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RSS germany in newsTurquoise trading platform begins to settle
News Investment-bank-owned share trading platform Turquoise, which went live last week, is expected to complete the first clearing and settlement of trades in the UK and Germany in the next two days. The cash equity trading platform aims to offer... [19 Aug 2008]
Bank job losses: offshoring not to blame
News Other factors - such as the reduction of bank branches in Germany or the catching up in financial development in some eastern European countries - apparently dominate the relation. The use of offshoring is not the main contributor to job losses in... [18 Aug 2008]
UK execs looking for jobs on the continent
News Only France and Germany recorded larger migrations, with 14 per cent and 12 per cent of their senior execs seeking a better life elsewhere, respectively. Senior execs in the UK are looking to take jobs abroad to further their careers and escape the... [15 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]
Yahoo!, HP, Intel meet in the cloud
News The three have partnered with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as the National Science Foundation. [30 Jul 2008]
UK trails in open source race
News This compares with almost a quarter (24 per cent) of businesses using open source in France, 21 per cent in Germany and 17 per cent in both Canada and the US. But according to Forrester Research, the UK is joint top (with Germany and the US) for... [14 Jul 2008]
Only one in 10 Brits recycles old mobiles
News The survey is based on responses from people in 13 countries: Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Russia, Sweden, UK, United Arab Emirates and USA. Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle their old mobile phones. [09 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News Germany is rated as having the greenest IT, with only 30 per cent of German IT execs believing their company could do more on environmental issues. UK businesses are the worst in Europe for embracing green IT say tech directors. [08 Jul 2008]
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
News McCabe said: "Recently I was looking at a [service] out of Germany which was image recognition on a phone. Open source software will mean the end of proprietary phone and software bundles, and create universal compatibility and lower the cost of... [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News In the other three nations surveyed, the tech seized the imagination of around a third of consumers: France (34 per cent), the UK (34 per cent), and Germany (33 per cent). Most people in Europe are still blissfully unaware of what a femtocell is. [23 Jun 2008]
Mobile phones key to paperless air travel
News Jim Peters, CTO of Sita said some such services are already available to airline passengers, such as paperless travel on some routes in Germany, Japan and Norway. Mobile phones could be a godsend to the airline industry - saving time and therefore... [20 Jun 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Roadrunner, the world's fastest supercomputer, can perform one thousand trillion calculations per second. [19 Jun 2008]
UK CIOs beaten to boardroom by French
News Bottom of the heap for boardroom promotion is Sweden, where just 26 per cent of CIOs sit at the top table, followed by Germany (42 per cent) and Spain (44 per cent). CIOs in the UK are far less likely to be appointed to the board than their... [19 Jun 2008]
Nato fires up cyber defences
News Seven Nato member states have signed documents for the formal establishment of the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence: Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain. A Nato cyber defence centre of excellence has been... [16 May 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News Skype's appeal argued that the GPL licence was not valid in Germany, claiming GPL breaks the country's antitrust laws. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux... [12 May 2008]
