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Betfair spins into financial trading
News Once the Financial Services Authority gives the thumbs-up, Tradefair will be able to offer its users the ability to trade and bet on CFDs - equity derivatives that enable investors to speculate on share price movements... [10 Nov 2008]
CIO Jury: Businesses shun Windows on Macs
News Chris Broad, IT director, UK Atomic Energy Authority Peter Pedersen, CTO at online gaming firm Blue Square, said he would only consider Apple Macs for use in design and creative departments and not in... [06 Apr 2006]
Will councils hit e-government deadlines?
News According to a silicon.com reader poll, 71 per cent of the 141 respondents said they had noticed no new interaction from their local authority. Andy Vernon, a managing consultant for IT services firm PA, said: "With the... [01 Dec 2005]
All US passports to be RFID chipped
News A letter to the State Department from privacy groups says there is "no statutory authority" for the RFID passport because Congress has not authorised it. Lee Tien, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation,... [26 Oct 2005]
NHS updates key targets in £6bn IT modernisation
News The integration of the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) functions into Connecting for Health (CfH) is due to be complete by the end of September 2005 with the loss of 54 posts in NHSIA. CfH said it will also create and... [07 Sep 2005]
NYC subway gets $212m high-tech anti-terror scanners
News The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has chosen Lockheed as the prime contractor for the three-year deal to design and deploy a command and control-based critical infrastructure... [25 Aug 2005]
Mobiles could be used for public services
News Bracknell Forest has been one of the leaders in developing smart cards for council services, and is the lead authority in the National Smart Card Project. If you or I could think of it there is somebody out there who... [22 Apr 2005]
Web 'copycats' ripping off small businesses
News We then contacted the authority that controls the domain and heard nothing. However, he recently noticed another site, called 'Car or Car', that had cropped up in the previous month or so and was ripping off his site... [09 Mar 2004]
Red Cross gets broadband tonic
News Today BT announced a £23m four-year contract with the Security Industry Authority to design, build and manage its business information system and contact centre. The BT system will collect the fees,... [16 Jun 2003]
Shoddy search engines costing companies
News Nielsen also suggested that executives grant more authority to intranet managers to improve corporate systems. Intranet managers typically get mired in squabbles among disparate department managers over system... [14 Nov 2002]
Running an IT department: how the experts do it
News Compaq had a more traditional structure, with its IT department having the key decision-making authority as well as the responsibility of handling implementation. The new unit, known as Managed Services... [05 Sep 2002]
FTSE 100 sites fall down on 'schoolboy errors'
News Sheldon concluded that within the next year the Financial Services Authority will set standards for the performance of a corporate website in a way that is comparable with an accounts audit of a company. [13 Nov 2001]
In brief: AEA buys AE
News Formerly part of the Atomic Energy Authority, AEA paid £3.5m for the US firm. The acquisition will allow AEA to provide a larger range of design products for the petrochemical and oil industries. AEA... [01 Jul 1998]
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