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RSS figures in newsOnline shopping reaches £4.8bn
News Recent British Retail Consortium figures showed high street sales for July were 0.9 per cent lower than the previous month. Online shopping revenues in the UK rose, month-on-month, by 11 per cent to £4.8bn in July. [20 Aug 2008]
Teens losing interest in IT
News The figures show 5,068 people sat the computing A-Level this year, compared to 5,610 in 2007 - with 16.1 per cent achieving an A grade which is a slight increase on 2007 when 15.6 per cent got the top grade. [15 Aug 2008]
Tech jobs and budgets defy economic gloom
News Almost half of IT directors expect to increase IT staffing levels in that period, according to figures released by ReThink Recruitment. The surprising figures contrast drastically with more ominous research by online recruiter Monster, which showed... [15 Aug 2008]
Criminals hack chip and PIN terminals
News This type of fraud increased by 77 per cent last year to £207.6m, according to figures from UK payment industry body Apacs. Criminal gangs are hacking chip and PIN terminals to steal customer card transaction and PIN details. [14 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News The application, supplied by Kronos, will be used to analyse historical trading data; projected sales figures; labour rules; and employee availability to create optimum staffing schedules for each of the mobile phone and consumer electronics... [13 Aug 2008]
Google sites pick up popularity points
News The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online show a slight lift to Google's audience from June to July, up by about one million visitors to an estimated 129 million, the largest population for a parent company of websites in the United... [13 Aug 2008]
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News The amount of spam stuffed into UK inboxes has quadrupled over the past three months, according to figures from an anti-spam company. The average internet user was targeted with more than 30,000 spam emails in the last three months, ClearMyMail... [12 Aug 2008]
Online sales top high street by 2026
News By extrapolating figures from the Office for National Statistics, the company believes the present online shopping market share of 19 per cent will rise to 40 per cent in 2020, equating to sales of £163bn per year and going on to dominate consumer... [12 Aug 2008]
Tech job market beats off credit crunch
News The IT jobs market is resisting the pressures of the looming recession as employment opportunities remain stable, figures from a recruitment firm suggest. IT testing roles saw an 8.3 per cent increase in the year's second quarter and developer... [07 Aug 2008]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News The figures were published on the UK Crypto mailing list by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton on Monday. The figures were not recorded in Hansard, but were confirmed to be correct by the Home Office yesterday. [07 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News Latest figures show that the value of public sector contracts won by Welsh-based companies has risen dramatically from 35 per cent to 49 per cent in only two years. The Welsh Assembly has signed a contract for a procurement tendering web portal... [06 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The government may be pushing employers to embrace more flexible and greener ways of working for their staff but new figures show Whitehall itself lagging some way behind the rest of the country. The figures, which exclude the Home Office, show... [30 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The revelation was made in the wake of figures showing that Paul Gray, chairman of HMRC at the time the discs went missing, received a pay out of £137,591 on quitting last November. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for... [18 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News The results fly in the face of figures in the quarterly index by outsourcing adviser TPI, which shows global spending on outsourcing is on track to break records in 2008, with Europe forging the biggest contracts. [18 Jul 2008]
