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RSS roseUK officials going snoop crazy
News But a separate report by the chief surveillance commissioner, Sir Christopher Rose, criticises techniques used by local authorities for misunderstanding the concept of proportionality. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private... [23 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News A Forrester Research survey shows that the number of people viewing or managing photos on their computers rose from 26 per cent of survey respondents in 2002 to 47 per cent in 2007. That opens the door to a new market, one that for now remains a... [21 Jul 2008]
Legal Giant Norton Rose LLP Centralises Document Digitising With ABBYY Recognition Server
White Paper Norton Rose LLP is an international legal practice with a network of offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The challenge for the Norton Rose LLP IT team was to find an OCR solution for their system which met all of their requirements. [18 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Usage rose dramatically and levelled off in April when it became harder to schedule meetings in the few slots left available. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could spare you a journey, says Stewart Baines. [30 Jun 2008]
Oracle sees strong software profits
News During that three-month period, revenue from new software licences rose 27 per cent to $3.14bn, and revenue from software licence updates and product support rose 25 per cent to $2.83bn. Software licensing drove a healthy increase in revenue for... [26 Jun 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News The stock dropped even as RIM posted first-quarter earnings that rose sharply from a profit of $223.2m, or 39 cents a share, a year earlier. RIM posted a profit outlook yesterday that fell short of analyst expectations, sending its shares eight per... [26 Jun 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks break down
News Microsoft shares rose more than four per cent as investors showed relief that the company would not be paying too high a price for a deal they considered risky - even though its biggest rivals on the web aimed to work together. [13 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Gordon Lovell-Read, who has just left Siemens UK where he was CIO and director of corporate business technology, has a programming background but rose to the role of CIO after spending 17 years at HP in a number of senior management posts across... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the ladder to become CIO for the retailer's US business where he led a major change programme, replacing all their core systems. [11 Jun 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study At Zurich, customer satisfaction dipped to about 75 per cent in 2005 and the number of major system outages hit almost 70 per month in 2004 before performance rose, with satisfaction hitting 90 per cent and outages dropping to four-per-month this... [10 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up But love is a rose with many barbs and those barbs are irking our country-dwellers more than greenfly and bypasses. Now, there's no denying we love our broadband in the UK. The problem is that broadband services aren't great. [06 Jun 2008]
Microsoft-HP deal plans to boost Live Search
News Research firm comScore said Google's US web search market share rose to a record 61.5 per cent in April, while Yahoo! Microsoft has struck a deal with the world's largest PC maker, HP, to place a toolbar on new PCs that leads to its Live Search... [03 Jun 2008]
Specialist Women's Healthcare Provider Implements New Information Management System
White Paper The number of servers storing data rose and increasingly employees found it time consuming to locate information distributed around the network. Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is England's largest specialist women's healthcare provider. [31 May 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News Online sales at Mothercare rose by more than 78 per cent over the last financial year, hitting £85.5m. The children's clothing and equipment retailer said online sales from its Direct in Home website were up 19.7 per cent to £49.9m over the... [22 May 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment The Arctic Monkeys rose to fame through digital word of mouth and online marketing. From free downloads to albums you can pay as much as you like for, the internet has put traditional record companies in a spin. [22 May 2008]
