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CIOs rate MBAs
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse CIOs say MBAs are a useful tool for their jobs - as long as they are studied for the right reasons and combined with plenty of practical experience. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll, the 12-strong panel of IT... [19 Aug 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News Carphone Warehouse has started the roll out of a workforce management system in a £1.5m project across it's European store estate. Carphone Warehouse senior project manager Mercedes Mendes told silicon.com the system is the result of a two-year... [13 Aug 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse The prospect of the UK heading into a full blown recession is forcing some IT chiefs to reassess their tech strategy and investment. For the second time in a row, the silicon.com CIO Jury is hung, this time over the... [04 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News However, a spokesperson for Carphone Warehouse, one such provider, said on Wednesday that BT's announcement was welcome as long as Ofcom guaranteed "a level playing field with other ISPs… in the same way that, initially, before LLU came along, [BT... [17 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. [17 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News The ICO's annual report also revealed it had issued nine enforcement notices for data protection breaches this year to bodies including Carphone Warehouse and Greater Manchester Police, and had carried out 11 prosecutions. [15 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made... [15 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone launch: Tech trouble for O2
News The problem also meant Carphone Warehouse - the other retail outlet for the device in the UK, along with Apple and O2 - had to switch to its own systems. However one iPhone customer, who was second in the queue to buy from a Carphone Warehouse shop... [11 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favour, is likely to be... [09 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone up for grabs online - or is it?
News The 3G iPhone has today been made available to pre-order online from the O2 and Carphone Warehouse websites. O2 said pre-ordering was available from 08:00(BST) this morning, while Carphone Warehouse had a pre-order page up at 11:00(BST). [07 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least... [02 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and existing... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying hardware could give more companies the option to allow employees to choose and run their own devices at work, according to analysts. [30 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse Yahoo! under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution, the company said. [27 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News Simon Post Carphone Warehouse The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for... [27 Jun 2008]
