The bank ran a trial of the technology earlier this year at its Regent Street and Canary Wharf branches in London. HSBC has dropped plans to send advertising messages using Bluetooth technology to the... [01 Oct 2007]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study The bet broker and clearing house, based in London's Canary Wharf, was launched in 2003 and offers punters one account to access all the markets and the best available prices for any sporting event... [19 Sep 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News The rollout of contactless card readers has started in London, in several areas including Canary Wharf, with participating retailers in the rest of the UK set to get the tech over the course of next year. [04 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment Does a police force dealing with a terrorist's details have more robust mobile security than a leading investment bank in Canary Wharf? I've been away for a week on holiday. I don't normally do the whole... [29 Aug 2007]
'It's a wi-fi network - and it's an ad'
News In London, the recent trawl around the City and Canary Wharf - so-called wardriving - showed about one per cent of networks trying to entice customers in this way. In the latest report from Kaspersky... [01 Jun 2007]
Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn
News Visa will then introduce contactless payWave facilities at retailers around some of London's transport centres, including Canary Wharf, Liverpool Street and Waterloo stations. Visa is to launch... [04 May 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News MasterCard and Visa's contactless cards are set to launch in October - initially in the City of London and Canary Wharf. Retailers are increasingly worried that the forthcoming launch of contactless... [24 Apr 2007]
FSA signs far-reaching outsourcing deals
News The FSA said this should allow it to free up office space in Canary Wharf. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has handed the bulk of its IT to Fujitsu Services in an eight-year, £80m outsourcing... [20 Apr 2007]
HSBC pushes mobile ads via Bluetooth
News The trial has been running at two HSBC branches in Regent Street and Canary Wharf and the promotional message encourages the person to go inside the branch for more information. HSBC is trialling... [02 Apr 2007]
