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RSS forced in newsCIOs scouring the jobs pages
News UK CIOs are still keen on landing that next big role but there are signs more of them are being forced to sit tight and stay put as economic gloom casts a shadow over the jobs market. The annual CIO survey from recruitment company Harvey Nash has... [19 Aug 2008]
Turquoise trading platform begins to settle
News However, the platform was forced to delay launch because it had difficulty in acquiring a suitable trading engine, according to reports. Investment-bank-owned share trading platform Turquoise, which went live last week, is expected to complete the... [19 Aug 2008]
SAP users air support gripes
News He suggested many Group members do not want or need this level of support and so are "reacting negatively to having a new support product and the associated increase in costs forced upon them". The UK and Ireland SAP User Group has expressed... [25 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Instances of drivers being 'forced' to make an illegal turn or hesitate at junctions were highlighted in the study carried out by Direct Line insurers. Sat-navs not only drive motorists to distraction, they've also been driving silicon.com readers... [24 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The Trust was recently forced to resort to selling off broken roof slates from the historic house to souvenir hunters in an attempt to raise funds. The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II, is... [24 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News According to Capgemini UK head of consulting for retail Mike Petevinos, stores will be forced to change their business models as online shopping becomes more influential, integrating the two channels more fully. [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft slams Google-Yahoo! ad deal
News estimates the deal could generate will come out of the pockets of US businesses as they will be forced to pay higher prices for ads they already buy from Yahoo! Microsoft has said the proposed deal between Google and Yahoo! [16 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning. Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working... [14 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has overspent on two IT projects which has forced it to rethink some of its development plans. The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m... [07 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News All of a sudden, every brand will be forced to register their name at .shop, .buy and .london to stop anyone else getting it. The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned. [30 Jun 2008]
Credit crunch boosts outsourcing
News Many institutions which have so far ignored the benefits of outsourcing are being forced to revisit it because of financial constraints and liquidity problems. The credit crunch is predicted to drive greater demand for outsourcing in the financial... [18 Jun 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News Difficulties with the system meant binmen were repeatedly forced to override the system to get the bin emptied and finish the round. The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using microchipped bins has been dumped. [17 Jun 2008]
Nortel ditches WiMax in 4G race
News This was a major blow for the telco equipment maker, which instead has been forced to focus on carriers in emerging markets. Telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks is ditching its WiMax business to focus on a more popular 4G wireless technology. [16 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Companies are being forced to deal with scalability to handle the increasing flood of content, video and photos. Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US, said: "The next 10 years of... [11 Jun 2008]
Publishers demand up to €49m from Google
News According to an Associated Press report Tuesday, the group, called Copiepresse, said it has sent a legal summons to Google asking that the company appear in court in September to decide whether it should be forced to pay Copiepresse between &euro... [28 May 2008]
