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RSS figure in newsHigh fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News The company is revamping the website for fashion retailer Ted Baker to give it a glossier "magazine"-style feel in a five figure deal. Fashion retailers are champing at the bit to embrace software as a service (SaaS)... [14 Nov 2008]
37,000 women quit tech for family
News By 2007, that figure had fallen by six per cent to 192,580. Thousands of women are leaving the IT industry due to a lack of flexibility on the part of their employers. That's the verdict from the British Computer Society... [14 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News Windows 7 has a new programming interface designed to make it a whole lot easier for software to figure out where in the world a PC and its user are located. That should make it easier for a whole new range of... [10 Nov 2008]
IT illiterates 'hold back business'
News While 43 percent of workers between 19 and 21 years of age had failed to get a job done on time through a lack of everyday IT skills, the figure dropped to 36 percent for those aged between 31 and 35, City & Guilds said. [10 Nov 2008]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News LSE's Angell said: "If they do not check the database then fraud will go up as criminals will quickly figure this out and be able to make a copy of the card and change the photo. Opponents of ID cards have renewed their... [07 Nov 2008]
MPs demand more cash for e-crime battle
News That figure is not the end of the story. MPs have called for more money to fund a new e-crime unit and end the image the UK is a "soft touch" on cybercrime. In a parliamentary debate on internet fraud today, MPs said the... [05 Nov 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News As an extremely well-respected figure in the world of chip design, Papermaster might also be stepping in to lead Apple's chip design efforts. One of IBM's top chip executives has agreed to join Apple as a senior... [31 Oct 2008]
Women in IT 'a fifth worse off than men'
News Being kept in the dark about pay is an ongoing problem for women in IT, with 57 per cent of respondents saying they believe their company does not have a transparent pay structure - a figure that has remained the same... [30 Oct 2008]
Web shopping slowdown continues as recession bites
News According to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, year-on-year growth in online shopping in September 2008 reached 14 per cent - a dramatic dip from the year-on-year growth figure of 73.2 per cent in the same... [22 Oct 2008]
£273m in IT projects axed by UK
News The figure was condemned by Public Accounts Committee member Richard Bacon, who labelled it a "shocking reflection on the failure of the government to get the basics [of IT projects] right". The Public Accounts... [20 Oct 2008]
Tech execs: Economic crisis? We've seen worse
News That figure is seven per cent lower than a year ago. Despite turmoil in global markets, two-thirds of senior technology industry executives polled in a new survey say the economic slowdown will not hurt them as badly as... [20 Oct 2008]
'In the future only Jeremy Clarkson will read newspapers'
News Five years later, that figure had dropped to under 450,000. Former News of the World editor Piers Morgan believes print papers will go the way of the dodo, with electronic readers stepping in to take their place. [14 Oct 2008]
3G glitch halts BlackBerry Bold sales
News Orange has temporarily stopped selling the BlackBerry Bold while it tries to figure out a solution to unspecified 3G-related problems on the handset. The operator halted sales of the popular handset last late week. [14 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence to join phishing fight in 2009
News Director of Symantec Research Labs Europe Marc Dacier said: "The idea is to have a machine that is able to figure out what is a phishing message by offering it a bunch of samples. From next year, security researchers... [13 Oct 2008]
Zavvi says it's time to get net-savvy
News However a site relaunch in July 2007 has resulted in triple-figure sales growth year-on-year, on the back of investment reaching seven figures. High street entertainment retailer Zavvi has set its sights on growing its... [09 Oct 2008]
