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The Weekly Round-Up: 22.05.09
Round-Up Which is either a recipe for a long and happy marriage or a guaranteed one-way ticket to the divorce courts, depending on your perspective. Then we'll begin. Oh, what's that? You're not sitting comfortably at all, but... [22 May 2009]
Outsourcing - expert tips on iron-clad protection
News Breaking up is always hard to do, especially when you and your partner are knee-deep in a multimillion-pound deal to transform back-office processes. But these messy divorces are not inevitable, with a bit of forethought and good... [07 May 2009]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News An increasing number of companies buying IT products and services are hoping to avoid contract problems or even a messy divorce by setting up a 'vendor management office' (VMO) to keep tighter control of suppliers,... [27 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Cut the bull
Comment Or, "Always plan for the divorce before you get married" for contract preparations. Many IT managers constantly complain about not being understood by non-technical colleagues. But what do they expect when no one can... [17 Mar 2008]
Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…
Comment The NHS was left, as many estranged spouses have been in the wake of a particularly brutal divorce case, wondering how on earth it was going to pick up the pieces and start all over again. But public sector organisations... [04 Feb 2008]
Orange hints at Carphone divorce
News Mobile operator Orange has hinted it may drop its retail deal with Carphone Warehouse, just one day after Vodafone made the same decision. Should France Telecom-owned Orange shun Carphone, the retail chain will be deprived of two of the... [13 Oct 2006]
Avoid the "curse" of cheap outsourcing deals
News He said: "CEOs divorce themselves from the process of selecting suppliers at their peril. Outsourcing deals based on selecting the supplier with the cheapest bid are the most likely to run into trouble, according to... [14 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.08.06
Round-Up Going off completely on a tangent the issue of quickie divorces was in the headlines this week, with one newspaper claiming former England striker Gary Lineker was granted a 20-second divorce, while another paper... [04 Aug 2006]
Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge
News The dispute has elevated the prominence of search privacy, touching on how divorce lawyers or employers in a severance dispute could gain access to search terms that people have typed in. US District Judge James Ware... [15 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Jammers not listeners
Comment They are quite happy to shout (literally) about their latest conquest, divorce, medical details and whatever! Ever since the mobile phone was launched, and even more so since the arrival of wi-fi, a good percentage of... [28 Feb 2006]
CIO Jury: Techies put computers before Cupid
News The cost of divorce is another entirely. Three-quarters of IT bosses say they would put business before romance - and risk having their best suits cut into shreds by cancelling a Valentine's Day dinner if a crisis came... [13 Feb 2006]
O2 boosts data, sees ARPU slip over Christmas
News Peter Erskine, CEO of O2, said in a statement he was "particularly pleased" with the results - O2's best quarter since its divorce from BT some years ago. O2 has turned in its third-quarter key performance indicators - a... [23 Jan 2006]
2006: A mobile odyssey
News 2006 will be a year of upheaval for the mobile industry in Europe, with IP and VoIP meaning leaner times for operators - and a rawer deal for mobile users. A new report from analysts at Informa Telecoms and Media is predicting next year... [24 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.08.05
Round-Up Frankly the Round-Up is a little surprised that 81 per cent of respondents have partners - not least of all because of all the time they spend married to their job but also because that figure sounds remarkably high in these footloose... [26 Aug 2005]
'Be flexible, not addicted', warns Citrix
News Citrix's Gee even cited research which he claimed shows the BlackBerry will be the biggest single cause of divorce in the US this year, though he stopped short of giving the source of said research - suggesting it is... [07 Jun 2005]
