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News It's where the most interesting and influential products are being developed, and more importantly, many open-source projects are filled with people who are also connected to companies that pay their engineers. [23 Oct 2008]
£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News He said council staff transferring to Southwest One are "guaranteed 10 years of employment" but added that many posts were likely to not be filled after people departed. Two local councils and IBM face an employment... [06 Aug 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News But Unite warned of higher levels of redundancies in the following years, as many contractor posts will have already been filled by redeployments. Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create... [14 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News In an invective-filled letter to Yahoo, Icahn used terms like "deceitful", "self-destructive", "misleading" and "insulting to shareholders" for moves by Yang and the board to retain employees in a severance plan likely... [05 Jun 2008]
Nasa Mars probe safely touches down
News Cracks in the soil show that surface is "active" because no dust or sand has filled in the cracks. The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded... [27 May 2008]
Top IT job at NHS split into two
News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com Public Sector [28 Apr 2008]
Tech to tackle India's poverty
News Change is stirring in the heart of rural India as computer-filled business process outsourcing (BPO) units spring up next to rough shacks, and village patients receive diagnoses from doctors hundreds of miles away via... [23 Apr 2008]
India's Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs
News When this is filled the plan is to open a new office (probably in the next one to two years) which will also have room for 500 staff. Indian IT giant Wipro is set to create hundreds of new jobs in the UK by taking... [20 Mar 2008]
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News The company affixes wireless transceivers to hydrogen- or helium-filled weather balloons and releases them so they travel to between 65,000 and 100,000 feet. Broadband may be as common, and almost as cheap, as chips in... [06 Mar 2008]
Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News PC Tools malware analyst, Sergei Shevchenko, said in a statement: "The vacuum left by the RBN has been filled by other malware distributors. Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other... [21 Feb 2008]
Jargon-filled software licences baffle consumers
News Consumers are being forced to accept software licence agreements full of confusing jargon that are unfairly biased in favour of the vendors. Of 25 software packages surveyed by the National Consumer Council (NCC), 14 had no mention in... [20 Feb 2008]
O2 recruits an iPhone army
News In all, 700 new customer services jobs are being created by the iPhone - with other posts being filled by existing staff. The lure of Apple's iPhone may be driving UK consumers into a frenzy of anticipation ahead of... [07 Nov 2007]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News The participants met a prospective employer, filled out the CRB disclosure application form and had their identity authenticated by a counter-signatory. The volunteers piloted two potential online services developed by... [01 Oct 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Banks hardest hit by staff crisis
News Such shortages can be adequately filled by hiring contractors, according to the majority of respondents from the FS, public and retail sectors. The IT skills shortage is hitting the financial services industry hardest. [28 Aug 2007]
Wireless power has techies beaming
News Imagine a room with 100 identical wine glasses, each filled with wine up to a different level. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lit a 60 watt light bulb from a power source two metres away and... [08 Jun 2007]
