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RSS employees in newsYahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News In an invective-filled letter to Yahoo, Icahn used terms like "deceitful", "self-destructive", "misleading" and "insulting to shareholders" for moves by Yang and the board to retain employees in a severance plan likely to make a deal with... [05 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News According to the latest figures from UK skills agency, e-Skills, Northern Ireland has around 15,000 employees working in the tech sector. Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an emerging UK tech hub. [02 Jun 2008]
Taxman gets record number of online returns
News Each year about 1.8 million employers throughout the UK are required to inform HMRC of their employees' tax and national insurance payments for the last financial year. Employers with 50 or more employees must file their 2007-08 return online. [02 Jun 2008]
Want to progress in IT? Then be a business swot
News As such, Yeo said it is an essential characteristic required of employees in senior tech positions. Regardless of whether the role of IT practitioners in the organisation relates to sales, or is one that is strictly technical in nature, business... [02 Jun 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News Dell also said it has added about 2,700 employees through acquisitions, bringing the net employee reduction to 5 per cent. The PC maker reported its first-quarter profits yesterday, with revenue of $16bn, a 9 per cent improvement from a year ago... [30 May 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News The contract with Cable & Wireless (C&W) is intended to free office staff from their desks by using mobile VoIP phones, allow remote experts to advise customers on the best wines or gadgets via video kiosks and transmit regular video pep-talks for... [28 May 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News At its Silicon Valley complex it's famed for pampering staff with gourmet free food and more flavours of smoothie than there are colours in the rainbow, but Google employees closer to home can now feel smug as its London GooglePlex has been named... [28 May 2008]
Working from home way to green dream?
News Betts said letting employees work from home can significantly reduce carbon emissions. Both the Met Office and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have advised businesses to encourage home working, saying this brings... [27 May 2008]
BT pay industrial action suspended - for now
News The union added there are also major concerns about the pay gap between male and female employees. The threat of industrial action by BT managers over pay conditions has been averted - for now - as talks continue between the telco and the trade... [23 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Platforms such as Facebook are becoming more organised by publishing their APIs and giving users privacy controls with which to define how their want their identities managed, he said, adding that integrating such platforms could go a long way in... [23 May 2008]
Mobile management woes? O2's here to help
News O2 UK has launched a managed services offering for enterprises looking to cope with increasing numbers of employees wielding smart phones. Ben Dowd, business sales director at O2 UK, said in a statement: "Mobile email is no longer simply a tool for... [21 May 2008]
EDS customers advised to look for price cuts
News EDS and HP's collective services businesses, as of the end of each company's 2007 fiscal year, had annual revenues of more than $38bn and 210,000 employees, doing business in more than 80 countries. HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating... [21 May 2008]
HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS
News The two companies collective services businesses, as of the end of each company's 2007 fiscal year, had annual revenues of more than $38bn and 210,000 employees, doing business in more than 80 countries. [13 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network of volunteer data gatherers. [09 May 2008]
CSC signs $400m contract with Zurich
News The eight-year deal will see CSC assume responsibility for electronic workplace desktop services (EWP) for about 51,000 employees of the insurance-based financial giant.silicon.com Financial Services Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has signed a... [02 May 2008]
