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Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Royal Mail's Robin Dargue has been voted the UK's top CIO as he embarks on a mammoth technology-based £2bn transformation programme aimed at making the 360-year-old organisation leaner and able to compete better in the deregulated postal market. [11 Jun 2008]
Google trusts users with the Gmail testing reins
News Google has launched a version of its Labs development programme for Google Mail, allowing users to test new applications for the email service. Google Mail Labs allows users to try out a number of apps - currently 13 - and then share feedback with... [09 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News It also warns of bank accounts being taken over by fraudsters tricking call centre workers, a 37 per cent rise in the cost of phone, internet and mail order fraud and the threat from chip and PIN devices being modified to capture card details. [06 Jun 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Royal Mail is on course to save £300m over three years through efficiencies created by its SAP-based procurement transformation programme. Royal Mail director of performance and transformation, Daniel Cameron, explained to silicon.com that the SAP... [22 May 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News I do have web access and IM but my email inbox won't update and I can't send mail. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to do your job remotely. [16 May 2008]
Microsoft plans to go it alone online
News He pointed to the growing number of desktop applications Microsoft has created that connect to online services, such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Writer. In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo! [07 May 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News It said the average cost to advertisers per response rate is 53p - which makes Blyk a more efficient form of advertising than online (£1.50), email (£2.00), direct mail (£12.50) and unprofiled mobile SMS (£2.22). [25 Apr 2008]
Co-op Financial Services' mail goes digital in £12m deal
News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has signed a £12m deal with Xerox to digitise its mail-sorting processes. The company, which brings together Co-operative Insurance, The Co-operative Banks and online bank Smile and is owned by the Co-operative... [15 Apr 2008]
BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch
News Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo! Users have been receiving a 553 error message when trying to send emails from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Mac Mail. [31 Mar 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News However the biggest losses were in phone, internet and mail order fraud, up in 2007 by 37 per cent to £290m. Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing industry body Apacs. [12 Mar 2008]
Drinks giant Diageo hires new CIO
News Drinks giant Diageo has appointed a new CIO to fill the seat left vacant after previous IT chief, Robin Dargue, left to join Royal Mail. Diageo's new CIO is Brian Franz who joins from rival PepsiCo International where he was senior VP and CIO. [03 Mar 2008]
Europe dishing out more spam than US
News European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited mail than the US for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. The security vendor called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised US... [07 Feb 2008]
Gov't fails to keep court data locked up
News A question mark hangs over which postal carrier handled the discs, as the Royal Mail cast doubt on its involvement saying: "We have not been given any indication by the Ministry of Justice that [the data loss] has anything to do with Royal Mail. [23 Jan 2008]
Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search
News Police are reported to have searched NAO offices, two HMRC premises and other government buildings, the Royal Mail depot in Belfast, four TNT depots and a rubbish tip in Kent, with the main search concluding on 5 December 2007. [14 Jan 2008]
Retailers to scan discount vouchers by mobile phone
News The launch follows a trial of the service in 160 retailers in Kent, involving Newsgroup Newspapers, The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph. Thousands of newsagents in the North West of England are to start scanning customers' discount... [10 Dec 2007]
