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Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Under the terms of the new contracts Capgemini will retain responsibility for managing the mainframe computers that support core steel production, supply chain, stockholding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing at Corus' main UK manufacturing...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

Greggs tucks into centralised accounting model

News The product will interface to our existing manufacturing and Epos applications helping us to further automate our accounting processes. Greggs the bakers has signed a contract for financials software from Coda worth £600,000 in the first year...

Tags: accounting, coda, greggs

[10 Apr 2008]

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland

News RBS does not use the CIO title for executives and Lister will join as chief architect, reporting in to the bank's group manufacturing unit, which provides centralised back-office services such as IT for other RBS banking and insurance brands...

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

[01 Apr 2008]

EC examines Nokia bid for Navteq

News The operation raises some issues similar to those involved in the proposed acquisition of Tele Atlas by TomTom, a Dutch company manufacturing portable navigation devices and selling navigation software for mobile phones, the Commission said.

Tags: eu, ec, navteq, nokia

[31 Mar 2008]

Motorola to split in two

News Motorola is currently in third place worldwide in the handset-manufacturing business, behind Nokia and Samsung. Motorola is to split into two companies, following months of speculation about the future of its handset division.

Tags: motorola, handset, division, mobile

[27 Mar 2008]

Windows Vista SP1 finally a go

News The pack was released to manufacturing on 4 February. The first service pack for Windows Vista has been released. Vista Service Pack 1 went onto Microsoft's Download Center website on Monday, fulfilling Microsoft's claim it would be made available...

Tags: vista, microsoft, sp1, operating system

[19 Mar 2008]

Asus to put Windows XP on two-thirds of Eee PCs

News Worth around $8.5bn, Asus separated this year its branded business from its contract manufacturing operations, which make laptops for Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo. Separately, Shih said Asus was considering moving some of the firm's contract...

Tags: asus, windows xp, eee pc, low cost

[14 Mar 2008]

Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall

News Darling said that the UK was second only to the US for the strength of its knowledge-based industries and that high tech manufacturing had grown by 30 per cent in the last decade. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public...

Tags: budget, public sector, sme, innovation

[12 Mar 2008]

Intel and SAP cooking up treat for SMEs

News SAP said in a statement: "The offering targets midsize companies in the manufacturing, service and trade industries and directly addresses the demands in these market segments for quick and easy implementation, and tailored yet scalable solutions...

Tags: sap, server, intel, hosted

[04 Mar 2008]

Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation

News Manufacturing these cables, and then snaking them around the Tacc to link up computers, proved tougher than expected, he said. After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week.

Tags: sun, ibm, supercomputer, chips

[14 Feb 2008]

UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet

News Developing a programme of guidance for its members on improving the energy efficiency of their business and manufacturing process. The UK technology industry has just 12 years to slash its rapidly growing carbon footprint if it is to help the world...

Tags: green, environment, it, electronics

[12 Feb 2008]

Vista SP1 finally ready for manufacture

News Ballmer said: "Both products have released to manufacturing today [Monday], which is good news. Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told...

Tags: vista, steve ballmer, microsoft, sp1

[05 Feb 2008]

India top choice for UK outsourcing

News We are seeing a kind of Industrial Revolution sweep through the services landscape in the same way it did with manufacturing. India is now outstripping competitors worldwide for cost and service quality and is riding the crest of a revolution in...

Tags: china, outsourcing, india, interfaces

[11 Jan 2008]

One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru

News In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to start producing the green-and-white computer in its new Changshu manufacturing centre, which is located northwest of Shanghai. One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC...

Tags: olpc, nicholas negroponte, $100 laptop, laptop

[03 Dec 2007]

$100 laptop production gets underway

News This week, Taiwan's Quanta Computer started producing the computer in its Changshu manufacturing centre. Quanta Computer has recently increased its manufacturing capacity and said XO production will increase over time.

Tags: $100 laptop, china, olpc, production

[07 Nov 2007]

IT skills 'vital for UK's future'

News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event and referring to non-manual skills such as those required in IT, Triesman said: "I'm not sure the government has been caught out but one thing we have let slip by is by concentrating on the change in the...

Tags: it skills, e-skills uk, it grads, skills gap

[29 Oct 2007]

UK passports face massive price hike

News The prototype ePassport and the manufacturing process were both subject to substantial testing, and the agency gave itself enough time for a progressive rollout rather than a big-bang switch from digital to ePassport.

Tags: public accounts committee, id cards, epassports

[10 Oct 2007]

Chips to weed out fake cigarettes?

News The three members of the Tobacco Manufacturers Association (TMA) - British American Tobacco, Gallaher and Imperial - and Phillip Morris have been manufacturing cigarette packets with the security feature since 1 October.

Tags: crime, contactless, counterfeit, hmrc

[08 Oct 2007]

Vista SP1 'lacks wow factor', says Microsoft

News As the beta continues, more users will be invited but the numbers will not match the estimated five million that tried the operating system prior to RTM (release to manufacturing) last summer. If you've been waiting for Windows Vista SP1 to come...

Tags: microsoft, sp1, vista

[04 Oct 2007]

Google sniffing round UK wireless spectrum?

News Ongoing reports from Taiwan continue to suggest the Gphone is under development, with HTC marked as a possible manufacturing partner. Google may be considering bidding for wireless spectrum in the UK after regulator Ofcom proposed the...

Tags: spectrum, ofcom, gphone, google

[24 Sep 2007]

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