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37,000 women quit tech for family
News BCS Women's Forum manager Dr Jan Peters said the rise in women leaving IT is largely due to a lack of flexibility on the part of employers around career breaks to have children, care for relatives or travel. [14 Nov 2008]
Nortel to slash 1,300 jobs
News Specifically, the company plans to freeze travel, end salary increases, and consolidate upper management, which includes losing at least four top executives. Telecoms equipment maker Nortel Networks has flagged plans to... [11 Nov 2008]
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Video streaming is also allowing remote training of officers in isolated rural or partially manned rural stations and voice and video conferencing has slashed by half the number of staff needing to travel between Perth... [04 Nov 2008]
Force.com breaks out to the web with Sites
News Americans love to travel, it's a history here. Salesforce.com has launched an application that enables developers to build and run external websites on the software as a service company's Force.com platform. [04 Nov 2008]
Three start-ups picked for BlackBerry Partners Fund pie
News The three companies are: Buzzd, which uses GPS to provide city guide information and social networking; Digby, which builds "mobile storefronts" for businesses; and WorldMate, which offers travel information like weather... [30 Oct 2008]
Comparethemarket moves into mortgages
News The company's white-label partners are Simply Business (SME services), PMI (health insurance), Motley Fool (loans), Xelector (utilities) and The Idol (travel insurance). Financial services comparison site... [14 Oct 2008]
Oyster card security vulnerabilities uncovered
News Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers. The details were made public at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday. [08 Oct 2008]
Dublin gets its own Oyster card-a-like
News Dublin is to get its own equivalent of London's Oyster card that will allow public transport travel on a single 'wave and pay' smart card. The prepay e-ticket will be phased in across all public transport from late 2009,... [24 Sep 2008]
EC calls for more cuts on the cost to roam
News The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain tips for better business travel The European Commission is pushing for further cuts to roaming charges in Europe. The Commission on Tuesday proposed that charges for... [24 Sep 2008]
Telepresence tech to cheer Afghan troops
News Back in July, the MoD said it was considering trialling telepresence tech to offset its travel budget. Nato is using high-end videoconferencing tech to boost morale for service men and women serving in Afghanistan. [22 Sep 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... John Chambers
News Throw in eco pressure to reduce travel by deploying high-end comms tech such as telepresence videoconferencing and Cisco's vision of a web-enabled, always-on, near virtual world is practically upon us. [18 Sep 2008]
MP risks arrest for Segway use
News Opik said: "The Segway Personal Transporter.is a revolutionary leap forward for travel, which virtually does away with short-haul journeys in the car. I use my Segway for many journeys, for example to... [09 Sep 2008]
TelePresence saves HSBC money - and airmiles
News HSBC is on course for big savings and to slash its air travel by millions of miles as it begins a global rollout of Cisco's videoconferencing system, TelePresence. TelePresence will be fitted at nine of the bank's... [05 Sep 2008]
Thomas Cook books in agent support system
News Travel company Thomas Cook Group has rolled out a new agent support system across 17,000 users in 800 high street stores and third party travel agents.silicon.com Financial Services Get the latest... [03 Sep 2008]
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News Mobile operator O2 has announced the results of a six-month mobile wallet trial in London - and, despite claims consumers are enamoured of having contactless travel capabilities embedded in their phone, an imminent... [02 Sep 2008]
