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News Griffin said: "Despite scoring very well in terms of costs, Dalian has not scored as well in terms of skills and capabilities, and lacks the strength of infrastructure that some other competing locations have. [27 Jun 2008]
Miserable at work? Live in London? Join the club
News Londoners are the most miserable at work, says a survey by HireScores, a recruitment agency-scoring website. More than 70 per cent of the capital's workers are already thinking about getting a new job from day one, while only 11 per cent of... [21 Apr 2008]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News The report says the VMOs can also help focus spending by assessing the account's importance to the supplier and drive supplier accountability by scoring vendor performance. An increasing number of companies buying IT products and services are... [27 Mar 2008]
BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes
News Tiscali moves up from third place in 2006, scoring well on its billing process. In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study, the company scored 626 points out of a possible 1,000 - 42 points... [06 Dec 2007]
GCSE IT entries down by 10,000
News In the battle of the sexes, girls convincingly beat boys with 69.3 per cent scoring A* to C grades, compared to 61.5 per cent of boys. The number of students sitting the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) GCSE fell by around 10,000... [24 Aug 2007]
Supercomputer to power F1 team BMW-Sauber
News The team is heading into the 2007 season with the aim of scoring even more podiums than in 2006 (when they managed two) and is looking to Albert 2 to help them achieve this. Formula One team BMW-Sauber has revealed the secret weapon in its attempt... [04 Jan 2007]
TalkTalk is UK's least-liked broadband provider
News Telewest came out top of the rankings, which are based on responses from 1,438 customers across the UK, for the second year running, scoring highest on performance and reliability, and customer service and technical support. [05 Dec 2006]
Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste
News The scoring is weighted more heavily on the use of toxic substances in production rather than criteria on recycling because until the use of harmful substances is eliminated in products, it is impossible to secure 'safe', toxic-free recycling... [29 Aug 2006]
UK loves Microsoft more than the BBC
News Telecoms also made a showing with Nokia scoring a 12th placing and BT in at 21. Think of your favourite brand. If you're from the UK, apparently, you're most likely to be thinking of Microsoft. According to research carried out for branding... [20 Jul 2006]
Winners and losers - users' perceptions of tech's big names
News HP came third in the survey of IT directors' perception of IT vendors, with almost a third (28 per cent) scoring the hardware, software and services giant a positive 'one' or 'two'. Dell has the fourth most positive image among the 267 IT directors... [22 Jun 2006]
HSBC invests in business analytics
News HSBC will implement the Strategy Management business rules engine product to help staff consistently deploy scoring models, portfolio segmentation and other actions to improve risk management. Banking group HSBC has adopted new business analytics... [17 May 2006]
UK storms up the e-gov rankings
News Income-generating public services reach a level of 88 per cent while services that deal with the administrative obligation of citizens and business (registrations and permits), and those where citizens and businesses receive value in return for... [09 Mar 2005]
Ellison rehashes old themes
News Scoring points for originality appears to have taken a back seat for Ellison, who is the midst of managing a takeover battle with software rival PeopleSoft, weighing other buyout targets and hunting for a professional football team to buy after... [09 Dec 2004]
Oracle's rep damaged by PeopleSoft farce
News Other companies scoring relatively low in the image department in July's survey were CA, Microsoft and Germany's SAP. Oracle's stumbling and stuttering takeover bid for PeopleSoft has fuelled negative perceptions of the software company among... [09 Sep 2004]
UK IT staff say 'show me the money'
News Only the UK and Singapore had basic salary scoring higher than the other factors. Money, not work-life balance, still matters the most for UK IT staff when it comes to new jobs, according to a worldwide recruitment survey. [06 Jul 2004]
