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London: Card fraud hotspot
News Security analysts The 3rd Man looked at 30 million online and mail order card transactions from high street retailers and pinpointed the card fraud blackspots. Andrew Goodwill, director of The 3rd Man group attributes the fall to increased levels... [24 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street retailers. [18 Jul 2008]
Andrew Clarke
CIO Profile He looks after IT services across the seven high street trading brands of Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop and Wallis, as well as its out-of-town offering Outfit. Andrew Clarke joined Arcadia as group IT director in... [11 Jun 2008]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News Different situations suit certain payments and it seems that the high street is truly the place for the debit card. Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting cheques it is expected that a large proportion of... [12 May 2008]
Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome
News Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruitment company Harvey Nash, called it an "interesting release" but said the jury is still out, while Mike Roberts, IT director at private Harley Street doctors The London Clinic, said his organisation will wait until... [28 Feb 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain William Hill's interactive channel for the year ended 1 January 2008. Finance director Simon Lane told silicon.com: "Within the... [27 Feb 2008]
Swinton Insurance gets chatty with IP tech
News High street insurance chain Swinton has completed a roll-out of IP telephony and contact centre technology from Alcatel-Lucent. Adrian Hazeldine, IT director at Swinton Group said the main aim of the project is to answer more calls more efficiently... [21 Feb 2008]
Domino's online sales heat up
News That growth outstrips average high-street internet sales, which are running at 15 per cent. According to Domino's IT director Jane Kimberlin, much of this growth occurred later in the year, with the proportion of online sales actually running at 21... [20 Feb 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News Mike Roberts, IT director for private Harley Street hospital The London Clinic, said: "The 'inflation' in the demand for technology-based change in the health sector is driving op-ex growth at over 10 per cent. [17 Dec 2007]
Just why is Domino's alone in delivering online?
Comment Online business is growing so rapidly the chain is likely to review its property portfolio to see whether it can move some of its estate off the high street and on to less expensive premises. To be fair, most of the other high-street chains aren't... [10 Dec 2007]
Domino's sells £1m of pizza over the net in a week
News It calls into question the necessity for high street locations, for instance and there is a great deal of planning activity around this issue at the moment. Domino's Pizza UK marketing director Robin Auld told silicon.com online sales are growing... [30 Nov 2007]
Betfair betting engine goes supersonic
Case Study This, he said, is in comparison to a high street bank with a similar throughput load that will typically use a mainframe costing many millions of pounds. Matt Carter, Betfair director of architecture and advanced technology, explained to silicon... [15 Nov 2007]
Betbrokers fancies Sapphire's form
Case Study Betbrokers is a high-end business, with the average size of a bet going through the system standing at £1,200 - with the biggest so far being £250,000 - so the operation is a long way from the traditional high-street bookie. [19 Sep 2007]
CIO Essentials: Male techies, data breaches and web 2.0...
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like to take part in the CIO Essentials series by choosing... [18 Sep 2007]
Experts call for data breach legislation
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below, emailing us at editorial@silicon.com or signing the 10 Downing Street e-petition. Lord Harris said: "It's not a question of the IT director being responsible [for data breaches] but all the... [14 Sep 2007]
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