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Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Users get a dongle with their Eee and Orange's 'Internet Everywhere' package - with a data allowance of 3GB, and 100 texts from the laptop. A monthly wi-fi allowance of 500 minutes and a 5GB fair use data policy applies to the business packages. [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News The best idea, in my view, is if companies could say on devices how much data you are using, or give a fixed allowance on data roaming. Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data roaming on Monday, Fabio Colasanti said the Commission was hesitant to... [22 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Unite asked for all affected staff to be given three months working notice and three months paid redundancy notice, and for redundant staff seeking retraining externally to be given a £2,000 allowance. [14 Jul 2008]
Norwich Union automates HR enquiries
News The application allows staff to get information about straightforward policies, such as holiday allowance, pay conditions and absence.silicon.com Financial Services Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier... [15 Oct 2007]
Email impossible to escape - even on holiday
News According to research, holidays often take second place to the day job for a lot of IT managers, with many failing to take their full annual holiday allowance due to the demands of the job. It seems a large proportion of people are unable to... [02 Aug 2007]
Vodafone forced to connect with comms union
News Vodafone must now consult with Connect on the pay, hours and holiday allowance of its network infrastructure staff in these regions. Around 200 Vodafone workers in the Midlands, the North of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained... [23 Jul 2007]
Linear Multi-View Reconstruction for Translating Cameras
White Paper The main advantages of this method are points and camera centers are computed simultaneously from one linear system containing all image data, the allowance of arbitrary missing data. This paper presents a linear multi view reconstruction algorithm... [19 Jul 2007]
BlackBerrys and PDAs bad for work/life balance
News Most mail can be dealt with through the BlackBerry and it doesn't break your baggage allowance or back. A recent survey by RIM found an average BlackBerry user converts one hour of downtime to productive time each day and ups their overall team... [18 Jul 2007]
Techies chilling not stressing - poll
News A survey by the Chartered Management Institute found 63 per cent of managers will not use their full holiday allowance this year - and 20 per cent of them blamed excessive workloads for scuppering holiday plans. [09 Jul 2007]
Stressed managers too busy to take holidays
News Excessive workloads are causing almost two-thirds of managers in the IT industry to miss out on some of their annual holiday allowance. The research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) found 63 per cent of managers will not use their full... [03 Jul 2007]
John Leggate
CIO Profile Aside from the achievement of running such a vast global IT operation - more than 60,000 desktops - Leggate has also encouraged an environment of innovation and leading-edge thinking in IT at BP, including a 'digital consumer' initiative that is... [06 Jun 2007]
'Keeping the lights on' stifles tech innovation
News One approach would be to have a Google-style "creativity allowance" for staff to work on their own ideas, suggested Paul Broome, CTO at 192.com. The pressure to 'keep the lights on' and focus on business systems is stifling innovation and... [30 Apr 2007]
Effective Cost Per Minute: Measuring Success in Wireless Expense Management
White Paper The success factors in controlling wireless expense include: having employees make purchases under the corporate discount agreements negotiated with the providers, closely matching employees' calling plan minutes to their actual business calling... [13 Apr 2007]
What the Budget means for the tech industry
News This year's budget also introduced an Annual Investment Allowance of £50,000 for all businesses and improved green initiatives. The Budget has received a guarded welcome from the tech industry, which praised the increase in R&D credits but insists... [22 Mar 2007]
India rebuts work visa 'abuse' allegations
News Most of those - 79 per cent - were granted to Indian IT workers being transferred to work on contracts in the UK, prompting allegations from the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (Atsco) that some of the Indian offshore outsourcing... [26 Feb 2007]
