cheques in news
RSS cheques in news5 years ago: DTI wins 3G roaming battle
News With the dust long on the auction since settled and the ink on the huge cheques long since dried, there's still a lot of mileage to be had out of third generation. 15.10.1999: The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)... [15 Oct 2004]
5 years ago…Vendors blamed for project failures
News We're signing cheques because we feel we have to," he said. 29.09.1999: IT managers are becoming increasingly frustrated by poor customer service from their suppliers - and are blaming them for project failures. [29 Sep 2004]
CIO Forum: IT industry accused of 'failing' UK plc
News We're signing cheques because we feel we have to," he said. The IT industry was put in the dock and accused of failing UK plc today in a live version of CIO Jury at the silicon.com CIO Forum. Author, broadcaster and... [27 Sep 2004]
Salesforce.com aggressive after 'quiet period'
News We don't see companies coming back to writing $10m upfront cheques to Siebel and Oracle. Fresh from its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange, Salesforce.com is once again talking up its business model - and talking... [23 Jul 2004]
Teen eBay scammer jailed for nearly three years
News The young man was also found guilty of bank fraud after trying to convince a member of one bank's staff to cash the cheques he received from the unlucky eBay users and to wire $400,000 to an overseas account. [16 Jun 2004]
Unisys takes over Dutch banks' paper payments
News Interpay currently processes 110 million cheques a year in the Netherlands. Unisys currently handles more than 70 per cent of the cheques in the UK, which number about 13 million a day, and is the... [06 Apr 2004]
$1 Cisco boss gets $85m share options
News According to a Reuters report these shares, when realised in accordance with SEC rules could net Chambers a staggering $85.7m - putting all those eight cent pay cheques each month into perspective. The notoriously frugal... [19 Sep 2003]
Siebel boss 'bigs up' UK e-government
News Offering the example of the social security system in the US, Siebel said: "These guys are running on old Hitachi dinosaurs of Cobal code and they deliver 250 million cheques, accurate to the cent, and once a month. [15 Nov 2002]
Microsoft gets serious about business apps
News Microsoft has laid out its plan for expanding its reach in the business applications market, with a software suite intended to help companies do everything from cut pay cheques to ringing up shopping at a checkout counter. [19 Sep 2002]
"He only returned to the party because he thought he had forgotten his hat"
News There seems to be a lot of proof of concept stuff going on, lots of excitement about the new products but nobody is writing the cheques. The pick of the week's quotes: I was working for a French electronics company in... [27 Aug 2002]
"The IT sector is going nowhere" - Sybase boss
News There seems to be a lot of proof of concept stuff going on, lots of excitement about the new products but nobody is writing the cheques. Sybase CEO John Chen has warned fellow vendors not to expect end-user interest in... [23 Aug 2002]
Axed WorldCom staff may lose severance pay-outs...
News It has emerged that the company changed its severance payments policy last month, before the fraud came to light, so that axed staff would receive their pay-off cheques in bi-weekly instalments rather than a one-off lump... [16 Jul 2002]
Five tequilas, two bottles of wine and a marathon
News Better still, if you or your company wants to dig into your pockets, then send cheques, small or large, made payable to KIDS to: Welcome to the first part of what will be a series of articles looking at how one of... [18 Mar 2002]
Biometrics offers no guarantees on security
News The crooks need new identities for accessing credit card accounts, securing loans and cashing cheques. Biometric technologies alone cannot prevent identity theft, according to a study. Consultancy firm Lexis Nexis found... [27 Feb 2002]
Misys banks on rosy 2002
News But I suspect they will be looking for reassurance before they sign the cheques, so that is likely to be towards the end of the year," Lomax told the Financial Times. Shares in Misys, the British software group, rose... [25 Jan 2002]
