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Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no exception… Another item on the...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

AMD tech chief resigns

News The company has struggled with intensified competition from, and market-share losses to larger rival Intel, as well as technical problems with its eagerly anticipated server processor code-named Barcelona.

Tags: cto, intel, amd

[15 Apr 2008]

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses

News Shell has been accused of keeping IT staff in the dark over their future following the oil giant's £4bn outsourcing deals. EDS will be the operational integrator for the outsourcing contracts, with approximately 1,500 Shell IT staff and contractors...

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

[03 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe

Comment Cost reduction means job losses. With spring and recession in the air, a CEO's fancy turns to pruning costs - and for the Naked CIO's department that means job cuts. He is already under-resourced, so what should he do?

Tags: management, resources, job cuts, recession

[03 Mar 2008]

Can the government offshore with confidence?

Comment There is no denying there are political sensitivities around the offshore issue, driven predominantly by a fear of job losses, a concern about the impact on the UK economy and a lack of confidence in the quality of service delivered from low-cost...

Tags: offshoring, dwp, john suffolk, departments

[14 Feb 2008]

3 to shut Superdrug concessions

News There will be "sub-300" job losses as a result of the closures - including some redundancies, said the spokesman. The company will exit 107 of the 127 concessions it has in the health and beauty chain, which is owned by its parent company Hutchison...

Tags: 3, mobile, retail, sites

[14 Jan 2008]

BT: Job cuts on the way?

News BT is to announce a number of job losses when it issues its latest financial results next week. However, another spokesperson said on Thursday the reorganisation was "always going to entail job losses".

Tags: bt, openreach, job losses, job

[02 Nov 2007]

More jobs to go at Alcatel-Lucent

News These cuts are in addition to the 12,500 job losses announced in February of this year. Its latest financial statement appeared to suggest that the 4,000 job cuts are likely to happen in the company's support and carrier business divisions...

Tags: alcatel-lucent, networking, telecoms, quarter

[01 Nov 2007]

Credit crunch hits tech contractors

News Jon Butterfield, MD of ReThink Recruitment, said some of the funds that suffered the heaviest losses need to refine and test their systems to be better positioned to respond to market volatility in the future.

Tags: contractor, london, engineering, olympics

[31 Oct 2007]

Sun's Schwartz bets on storage

News But it remains unclear how many job losses have already occurred and how many affect its server and storage teams. Sun is to increase its focus on storage through a major internal reorganisation, the company's chief executive has announced.

Tags: virtualisation, storage, sun

[03 Oct 2007]

Bigger is not always better

Comment So, should problems arise, the burden of responsibility is on the banks, which would be unable to recoup losses. Such banks were prepared to provide these smaller vendors with an environment that would allow them to prove they could do the job.

Tags: mifid, basel ii, sepa, banks

[02 Oct 2007]

Sun plans job cuts

News That move comes after Sun posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit on 30 July, marking its third consecutive quarter of profitability after a string of losses. The server giant expects to incur charges of $100m to $150m over the next several quarters...

Tags: jonathan schwartz , job cuts, sun

[08 Aug 2007]

Co-op to axe 1,000 jobs in £100m efficiency drive

News CFS said the job losses are "regrettably unavoidable". Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is to cut 1,000 jobs this year as part of plans to reduce operating costs by £100m by the end of June 2008 but will also boost investment in new technology.

Tags: co-op, co-operative financial services

[20 Jul 2007]

HMV adopts lean digital business strategy

News The HMV spokeswoman confirmed this would result in job losses in both departments but declined to give any indication of the numbers of staff involved. Music, video and games retailer HMV Group has set out its web 2.0 stall as part of an effort to...

Tags: waterstones, hmv, social networking, online

[28 Jun 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN

Cheat Sheet But card-not-present fraud now makes up nearly 50 per cent of all card fraud losses and online banking losses rose by 44 per cent. Having said that, Shell and Apacs said the issue was the result of an inside job so this perhaps shouldn't be taken...

Tags: credit cards, debit cards, chip-and-pin

[13 Jun 2007]

Vodafone gets Hungary for shared services

News The spokesman said there will be no job losses within the company and existing Vodafone staff will shift job roles to focus more on business analysis and decision-making support rather than simple transactions.

Tags: hungary, shared services, vodafone

[11 May 2007]

BT: 'Web services are our future'

News The reorganisation will entail no job losses, according to a BT spokesperson. BT has announced a major internal reorganisation aimed at making it easier for the company to develop and roll out web-based services.

Tags: web services, 21cn, bt

[24 Apr 2007]

To outsource or not to outsource?

Comment Outsourcing for many companies has traditionally meant job losses, which made it an extremely hard sell to employees. Anthony Plewes weighs the pros and cons. Network outsourcing is one of the highest growth areas in managed services, according to...

Tags: network security, outsourcing, network management

[16 Apr 2007]

Workers 'worse off' under private equity

News Unions have been increasingly critical of private equity firms, claiming that much of the cost stripped out of the companies they take over comes in the form of job losses and wage cuts. Workers could be between £84 and £231 a year worse off...

Tags: employee, change management, acquisitions, management

[26 Mar 2007]

Barclaycard closes call centre, offshores to India

News An Amicus representative said the union believes it to be "totally inappropriate" for a large and highly profitable employer such as Barclaycard to be announcing closures and job losses. Barclaycard will move some of its operations to India...

Tags: barclaycard, manchester, job losses, call centres

[07 Mar 2007]

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