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Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News Mobile workforce management company Cognito has inked a five-year, £1.16m contract with GSH Group that will see UK field service engineers at the mechanical and electrical engineering services company... [12 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News Those issues - and how to handle them - was the subject of a discussion this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). At the same time, broader use of location-based services could... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News Senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, said in a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC): "A key part of Windows 7 is to enable a full spectrum of choices. For hardware makers, Microsoft has a... [06 Nov 2008]
Should your tech chief be a jack-of-all-trades?
News Rob Neil, IT director, Ashford Borough Council said: "I've moved from financial IT to engineering organisations, academia, product ordering and fulfilment then to the public sector. Harry Gardner, head of IT and group... [27 Oct 2008]
Associated Newspapers' CIO quits
News He joined Associated Newspapers in 2005 from the Financial Times, where he was group IT director, and has been involved in a number of large business process and technology change programmes at the media group ranging from wholesale... [08 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News Other services introduced on Monday include Lotus Sametime Unyte, for web conferences and document sharing; Rational Policy Tester OnDemand, which scans web content to deal with compliance issues; Rational AppScan... [06 Oct 2008]
Google unleashes first open source browser
News Google VP of product management Sindar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson said in a blog post: "We realised that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we... [02 Sep 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Chair of telecommunications engineering at the University of Ulster, professor Gerard Parr, told silicon.com: "We really have a huge responsibility in terms of local economic development. Invest Northern Ireland (NI),... [02 Jun 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News Speaking in London, Google's engineering site director, Ann Mai Chang, said: "We're focusing the majority of our development on web based applications. Dave Burke, technical lead and manager for mobile... [13 May 2008]
China key to Indian IT growth
News AS Murthy, head of human resources for Satyam, highlighted the shortage of skills among the 300,000 Indian students who graduate in engineering each year, saying only 25 per cent of these are employable. [21 Apr 2008]
Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre
News Although we are seeing energy consumption staying static or reducing from an engineering perspective, there was a 12.5 [per cent] increase [in electricity consumption] in our data centres last year. John Killey, head of... [14 Apr 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News Key factors in the choice of location will be local access to science and engineering graduates and government tax breaks. And when I say education facilities I don't mean arts colleges I mean science and... [20 Mar 2008]
M&S gets an IT injection
News The Logicalis Managed Service Centre and onsite teams will provide the M&S IT team with engineering, design and development support for both the wired and wireless networks in M&S' 591 UK stores and regional offices. [02 Nov 2007]
Credit crunch hits tech contractors
News But for contractors looking outside of financial services there is some good news: the public sector and engineering and construction industries have increased their share of IT contractors, with 14 per... [31 Oct 2007]
Olympic demand for IT contractors
News A survey of more than 1,500 IT contractors showed the number of IT contractors in the engineering and construction sector almost doubled in the past 12 months - 10.2 per cent are now gainfully employed in it, compared... [26 Jul 2007]
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