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Comment I have seen a number of people who outsource lock stock and barrel. Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way since starting out on the trams and buses that parade up and down the Golden...
[30 Jan 2008]
Comment For some organisations these costs are just too high and a number of companies have delisted from US stock exchanges to avoid the cost of complying with the onerous requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. Companies are wilting under the weight of...
[07 Jan 2008]
Comment Just 24 hours later, they dump the stock which they hope is trading at a higher price thanks to their pumping. The pump-and-dump stock spam, for example, is initiated by criminals who buy up stock of publicly traded companies with stolen credit...
[10 Dec 2007]
Round-Up Not unless you want to be a curiosity item at the end of the local news report and be filmed braving the inclement weather queuing for a phone that will be in stock for months. So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press...
[09 Nov 2007]
Round-Up Break out the bubbly and the vastly over-priced stock options. When a 23-year-old college drop-out with a novelty website is voted the most influential person in technology it can mean only one thing: the second internet bubble is most definitely...
[19 Oct 2007]
AS Profile The platform behind this is one of the fastest and most resilient on the internet today, processing more than five million transactions a day and more than 300 bets a second - easily outdoing City institutions and stock exchanges.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile Ellison is also the majority shareholder of NetSuite, a CRM and ERP software-as-a-service vendor, which announced its intention in July to float on the stock market. Larry Ellison has been perhaps the most colourful figure in the global IT industry...
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile His next challenge will be getting the timing right for Betfair's much-rumoured and hotly awaited stock market flotation. The man at the heart of the unfolding Betfair success story, David Yu is the techie who made good, after rising through the...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment What our strategy tends to be is unless it is something we think is going to be a value-add operation such as ordering of stock into stores we try and use an off-the-shelf type solution. In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT...
[25 Sep 2007]
Comment I'm not sure about some of the gains in that stock since that time but that's another story. Com spun off handheld-maker Palm, retaining a significant share, and the latter's stock market value rose so much for a while it meant 3Com's stake in Palm...
[15 Aug 2007]
Round-Up For the record, the Round-Up's stock answer is 'a bit like the telephone network except with computers'. Kids these days don't know they're born. While today's young adults embrace mobile technology, social networking and digital music, they're...
[27 Jul 2007]
Comment Having a super-hacker as the villain in Die Hard 4.0 means the average Joe is now envious and fearful of geeks (who knows, maybe it's their stock options, their iPhones, their. Rejoice! Techies are now so feared by the public they are being cast as...
[18 Jul 2007]
Round-Up Presumably that's our in-demand developer friends again, spending large swathes of the working day on Facebook, for research purposes of course, and watching the value of their stock options rise as the web 2.0 bubble grows.
[13 Jul 2007]
Comment The only place we are seeing much growth are the large investment banks, stock exchanges and asset managers. One-fifth of this year's CIO50 list is represented by the financial services sector. With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep...
[19 Jun 2007]
CIO Analysis The only place we are seeing much growth are the large investment banks, stock exchanges and asset managers. One-fifth of this year's CIO50 list is represented by the financial services sector. With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment I now have a stock of around 20 snippets of useful information that I can send to clients either before or after I've met them on a wide range of topics. Mike Barrett explains how consultants can come off looking sharp from the start.
[16 May 2007]
Comment It was then suggested I might like to get myself up to Brent Cross shopping centre where they have one left in stock. Will Sturgeon explains why companies must realise switching on their website, sending automated emails and embracing e-tail doesn...
[10 May 2007]
Comment The boom at the end of the 1980s was abruptly halted in Japan - while still an economic giant, its stock market has never really recovered and the economy has been sluggish ever since - and the end of this year will see a decade since high-growth...
[09 May 2007]
Comment Moreover, building stock reductions from thousands of sites to tens of sites can be achieved and power reductions have a radical impact on the entire ICT chain. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi...
[02 May 2007]
Round-Up Hundreds of 419 scams merrily dance past Microsoft's lame-duck filtering each and every day, accompanied by Korean spam, offers of miracle 'enhancements' (ahem), pump-and-dump stock tips, college diplomas and every other kind of spam you can think...
[09 Mar 2007]
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