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News UK businesses need to capitalise more on the competitive advantages offered by IT, according to a new report into the "performance code" of successful organisations. The Work Foundation study of 3,000 UK firms, Cracking the Performance Code - How... [20 Jul 2005]
Universal Music bid takes Apple away from its core business
News Apple fans take note, the Mac manufacturer appears to be distancing itself from its computing business with the mooted purchase of Universal Music - the largest of the record industry's notorious 'big five'. [14 Apr 2003]
Intel develops teraflop-chip
News Intel has developed a teraflop chip with supercomputer-like performance but has "no plans" to bring the 80-core chip to market. The super-chip - about the size of a fingernail - has the ability to deliver trillions of calculations per second... [12 Feb 2007]
UK companies suffering database meltdown
News Nearly half of UK companies are expecting their core databases to suffer serious performance degradation over the coming year as business users demand more from them. Forty-six per cent of UK companies say they are likely to suffer inadequate... [15 Jan 2003]
Metal manufacturer struggles through Q1
News Elkem, the world's largest supplier of silicon metals for manufacturing, is looking to move outside its core market after profits fell 19 per cent in the first quarter of this year. The company said its core markets will remain weak, with prices at... [21 Apr 1999]
Linux flaw exposes crash code threat
News Linux users have been urged to fix a flaw in the core component of the open-source operating system, following the public release of code that could be used to crash Linux systems. On Monday, staffers associated with Red Hat's community-based... [17 Jun 2004]
Internet service provider in profit shocker
News KPNQwest, ISP and hosting joint venture between Dutch telco KPN and US carrier Qwest, made a surprise core profit for the second quarter of 2001. While it's a profit before interest, tax, and debt amortisation and not actually a net profit, the... [25 Jul 2001]
Intel: 'Two cores are better than one'
News Intel has said it plans to move quickly to chips that contain two processors each - sometimes called dual-core processors - rolling them out for desktops, notebooks and servers at various times during 2005. [14 May 2004]
Atos Origin buys SchlumbergerSema for E1.3bn
News Atos Origin has bought the core IT services of SchlumbergerSema in a E1.3bn cash and shares deal, as first revealed by silicon.com last week. Andrew Gould, chairman and CEO of Schlumberger said the sale will allow the firm to concentrate on its... [22 Sep 2003]
Half of small firms want to ditch Windows for Linux
News One in four small companies are testing Linux, and half of them hope to use it as their core operating system in place of Windows, according to a survey by IBM. The survey published by IBM claims that one in four companies with between 100 and 1... [08 Dec 2003]
Nottingham Building Society to rip and replace systems
News Nottingham Building Society is about to begin final testing of a replacement core system for its loans business ahead of rollout over the next few months. Nottingham Building Society IT head Jack Cutts said the decision to upgrade core technology... [11 Mar 2008]
Education reform aims to boost UK's ICT skills
News Core ICT training is at the heart of government proposals to bridge the UK's skills gap and turn out better qualified and more highly skilled school leavers into the workplace. The plan is to have four levels of a new diploma based around 'main... [19 Mar 2004]
ITNet wins £17.3m air traffic outsourcing deal
News The UK's cash-strapped air traffic services organisation is to outsource its non-core IT systems to ITNet in a £17.3m five-year deal. Historical computer problems with NATS' core operational systems have been compounded over the last two years by... [02 Sep 2003]
LogicaCMG and IDX bag £70m 'hospital of the future' deal
News LogicaCMG and IDX Systems have won a £70m contract to build and manage the core technology infrastructure behind the 'hospital of the future' in London. As part of the ten-year deal IDX's LastWord electronic patient record system will be... [22 Sep 2003]
Sony Europe signs up with Indian outsourcer
News Sony Europe is outsourcing several of its core IT development functions to India-based Satyam Computer Services. According to Satyam, the move will "enable the Sony Infrastructure Services team to focus on core activities, such as platform... [11 Dec 2006]
