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RSS e-auctionImperial College Streamlines Purchasing and Improves Efficiency With e-Auction-Based Sourcing
White Paper Imperial College used Oracle Sourcing to source 5% to 6% of a US$365 million purchasing budget and have plans to increase that percentage over time and sourced key commodities, such as utilities, office supplies, laboratory supplies,... [30 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet It's also working on protecting the London 2012 Olympic Games from online threats and collating fraud reports from online auction site eBay. So, PCeU. Bless you, that's not swine flu is it? Not a sniff of it - PCeU... [20 Jul 2009]
Chocs away for Thorntons new e-auctions
News Thorntons, which previously used a pay-as-you-go managed online auction system from Wax Digital, is now moving to a flat-fee option where it will host its own auctions on the same system. Thorntons will run its first... [27 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News Bowron said: "The NFRC will as never before ensure that reports of computer fraud are recorded, whether it is somebody who has lost £5 in an online auction house or had their bank account emptied in a phishing attack. [25 Mar 2009]
CIOs offering vendors "suicidal deals"
News Case in point: a recent e-auction. According to Stephen, the e-auction lasted just 37 minutes and eventually had to be called off as none of the IT suppliers involved... [25 Feb 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The link-up will allow police to provide "a quicker response" to larger-scale frauds against the auction giant's users, according to architect of the PCeU, detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie. The UK's new... [25 Feb 2009]
Building society Principality overhauls IT
News Williams told silicon.com the contract was won by NTL Telewest Business through an e-auction set up on a platform run by Trading Partners. Welsh building society Principality has used a major telecoms... [10 Feb 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Tuesday, Meadway said the government and Ofcom should re-examine the auction model that will be used to dispose of UHF spectrum coming free as a result of the digital... [20 Jan 2009]
An XML-Based Multimedia Middleware for Mobile Online Auctions
White Paper The paper presents a prototype implementing an efficient multimedia middleware approach towards ubiquitous value-added services using an auction house as a sample application. Pervasive Internet services today promise to... [04 Dec 2008]
Who will win the LTE vs WiMax grudge match?
News In the UK market, Skeffington said WiMax is being held back by the delay of the 2.6GHz spectrum auction making it difficult for new operators to get to market. Telecoms regulator Ofcom expects the... [23 Oct 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News The report also called on Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, to accelerate the release of radio spectrum that could be used for mobile broadband, such as that due for release under an auction that is currently being held up... [12 Sep 2008]
Online auction slashes gov't laptop costs in half
News The e-auction, facilitated by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and sponsored by OGCbuying.solutions, was for 5,000 laptops and 5,000 PCs and achieved savings of 50 per cent on the laptops and 20... [22 Aug 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Late last month, eBay was ordered to pay €38m to LVMH for allowing the auction of fake goods purporting to be luxury items from Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Givenchy. The growth in online shopping and in particular... [22 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News Rollouts of the mobile variant of WiMax are dependent on the results of an Ofcom spectrum auction due later this year. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the best technology for providing wireless... [10 Jul 2008]
WiMax Forum stamps 2.5G products with seal of approval
News However, mobile WiMax's chances in the UK are largely dependent on the results of an auction for the same spectrum, to be held by the telecommunications regulator Ofcom towards the end of this summer. [20 Jun 2008]
