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£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News Avon and Somerset Police have also joined Southwest One and up to 35 local bodies could opt to have the joint venture run some of their services. Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts ... [06 Aug 2008]
'Cool' new rival set to challenge Google?
News The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Microsoft, the number three US player in web search has been seeking to join forces with number two Yahoo! A start-up... [28 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News UK internet service providers have joined forces with the UK record industry to crack down on illegal file sharing. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which represents thousands of UK record... [24 Jul 2008]
Nortel ditches WiMax in 4G race
News The company earlier this year joined forces with Clearwire and several other companies including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Intel in a $12bn joint venture to build a nationwide WiMax network. Telecom... [16 Jun 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide... [22 Apr 2008]
BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch
News joined forces in 2005 to provide BT Broadband customers with Yahoo! Several thousand BT Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo! security update. Users... [31 Mar 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Web giant AOL and entertainment company Time Warner joined forces in 2000 in a massive deal worth $164bn. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! If the deal... [04 Feb 2008]
Intel waves goodbye to OLPC
News The Classmate PC was one of the sources of friction between Negroponte and Intel before they joined forces in July. The news, first reported yesterday by The Wall Street Journal in an email alert, comes... [04 Jan 2008]
Businesses call for police cyber crime unit
News Members of silicon.com's CIO Jury panel of IT users have now joined calls for a centralised police computer crime body. The Metropolitan Police Service is also pushing for a national computer crime unit that would act as... [08 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News Zennström, who helped start Skype in 2003, has joined forces with Skype co-founder Janus Friis to start an internet television service called Joost. Don't call it a bust just yet but it's fair to say... [02 Oct 2007]
London gets free wi-fi network
News The free-hotspot.com group and wi-fi network infrastructure company MeshHopper have joined forces to offer free wi-fi access to businesses and the public along a 22km stretch of the River Thames. A free... [16 Jul 2007]
BBC beds YouTube in web 2.0 love-in
News The BBC and YouTube have joined forces to bring specially commissioned content and news clips to the Google-owned video site. The deal will see a number of channels - BBC, BBC Worldwide and BBC World -... [02 Mar 2007]
Amnesty liberates donations
News Vodafone also joined forces with Citigroup to offer an international money transfer system earlier this month with the GSM Association leading a similar, separate project. Amnesty International UK is... [27 Feb 2007]
Vodafone, Citigroup team up for m-payments
News Vodafone has joined forces with Citigroup to offer an international money transfer service. The new service - due to be officially launched at the end of the month - will let Vodafone customers in the UK... [12 Feb 2007]
HP, Microsoft hint at services deal
News In the consumer arena, HP was among the early partners for Microsoft's Media Center PC effort and has also joined forces with the software giant on many other emerging technologies. HP and Microsoft are... [13 Dec 2006]
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