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Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini
News Croydon Council has signed an extension to its IT outsourcing deal with Capgemini, worth an estimated £83m over five years. Capgemini will also provide consultancy services for Croydon's transformation programme to improve the level and efficiency... [23 Apr 2008]
iPhone 'mugging fear' unfounded, say police
News Operation Prestige took place in eight London boroughs: Brent, Camden, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets - which were selected after analysis of police intelligence, said Paice. [07 Jan 2008]
London: Capital of laptop theft
News Harrow (247); 24= Enfield (237); 24= Waltham Forest (237); 26= Croydon (230); 26= Greenwich (230); 28. Worst London boroughs for laptop robberies Brent (23) Lambeth (22) Westminster (21) Newham (20) Southwark (20) [15 May 2007]
Be extends next-gen fat pipes to third of Blighty
News Be's ADSL2+ network now covers the following locations: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Northampton... [16 Feb 2007]
Siemens wins £6.7m immigration IT contract
News Siemens is also taking on responsibility for managing the cashiering functions at the IND's public enquiry offices at Birmingham, Croydon, Glasgow and Liverpool. Siemens Business Services has won a £6.7m contract to manage the work permit... [21 Feb 2006]
Private eye made to pay £1,200 over data abuse
News A private detective has been made to pay £1,200 in costs and given a one-year conditional discharge by magistrates in Croydon after pleading guilty to unlawfully disclosing someone's bank account details. [13 Jan 2006]
eBay fraudster jailed and ordered to pay back £70,000
News Simon Edward Hurley from Coulsdon in Surrey was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on Friday to nine months' imprisonment and ordered to pay back £70,000 plus £8,000 costs within six months. Councillor Paul Smith, Croydon Council cabinet member for... [04 Oct 2005]
Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead with ID management
News Harry Croydon, CEO of Coverpoint, said: "It's essential for us that all our communications are secure while at the same time transactions can be processed as quickly as possible. The Royal Bank of Scotland is to provide digital certificates to 40... [28 Jun 2005]
Government rewards anti-ageist employers...
News Malcolm Wick, Minister for Pensions, said at the awards ceremony in London: "I know from my constituency, Croydon North, that age discrimination can be as nasty and disabling as discrimination based on physical disability, gender or race. [23 Jun 2004]
Norwich Union cuts 700 IT jobs
News Norwich Union said most of the losses will be compulsory and staff at Norwich, York, Bristol, Stevenage and Croydon sites will be affected. UK insurance firm Norwich Union is to axe 700 staff and 250 contractors from its Life unit in a cost-cutting... [09 Jun 2004]
Asylum fraud to be tackled with facial recognition technology
News A pre-tender document seen by silicon.com said the Home Office is looking to introduce scanning and facial recognition technology that can store images on a central database at its Croydon Asylum Screening Unit (ASU) later this summer. [23 May 2003]
Is this the world's thickest criminal?
News Kearns was picked up by Croydon police on 31 January after his getaway with the money went horribly wrong. A so-called computer hacker who bungled a blackmail attempt on Barclays Bank has been given a three-year prison sentence after he messed up a... [23 Aug 2001]
New Sainsbury's deal leaves Infosys feeling chilly
News Infosys opened its first European developer centre in Croydon, London, only last month on the back of the contract with Sainsbury's. Infosys, one of India's most successful high-tech companies, signed a five-year deal in March to provide J... [17 Nov 2000]
Bright lights of US tempting Asian workers away from UK
News Indian software giant Infosys has a development centre in Croydon, London. With the technology industry in Western Europe facing a potential shortage of 1.7 million high-tech workers by 2003, according to IDC, companies are increasingly looking to... [07 Nov 2000]
Asda to ramp-up home shopping service
News It currently has centres in Croydon and Watford, catering for about one million people. Supermarket chain, Asda, has announced a £318m investment programme, including an expansion of its IT-based home shopping service. [10 Jan 2000]
