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RSS signed in newsISPs join file sharing crackdown
News The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which represents thousands of UK record labels - has signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreement with the six largest UK ISPs to help tackle the problem. UK internet service providers have joined forces... [24 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The service is not entirely comprehensive though and not all airlines have signed up.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be the first to launch a search-and-book facility... [23 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News Meanwhile TPI's index found that companies signed $25.6bn of outsourcing contracts in the second quarter of 2008 - the third quarter in a row to break the $20bn mark and the best recorded performance of three consecutive quarters. [18 Jul 2008]
Dunelm Mill signs Epos maintenance deal
News Value home furnishings retailer Dunelm Mill has signed an electronic point of sale maintenance contract to support its store portfolio expansion and drive sales. The retailer has signed up Vista Retail Support to maintain its estate of around 720... [16 Jul 2008]
Red Cross invests in Epos system
News The British Red Cross has signed a deal with Cybertill to install up to 430 electronic point of sale (Epos) terminals as part of a £12m store refresh and expansion over five years. Currently each store at the charity's retail outlets has electronic... [14 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! rejects latest Microsoft deal
News s existing business plus its recently signed commercial agreement with Google has superior financial value and less complexity and risk than the Microsoft/Icahn proposal…The major component of the overall value per share asserted by Microsoft... [14 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News A total of 110 hospitals have signed up to deploy the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) system. Hospitals across England are keeping track of patients and equipment using RFID tagging. More than 50 hospitals are using smart wireless... [09 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News Wiltshire's comments follow a Bata letter of protest sent to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week, signed by the chief executives of British Airways, BMI, EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic. The British Air Transport Association (Bata) said... [07 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News Although he would not reveal figures for the number of enterprise users O2 signed up for the original device, Dowd said "a lot of business customers took it on the consumer tariff" - and, as of last week, 130,000 people had registered interest in... [04 Jul 2008]
Barclays gives online users free security software
News The bank has signed up for two years with the antivirus company, giving the deal a retail value of more than £200m. The software is available to any customers who have signed up to Barclays' online banking service and can be downloaded from the site. [01 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. Back in March, Nationwide signed a multimillion pound deal with SAP to use the German software giant's banking platform... [30 Jun 2008]
Europe embraces outsourcing in 2008
News European companies signed more than a third of all outsourcing deals during the first quarter of the year. EU business accounted for 36 per cent of all contracts signed according to Everest Research, with most contracts for the outsourcing of IT... [27 Jun 2008]
Newsagent Martin McColl signs £4m VPN contract
News Newsagent Martin McColl has signed a £4m contract with comms specialist Azzurri for an enterprise-wide IP VPN. The network will connect the retailer's 1,300-store estate and a number of third party suppliers, which provide services such as mobile... [25 Jun 2008]
UK CIOs beaten to boardroom by French
News More than a third (35 per cent) of respondents said IT is called on to help deliver strategies only after they have already been determined, while just 13 per cent said business strategies are only signed off if IT has committed to them. [19 Jun 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News An extradition order was signed in July 2006 by the then home secretary John Reid. Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. [13 Jun 2008]
