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RSS rac in newsNorwich Union automates HR enquiries
News The system has been so successful, Norwich Union will roll it out to its RAC subsidiary by the end of the year. Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier for staff to find out... [15 Oct 2007]
CIO Jury: Bosses back mobile driving ban
News David Supple, director of IT and creative services at Ecotec, said: "We have made everyone sign a policy right from the start of getting a phone, and this did include advice from the RAC on mobile calls - we have now... [01 Mar 2007]
Use tech not your car, businesses told
News The RAC Foundation is urging more people to consider working from home to cut CO2 emissions, reduce congestion and save businesses money. According to RAC Foundation research, around 50 per cent of UK... [26 Oct 2006]
Norwich Union axes 321 call centre jobs
News This was increased to 7,800 following the acquisition of RAC in March 2005 by Aviva, Norwich Union's parent company. Norwich Union is to axe 321 jobs as it closes its customer services centre in Liverpool. [26 Jul 2006]
20,000 Scots flout mobile phone driving ban
News A recent NOP survey of motorists in association with the RAC found that drivers who use a mobile phone come second only to motorists who drive too close to the vehicle in front in the most annoying motorway habits. [17 Oct 2005]
RAC software development motors to India
News The RAC is to offshore some of its software development to India as part of a restructuring of its IT operations. The jobs affected are in the business systems division, which supports application design and development... [22 Feb 2005]
5 years ago: Marks & Spencer to sell cars online
News Plays such as AAbuyacar.com, Autobytel.co.uk, Carbusters.co.uk, Jamjar, RAC Car Partner and Virgin Cars all had their ups and downs, a frequent down being consumers - for such a large purchase - still typically wanting... [26 Oct 2004]
Oracle profits up but revenue disappoints Wall Street
News And its clustering software, Real Application Clusters (RAC), serves as the basis for the 10g grid features. Our RAC sales have grown more than 60 per cent this quarter and about 60 per cent for the... [16 Jun 2004]
Oracle turns in results ahead of expectations
News Sales of the RAC option rose 86 per cent, Ellison said. He attributed that growth to Oracle's real application clustering, or RAC, option, which is a technology that lets customers cluster databases... [12 Mar 2004]
Oracle ships 10g database and throws in price cuts
News The database giant also dropped the entry price point for the Real Application Clusters (RAC) feature to $15,000 per processor, the price of Oracle's midlevel database offering, called Oracle Standard Edition. [04 Feb 2004]
Walkie-talkie time: Orange wants you to TalkNow
News For now, Orange is in trials with customers such as IBM, Pfizer, the RAC and Shell, and won't announce pricing for another month or more. Orange has announced a push-to-talk (PTT) offering, aiming first at business users... [13 Jan 2004]
Egg tops list of supermodel call centres
News Besides Egg, the runners up were Coventry Building Society (in Coventry), EDF Energy (Sunderland), Fujitsu (Staines), Halifax (Leeds), JD Williams (Manchester), Kwik Fit Insurance (Edinburgh), LloydsTSB (Bournemouth), Marks & Spencer... [13 Nov 2003]
Grid computing overhyped says Fiorina
News A nice RAC doesn't get you very far," Fiorina said, eliciting some laughs from the mostly male audience. Grid computing has sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at this week's OracleWorld... [12 Sep 2003]
RAC aims to save £1m on mobile communications
News The RAC is targeting savings of £1m and improved customer service by consolidating its mobile communications with Orange. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but the contract will run across... [19 Jun 2003]
Drivers offer to lay down their mobiles
News According to the findings of an RAC survey out today, 91 per cent of motorists back the proposed government ban on hand-held mobile phone use in cars. A huge majority of motorists would support a ban on the use of mobile... [28 Oct 2002]
