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Comment Compiled on KLM 1508 flying Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com via wi-fi from my Amsterdam hotel a day later The expression 'a baker's dozen' originated around the 13th century in an early statute... [11 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment Compiled during a visit to Amble in Northumberland, edited on the A1 heading home, and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G from Norwich Airport two days later I keep hearing presentations and reading reports and articles... [09 Jun 2009]
Aviva slashes 1,100 jobs
News Norwich Union Life, part of Aviva, today confirmed that the majority of the losses will be in the areas of IT and business change.permanent roles will be cut by the end of 2009, but the insurer said that the impact on... [03 Apr 2009]
Google's Street View gives UK its close up
News The full list of UK cities covered by the service includes: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle,... [20 Mar 2009]
Aviva insures datacentre future with £700m deal
News EDS will manage two datacentres for the world's fifth biggest insurance group, both of which are located in Norwich but serve operations in France, India, Ireland and the UK. Back in December, Aviva - known as... [03 Mar 2009]
Green-lighted drivers pay less to drive
News Norwich Union tried using GPS tracking to offer pay-as-you go car insurance to its customers in 2006. Young drivers in Staffordshire will have their driving assessed by an in-car computer to earn discounts on their... [10 Feb 2009]
Norwich Union shifts critical data
News Norwich Union has awarded a four-year contract to Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to move business critical data to a new primary datacentre in Norwich. The data migration will take place with the system... [04 Dec 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Presentation SNAFUs
Comment Written on KLM1508 flying from Amsterdam to Norwich, and dispatched to silicon.com from London via a free wi-fi service Several times over the past decades I have contemplated writing a book detailing all the things that... [25 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment Written on KLM1515 flying from Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com the same day via a company wired LAN I've just been looking at avatars and synthetic people over the past 15 years and must say the... [11 Nov 2008]
Ditched pay-as-you-drive insurance set for revival?
News Insurance giant Norwich Union launched its Pay As You Drive insurance policy back in October 2006, paying for telematics boxes to be installed in customers' cars to collect data on when, where and how their vehicles were... [06 Oct 2008]
Regulators cracking down on outsourcers
Comment In December 2007 the FSA fined Norwich Union Life £1.26m for various shortcomings in information security and fraud prevention. As more financial services companies look to outsource core parts of their operations to... [09 Sep 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News The world's fifth largest insurance group, owner of Norwich Union, struck an eight-year deal with Indian outsourcer WNS Global Services to run its business process outsourcing operations. Insurance giant Aviva is to sell... [11 Jul 2008]
School Improves Communication, Saves Time and Money With New E-Mail System
White Paper An independent day school in Norfolk, England, Norwich School has 800 students and 120 staff. It wanted to offer e-mail accounts to both students and parents, but the existing system couldn't handle such a large user base. [02 Jul 2008]
Norwich Union considers IT outsourcing
News Norwich Union is considering outsourcing some of its IT infrastructure which could affect up to 400 IT staff next year. Most of the roles are based in Norwich but staff at Bristol and York could also be... [23 May 2008]
Aviva signs £300m comms deal
News The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and... [13 May 2008]
