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Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News But the survey also suggests sat-nav devices distract and confuse millions of drivers, and encourage a variety of dangerous driving behaviours. Worrying effects on drivers include almost a fifth (19 per cent) of sat-nav users who said it caused... [22 Jul 2008]
Driving Success: The Incredible Power of Company-wide Goal Alignment
White Paper Download the complimentary eGuide, "Driving Success: The Incredible Power of Company-wide Goal Alignment" today. Learn how to get your entire organization working on the critical tasks that will move your business forward. [14 Nov 2007]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News The government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it to temporarily revert from electronic to paper-based processes. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) saw... [04 Apr 2008]
T-Mobile ad 'says using BlackBerry while driving is OK'
News The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a number of complaints that a T-Mobile press promotion encouraged dangerous driving. The advertisement, which ran in The Evening Standard, The Guardian and The Times, publicised T-Mobile's... [18 Jan 2006]
CIO Jury: Risk and innovation key to driving IT value
News Luke Mellors, IT director at the Dorchester Hotel, said innovation is the key to driving value from IT systems and that taking risks is a part of that. UK IT chiefs have hit back at an Accenture report released this week that claims CIOs are... [21 Jul 2005]
Mobile phone users support driving ban
News In August, the government proposed that people who are caught on their mobiles while driving should get points on their licence, and ultimately face a ban. The vast majority of mobile phone owners believe drivers should be banned from using their... [01 Oct 2002]
Facial recognition to be used on driving licences
News The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is to trial facial recognition technology to weed out duplicate, and potentially fraudulent, photograph driving licence records from its database. The DVLA will trial automated facial recognition... [26 Oct 2004]
Online car insurers driving away customers
News Car insurance companies could be driving online customers away by making it too difficult for them to obtain quotes via the web. According to research by online usability consultancy, Webcredible, the quote process is often difficult, forms are... [19 Apr 2007]
IT bosses in the dock over driving offences
News Defying the stereotypes of boy-racer sales staff and flash-Harry IT contractors, it seems the champagne Charlies on the board are much more likely to get spotted driving too fast. Bosses of IT firms are far more likely to be caught speeding than... [03 Sep 2001]
Capita bags £22m deal with Driving Standards Agency
News Capita had signed a six-year, £22m extension to its contract with the Driving Standards Agency (DSA). The extension will see the company managing the public sector agency's hardware and software and will also be charged with developing a system to... [08 Jun 2004]
Cbeyond Communications Driving Rapid Growth of Managed IP Communications Solution Among Small Businesses
White Paper Cbeyond Communications, a member of the Cisco Powered Network Program since 2001, is driving rapid growth of converged voice and data services in the Small-and-Medium Business (SMB) market. Cbeyond's offering has been extensively embraced by a... [06 Jun 2006]
MiFID driving software and services outsourcing
News The need for companies to comply with the EU's update to investment banking regulations, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), which is due to come into force on 1 November, is driving software and services outsourcing in the... [16 Oct 2007]
20,000 Scots flout mobile phone driving ban
News Scottish police are to launch a crackdown on motorists flouting the mobile phone driving ban after revealing that 20,000 drivers have been caught north of the border since the law came into force in December 2003. [17 Oct 2005]
IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value
White Paper Find out how by downloading IT Optimization: Driving Infrastructure Value. The changing (more critical) role of IT: at the heart of business. From email to product development to customer relationship management, IT is now critical to virtually... [21 Sep 2005]
Enterprise Performance Management: Driving Smarter Business
White Paper Basically, driving smarter business. Global competition, investor scrutiny and new regulations are forcing managers to rethink how they systematically monitor and manage performance leading to a high level of interest in performance management. [31 Dec 2006]
